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Are dictators mad geniuses?
Laura Miller
Two new books suggest that demented world leaders like Saddam, Idi Amin and Baby Doc Duvalier might be more like that cranky guy in the next cubicle than Hannibal Lecter.
“The Young Unknowns”
Andrew O'Hehir
Catherine Jelski's debut feature takes a cool, intriguing glance at a decadent Hollywood Hills party where the drugs go bad and the news gets worse.
Open warfare
Salon Staff
Pentagon ally Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, calls Colin Powell's State Department "a clear disaster."
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Why Rick Santorum's denunciation of gays and endorsement of a Christian moral code isn't surprising at all.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "The Sound Bite and the Fury," by Louis Bayard, and "Making Passes at Passover," by Sheerly Avni.
Letters
Salon Staff
What about workplace discrimination against atheists? Readers respond to Christopher S. Stewart's "Office Politics and God."
Propaganda or journalism?
Anthony York
Congress believes a U.S. government-run TV network can deliver independent news to an Arab audience -- and make them like us, too.
The dangers of democracy
Michelle Goldberg
This season's intellectual pinup, Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Future of Freedom," explains why the romantic myth of freedom could harm Iraq -- and why power elites aren't so bad.
“Malibu’s Most Wanted”
Charles Taylor
Don't be hatin' -- unless you're hatin' Jamie Kennedy's lame wigga act in this witless comedy.
Sexual turbulence in Colorado Springs
Dave Cullen
The Air Force Academy's new hard-line policies will curb rape and harassment -- but they don't do enough to protect the victims.
The end of civilization
Louise Witt
The sacking of Iraq's museums is like a "lobotomy" of an entire culture, say art experts. And they warned the Pentagon repeatedly of this potential catastrophe months before the war.
The new idea men
Tina Brown
Forget the embeds. The pretty new things are war intellectuals like Fareed Zakaria, Paul Berman and Victor Hanson.
“What if someone stole the Constitution and the Liberty Bell?”
Karen Croft
An American expert in Islamic art tries to measure the cultural devastation caused by the Baghdad museum looting.
“The Real World,” with beer bongs
Heather Havrilesky
MTV's "Fraternity Life" brings back all the boneheaded bluster and enforced insularity of campus Greeks and their semi-anarchic pack mentality.
Don’t mess with Wal-Mart
Katharine Mieszkowski
The bar code-hacking Web site Re-Code.com shuts down, though not without firing some last-second salvos at evil chain store hegemonic domination.
Office politics and God
Christopher S. Stewart
Muslims, Jews, Pentecostal Baptists -- religious discrimination in the workplace is an equal-opportunity troublemaker.
The Fix
Karen Croft
Madonna likes sex, Colin Farrell likes Sean's wife, Oliver likes Castro too much and Cage likes his comic books more than he likes Lisa Marie!
“Empire” by Niall Ferguson
Farhad Manjoo
In Niall Ferguson's new book, the British Empire was a good thing for everybody -- and the American empire now being born should take lessons from our stiff-upper-lipped forebears.
The joy of no sex
Sam Langley
Celibacy becomes an invitation to be a better father, a better citizen of the world, and, yes, even a better husband.
Death of a cheerleader
Om Malik
Red Herring is gone, and so is the boom it chronicled. But the magazine's optimism wasn't misplaced -- it was right on target.
Onward Christian soldiers
Max Blumenthal
Conservative fundamentalists with close ties to President Bush are planning a new missionary push in Iraq -- and they might already be converting U.S. troops to their cause.
“The Songs of the Kings” by Barry Unsworth
Laura Miller
How a glorious war of liberation turned to maniacal carnage and devastation -- in this gripping historical novel, it happened 3,000 years ago, when the Greeks laid siege to Troy.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers agree: "The Daily Show" is better than the news. Plus, thank god for Big Bird, and a defense of James Cameron.
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