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Brewskis, butt jokes and reefer madness
Carina Chocano
This year's Super Bowl ads reflect a depressed nation: We need jobs, our animals don't talk anymore and we're terrified of big butts and bad drugs. How 'bout a beer?
Subcontracting the kids
Katharine Mieszkowski
"Global Woman" co-author Arlie Russell Hochschild talks about how middle-class families rely on Third World women -- who often abandon their own children to work in the U.S.
Hart: We are not prepared for war
Gary Hart
Possible presidential candidate Gary Hart delivered a speech Tuesday lambasting the current Bush administration's homeland security policy -- or lack thereof.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to John George's article on his daughter's anorexia with a deluge of mail, some supportive, some scathing. Plus: Bimbo TV and Anne Lamott.
Can Tony Blair stop the war?
Eric Boehlert
To some, he is a skilled power player. Others call him Bush's poodle. In the make-or-break weeks ahead, he could shape history -- or become its victim.
“So What: The Life of Miles Davis” by John Szwed
Allen Barra
Genius, junkie, wife-beater, demigod -- a new book plumbs the mysteries of the most influential and enigmatic American musician of our time.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Conservative crackup on Iraq: Rice and Safire scramble to defend Bush policy. Plus: Almost three out of four voters believe Bush must prove his case against Iraq.
Hey, Shakira — pass the Grey Poupon!
Amy Reiter
News flash: Bare-midriff Colombian songstress has brain, loves culture! Renee Zellweger ready to pork out (again). And why not? Manolo likes 'em plump.
Ground zero: Where the buffalo roam?
Su Ciampa
A new film from "Slacker" director Richard Linklater offers a daring, crackpot vision for the World Trade Center memorial: A 16-acre park full of free-roaming bison.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
What does Condi Rice really think about affirmative action? It's not clear she herself knows.
New Jack City
Heather Havrilesky
From "The Bachelorette" to "documentaries" on the Bunny Ranch, America is wallowing in boobs and butts like never before. But just how nasty do we wanna be?
My disappearing daughter
John George
I watched my confident teenager head off to college. A few months later, I greeted a fragile, frightened apparition -- 35 pounds thinner than when she'd left. A story of anorexia, guilt and understanding.
After the copyright smackdown: What next?
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert. The fight has really only just begun.
The Roots: “Phrenology”
Stephen Weiss
Their 1999 album "Things Fall Apart" ranks as one of the best hip-hop albums ever. With expectations high, the genre's only real "band" sets out in a new direction.
Letters
Salon Staff
"The best essay I've read all year!" "Thumbs down!" Readers sound off on Charles Taylor's "The War Against Movie Critics."
Cold feet
Arianna Huffington
Eliot Spitzer caved to Wall Street criminals. Maybe he decided that taking on the most powerful people in the country might not be the best strategy for a man considering a run for governor.
Scenes from the class struggle on Fox
Carina Chocano
In "Joe Millionaire," with its lumpen-wacky TV vision of the rich, pop culture finally faces inequality in "classless" America.
Over my dead body
Janelle Brown
Activists are flocking to the West Bank to serve as human shields, protecting Palestinians and protesting the Israeli occupation. Are they part of the solution -- or part of the problem?
Another shade of black
Suzy Hansen
John McWhorter talks about the pitfalls of reparations and affirmative action, why Eminem will never be hip-hop's Elvis, and why the N-word doesn't bother him much.
Wishing upon a star
Michelle Goldberg
The left looks to Hollywood to help rally antiwar sentiment. Soap Operas United to Win Without War, anyone?
The war against movie critics
Charles Taylor
So the editor of Variety thinks film criticism is pointless elitism. Does he speak for the moviegoing public -- or the Hollywood studio execs and corporate media bigshots who'd like to ditch the critics?
Double take
Salon Staff
He was in love with himself -- both of them. Dr. Jekyll was hot; I had to dump deceitful Mr. Hyde.
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