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Weapons of mass instruction
Shana Ting Lipton
"Koyaanisqatsi" director Godfrey Reggio invented a film genre, prefiguring the campus classic "Baraka." There are no words in his latest -- just one cutting image after another.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to stories about America's gun culture, film literacy and kids in the dugout.
Love’s blossom and thorn
Salon Staff
We ask veterans of online
dating to submit their tales of ecstasy and woe
for a pair of new features: Match Made in
Heaven, and Match Made in Hell.
Settlement talk
Farhad Manjoo
What Bill Gates and advocates for each side have to say about the court's decision to approve the Microsoft antitrust deal.
In heaven’s smoking section
Laura Miller
Anne Lamott talks about her new novel, "Blue Shoe," growing up in a disastrous perfect family, and her lingering hope that George W. Bush will resign.
Guns, lies and the Internet in South Carolina
Farhad Manjoo
Field & Stream's Web site was associated with a voter's guide accusing a Democratic Senate candidate of being anti-gun. One problem: He's a member of the NRA.
One nation, under the gun
Sheerly Avni
The gun lobby has helped arm countless psychos. And now it's expanding its market to kids.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the Christopher Hitchens interview, "How the Left Became Irrelevant."
Reel world domination
Damien Cave
If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so.
Mask oriented
Laura Miller
Phyllis Galembo's photos of vintage costumes, from Depression-era ghost hoods to 1960s neon plastic skulls, distill the murky glamour of Halloween.
Forty movies every film fan should see
Andrew O'Hehir
Are you cinematically literate? Salon's A&E editor picks the best and most influential movies of all time.
Remembering Paul Wellstone
Scott Adams
A longtime staffer recalls how the Minnesota senator took principled stands and cast principled votes -- and used them to win.
MC Paul Barman: “Paullelujah!”
Dan Kois
On his sophomore album, the New Jersey rapper delivers a hilarious concoction of erudite lyrics and crude sexual fantasies that has even himself wondering how he can be "so smart and so stupid at the same time."
Daddy’s home
Joan Walsh
Sharing the dugout and lots of affection with their sons, the Giants telegraphed good news about fatherhood -- and manhood -- in 2002.
Microsoft’s media monopoly
Farhad Manjoo
Bill Gates wants to control the delivery of digital entertainment into your home. And according to a lawsuit brought by a pioneering software company, he's prepared to crush anything that gets in his way. First of two parts.
Will the NRA once again shoot down common-sense legislation?
Arianna Huffington
In the wake of the sniper attacks around Washington, the gun lobby remains unmoved by the case for ballistic fingerprinting.
The all-too-female cluelessness of “I Don’t Know How She Does It”
Ann Marlowe
When you make $750,000 a year, you don't sweat the domestic details. But the lastest hit novel about a miserable working mom is too ignorant and dishonest about money to deal with that.
Dying for God
Damien Cave
The author of "The Martyrs of Columbine" on the strange and sometimes violent collision of religion and politics.
Dilbert’s a weasel and so are you
Katharine Mieszkowski
The dot-com bubble was tough for cartoonist Scott Adams. But now that things suck again, it's boom time once more for disillusioned cubicle droids.
Amiri Baraka stands by his words
Suzy Hansen
New Jersey's poet laureate, facing a hailstorm of criticism for his fevered 9/11 poem, tells Salon that 4,000 Israelis really did stay home from the WTC that day.
Snipercountry.com fires back
Joshua Micah Marshall
An administrator from the popular Web site says long-range marksmen are being smeared by the media.
Joan Collins has the right idea
Trisha Posner
Biologically, it makes more sense for older women to have sex with younger men -- unless they want to talk afterward.
Letters
Salon Staff
Stop the war games jingoism! Readers respond to Wagner James Au's "Weapons of Mass Distraction."
Bush liberates Europe!
Erik H. Thoreson
Wild celebrations greet president as 10-year marijuana sentences, assault rifles and politicians who never lose their hair sweep across continent!
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