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Understanding Kim Jong Il
Laura McClure
He likes fast cars and fast women, he's been implicated in murder and terrorism, and now he's got nuclear weapons. But dismissing the North Korean dictator as crazy plays into his hands.
“Drumline”
Charles Taylor
The surprise of an overcrowded season, this rousing marching-band drama introduces a talented young director -- and packs a wallop.
Remembrance of dot-com idiocy past
Andrew Leonard
At least Enron and WorldCom went down because of greed. But as James Ledbetter's "Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year" reveals, the Industry Standard pissed away a fortune out of mere carelessness.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "The Chinese Discovered America!" and a review of "Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World."
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
A National Review writer journeys to the Midwest -- and gets lost. Plus: A very bad week for Bush foreign policy.
Letters
Salon Staff
Joe Strummer was a saint! And lots of bands are political, you idiot. Readers respond to John Schacht's "He Fought the Law (and the Law Won)."
“The Voice of the Poet: John Ashbery”
Salon Staff
The award-winning poet reads "Memories of Imperialism" and "The Underwriters."
Football: America’s favorite homoerotic sport
King Kaufman
A tight embrace in the end zone, a gentle head-butt, a slap on the fanny -- it's all just innocent celebration. Isn't it?
“Love Liza”
Andrew O'Hehir
What do you do when your wife kills herself? Sit around in your underwear and huff gas like Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Slouching from Bethlehem
Andrew Sullivan
Joan Didion's essay on 9/11 -- which criticizes Israel and complains that civil liberties are being curtailed -- shows an intellectual left in decline.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
More Confederate nostalgia from the GOP. Was the Lott scandal the end, or just the beginning?
“American Normal” by Lawrence Osborne
Stephanie Zacharek
People with the rare condition called Asperger Syndrome can be brilliant, but they're unable to read the human face or the simplest social cue.
He fought the law (and the law won)
John Schacht
It was great to have Joe Strummer back, even if he sold "London Calling" to Jaguar. Now he's gone, reminding us that rock doesn't matter anymore.
The critic in winter
Bruce Bauman
The legendary American literary critic Leslie Fiedler talks about his encounters with Hemingway and Faulkner, his falling out with Bellow and which contemporary novelists will last.
Lord of the Geeks
Andrew Leonard
Tolkien provided the blueprint for one generation of computer games after another. But have today's whizz-bang graphics brought us any closer to Middle Earth?
“The Pianist”
Charles Taylor
Roman Polanski's wrenching World War II magnum opus confronts the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto and the moral complexities of war -- and asserts the power of art, just maybe, to triumph over nihilism.
Trent and Anna Nicole! Naked! On Fox!
Aaron Kinney
Sure, TV in 2001 got all serious and stuff. This year we reconnected with what's really important: Hard bodies in hot tubs, public humiliation and more "Law & Order" spinoffs.
“Catch Me If You Can”
Charles Taylor
Leonardo DiCaprio looks great in those '60s threads, but Steven Spielberg's story of a legendary hustler is sadly short on period zip, zowie and va-va-voom.
Music 2002: The year that squeaked
Joey Sweeney
Eminem bullied, Springsteen tried, sales sucked, but the mash-ups were pure populist art and Missy Elliott damn near reinvented hip hop.
“Spider-Man” didn’t save anything
Andrew O'Hehir
I liked "Adaptation" and "The Two Towers," but the blustery year of big directors paid mostly diminishing returns.
Lott falls, but Democrats don’t rise
Eric Boehlert
Author Charles Bullock, an expert in the politics of the South, says the GOP will dust itself off and get along fine in Dixie.
Radical humanist, Iraq hawk
Michelle Goldberg
Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi progressive living in exile, welcomes U.S. intervention as the best chance for freedom in his country. And he wonders why U.S. leftists aren't with him.
Confederates in the attic
Anthony York
In the wake of the Lott debacle, President Bush faces questions about the way his campaign used the Confederate flag to win the South Carolina primary.
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