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Letters
Salon Staff
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Readers respond to Jack Brown's "Mexico's Music Business Meltdown."
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The ugly skies: Readers' letters have made me even more depressed about the state of American flying. Plus: A Hooters Air sighting!
Can Bush be toppled?
Joan Walsh, Mark Follman, Laura McClure
In Part 3 of our series, Tom Hayden, Paul Berman and Ross Mirkarimi say yes -- but they disagree about whether the Green Party should be accommodated or destroyed.
“Bangkok 8” by John Burdett
Laura Miller
A contagious murder mystery with sex, violence and a beguiling take on the Thai way of looking at the world.
“The War of the Flowers” by Tad Williams
Andrew Leonard
This stand-alone fantasy adds the plight of the modern American man to its mix of heroic goblins, marauding dragons and evil fairy lords.
G-strings and Ph.D.s
Virginia Vitzthum
Katherine Frank stripped, interviewed her customers and then wrote a thesis about male desire.
An artistic orphan in the big city
David Ng
Amir Naderi, who brought Iranian cinema to the world's attention in the '80s with the international hit "The Runner," has been making films in New York since 1993. Who knew?
Should Democrats get mad — or get even?
Michelle Goldberg
The very mention of George W. Bush's name sends progressives into paroxysms of rage. But political veterans warn that anger has to be channeled into a winning campaign.
Idiocy of the week
Andrew Sullivan
It was originally reported that 170,000 priceless artifacts were looted from Iraq's national museum. That number now stands at 33. Will overeager Bush critics issue corrections?
“I’m a voting adult and it’s my job to fix it”
Joy Lanzendorfer
DIY goddess Ani DiFranco on political responsibility in the Bush era, the "lying, whoring media," life in New Orleans and her bottomless pit of self-loathing.
Mexico’s music business meltdown
Jack Brown
Pirates armed with CD burners and cheap discs are bringing the industry to its knees. The U.S. could be next.
Behind the fall of Raines
Eric Boehlert
Scandal-scarred and resented by a newsroom fed up with his arrogant style, the top New York Times editor finally pays the price.
Let us commence
Anne Lamott
At the Berkeley graduation I told the students that the secret to success was simple -- ignore your parents' expectations, give money to the ACLU, and find out the truth about who you are.
The Times’ self-consuming rage
Eric Boehlert
A month after Jayson Blair, the nation's greatest newspaper remains mired in controversy.
Bad behavior
Cary Tennis
I found my son looking at online porn and he said, "Dad does it, and he says, don't tell Mom we do it."
A Greek tragedy starring the Osbournes
Daniel Kraus
Director Andrew Jarecki talks about his explosive documentary "Capturing the Friedmans," in which a family's home videos follow its own destruction in a bizarre child-abuse case.
Abuse and neglect
David Tuller
Domestic violence occurs as often among gay couples as among hetereosexuals, according to a new study, but victims of same-sex battering do not have equal protection under the law.
Kilroy’s still here
Sean Penn
Osama bin Laden's agenda is being furthered by our fear, as we hack away at the soul of our own civil liberties.
Pillaging the cartoon universe
Scott Thill
Fred Flintstone as a mob boss! Yogi's pal BooBoo as a terrorist! Jonny Quest as the subject of a gay child-custody battle! All these outrages and more can be found on Cartoon Network's hilarious, hallucinatory "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law."
The never ending war over slavery
Louise Witt
A new exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy tells of slaves who supported slavery. But if former Gov. Doug Wilder's dream comes true, the nation's first slavery museum will tell a different -- and harsher -- story.
Would Hegel have played “Pac-Man”?
Andrew Leonard
"Lucky Wander Boy," a novel about a video gamer's quest for meaning, gives humorous insights into minds shaped by the Mario Bros.
“Best Friends” by Thomas Berger
Andrew O'Hehir
Broke, overweight Sam and rich, studly Roy have been pals for 20 years, even if they don't have much in common anymore. Then the wife gets involved.
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