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My three dads
King Kaufman
Kevin Sweeney never really knew his father, who died young. In the memoir "Father Figures," he describes picking a trio of replacements to teach him how to be a man.
Baghdad chronicles
Michelle Goldberg
In a city where porn, drunkenness and radical Islam are on the rise, savvy students who despise both Bush and Saddam are putting out Iraq's only independent newspaper.
Catwoman reloaded
Charles Taylor
A new comic scrapbook shows why the feline in the shiny black bodysuit has the power to undo even the most rock-jawed superstuds.
The world press on the crisis of democracy
Compiled by Laura McClure
Haaretz says freedom is imperiled in Israel, and Arundhati Roy writes it's under siege in the U.S.
Vigilante injustice
Max Blumenthal
Arizona militia members, a Colorado Republican and a national group with white supremacist ties have made a remote stretch of the Mexico border a flash point for anti-immigrant hostility.
The hunger artist
Laura Miller
Caroline Knapp's final book is both the smartest anorexia memoir ever written and a fascinating journey along the tortuous pathways of female desire.
The Fix
Karen Croft
Neil Young says Bush plays with Tonka Toys, Val Kilmer says he wants to play a porn star, and Leo and Brad will always have Casablanca ... Plus: Guess what? Prince is into kinky sex talk!
The unthinkable made real
Charles Taylor
Fox's tough and complicated "24" ends its terrifying season by reminding us that the political nightmares of the last few years -- the Clinton impeachment, Bush vs. Gore, 9/11 -- really happened.
Can the Web beat Big Media?
Farhad Manjoo
FCC czar Michael Powell says new technologies will let diversity flourish even as giant corporations consolidate their control over TV and newspapers. Dream on.
“They are changing themselves like snakes!”
Michelle Goldberg
Plagued by street crime, power blackouts and punishing heat, Iraqis take to the streets to denounce the resilient elements of Saddam's ruling party.
Bye-bye, Buffy!
Laura Miller
Let's salute "Buffy the Vampire Slayer's" greatest accomplishment: A girl who not only kicked ass, but
rejected the lonely-guy way of being a superhero.
Letters
Salon Staff
Satire? Or the unvarnished truth? Readers respond to Joyce McGreevy's "Unemployment: Is It for You?"
Sleeper cell — or foolish pawns?
Jake Tapper
They trained with al-Qaida and met with Osama. All but one member of the so-called Lackawanna Six have pleaded guilty to lesser charges -- but insist they never meant anyone any harm.
Fool me once
Richard Blow
I was one of the magazine editors deceived by journalist Stephen Glass during his reign of error and lies. His fictionalized memoir, "The Fabulist," is supposed to be an apology. I don't buy it.
No “heroines,” owls, birthdays or pumpkins — they might offend somebody
Laura McClure
In her new bestseller "The Language Police," historian Diane Ravitch rips into the p.c. cops who are ruining America's textbooks in the name of "sensitivity."
Bugged out
Scott Rosenberg
"The Bug" author Ellen Ullman talks about the Gothic terrors that lurk between the rational lines of computer code.
The forbidden truth about Jayson Blair
Eric Boehlert
It's the issue nobody at the New York Times wants to discuss: Were a reporter's flagrant abuses overlooked because he's black?
A future worth fighting for
Andrew O'Hehir
Yes, "The Matrix Reloaded" delivers phantasmagoric visuals. But it also introduces a new level of grown-up human passion into this saga of technology and salvation.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Bomani Jones' article about why blacks rarely survive on reality TV shows.
The Good Ol’ Girls Club
Arianna Huffington
Would corruption be less widespread if women ran corporate America?
The heaviest burden is great potential
Cary Tennis
I have severe performance anxiety and fear of failure -- or is it fear of success?
A Matrix in every medium
Ivan Askwith
Anime, video games, movies: The synergistic storytelling frenzy of the Wachowski brothers is like nothing we've seen before.
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