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Snatching “Victor” from the jaws of defeat
Jacob Kornbluth
My film opened on Sept. 11. My friend's movie, "Raising Victor Vargas," opened during the war with Iraq. We talk about timing -- and how to put politics in movies without becoming Michael Moore.
Dennis the menace
Heather Havrilesky
In his latest HBO special, Dennis Miller blends high-speed highbrow chatter with juvenile macho aggression, like a grade-school bully wearing his Sunday best.
Sanitized for our protection
Eric Boehlert
The rest of the world is shown far more graphic war images than the U.S. media allows. Is the American public being insulated from the true horrors of the battlefield?
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
Haaretz: "What was born this week in Baghdad was a new Middle East."
Steal this barcode
Katharine Mieszkowski
Re-Code.com offers a do-it-yourself product repricing service. Wal-Mart is not amused.
Why does everybody love “Raymond”?
Heather Havrilesky
Because its stories and cast make it one of the best, and funniest, sitcoms on TV. Creator Phil Rosenthal talks about the success of his show as it nears its final season.
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
There was rich symbolism in the way Iraqis celebrated the fall of Baghdad. Here's how to decode it.
How neoconservatives conquered Washington — and launched a war
Michael Lind
First they converted an ignorant, inexperienced president to their pro-Israel, hawkish worldview. Then 9/11 allowed them to claim Iraq threatened the U.S. The rest is on CNN tonight.
A meditation on sex and death
Nuala O'Faolain
Why we need to make love to the Iraqis after we've made war -- and why we won't.
Letters
Salon Staff
"You've pushed my love over the borderline": Readers respond to Heather Havrilesky's essay about Madonna's new antiwar video.
The Salon Interview: Bill Moyers
Andrew O'Hehir
The conscience of American journalism speaks his mind about Bush, LBJ, Iraq, Vietnam, the triumph of America's global power and the withering of its democracy.
“All kinds of metal was flying through the air”
Phillip Robertson
Under withering Iraqi fire, I hunker down on a hilltop with a handful of U.S. and Kurdish soldiers -- and cheer the cluster bombs.
Letters
Salon Staff
A counterpoint to a Canadian reader's letter on Salon war coverage. Plus: Responses to "War? What War?" by Jake Tapper, and "Briefing for a Descent Into Hell" by Fred Branfman.
Blair: “Mistakes will be made”
Salon Staff
In an article written for the Arab press, Prime Minister Tony Blair explains why the U.K. is "reluctantly undertaking" this war despite the loss of lives.
The Madonna video you can’t see on MTV
Heather Havrilesky
A bootleg copy of her bomb-throwing "American Life" video proves provocative -- but not nearly as disturbing as her decision to yank it.
The Believer
Matthew DeBord
Dave Eggers is back -- sort of -- with a lively new monthy magazine from his McSweeney's team that attacks poison-pen literary cynics. So do we dare criticize the Believer?
Fact and fiction at the Wall Street Journal
Eric Boehlert
Liberal pundit Roger Wilkins gets slammed for a quote deemed insensitive to U.S. troops. Just one problem: Wilkins never spoke those words.
Are we doomed yet?
Sheldon Pacotti
The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to humanity that no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A fully open society is our best chance for survival.
“Head of State”
Charles Taylor
Chris Rock for president? Well, maybe. Just don't let him direct another movie.
“What’s the difference between gang fights and war?”
Salon Staff
Locked-up teens speak out about President Bush, Iraq and what the hell this war has to do with them, anyway.
“The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown
Charles Taylor
Catholic secret societies, lessons in obscure art history and a gruesome murder in the Louvre! Dan Brown's conspiracy-theory thriller is the pulp must-read of the season.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers around the globe respond to Jeff Greenwald's "Make Wanderlust, Not War." Among their suggestions: Instead of a military draft, how about a travel draft?
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
Destroying Iraqi civilians in the name of liberating them is an obscenity, one U.K. newspaper says.
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