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Cat people vs. dog people
Laura Miller
Who is more annoying? Our intrepid reviewer plunges into the overflowing litter box of pet lit to find out.
Embracing death
Susanna Stromberg
A recent study says that parents who hold their stillborn infants may be traumatized by the experience. Yes, the moments I spent with my dying newborn were the most painful of my life -- but they were also the richest.
“Cicero” by Anthony Everitt
Lawrence Osborne
Ancient Rome's greatest politican and public speaker lived a life of intrigue, betrayal and violence -- and no American leader today can hold a candle to him.
Where are the female directors?
Michelle Goldberg
There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men?
Buy Linux. It’s the law
Farhad Manjoo
A San Diego lawyer says California's state government should be forced to dump Microsoft in favor of open-source alternatives. But can free software get into politics without getting dirty?
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
A wall of hostility
Ferry Biedermann
More than 200,000 Palestinians live in East Jerusalem and share many of Israel's freedoms. But the arrest of a Hamas cell there has exposed a deep, angry divide.
Greetings from Desperation, N.J.
Carina Chocano
Armed with devastating performances from Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands, director Mira Nair trains her sociologist's eye on the Garden State in HBO's "Hysterical Blindness."
Viewer discretion
Carina Chocano
CNN's al-Qaida tapes were grisly and important, and offered a promising look at what a news channel could actually be.
Searching for Marcello
David Bowman
Photographer Daniela Federici talks about what is sexy (food, pregnancy and Marcello Mastroianni).
Ordinary people, extraordinary evil
Suzy Hansen
What kind of person can attack, mutilate and kill a total stranger or even a neighbor? A scholar talks about the dark potential in all of us.
Fox populi
Charles P. Pierce
What do the barking heads of Fox News Channel and other Murdoch media have that CNN, Rather and Donahue don't? A true, virtuous, tabloid soul.
An equine renaissance
King Kaufman
Arlington Park's owner rebuilt it after it burned, only to shut it down. Now the gleaming racetrack is bringing the Breeders' Cup to the Midwest.
Black to the future
Uju Asika
Director Isaac Julien talks about "BaadAsssss Cinema," his Independent Film Channel tribute to the outrageous fashions, foot-high Afros and subversive politics of '70s blaxploitation movies.
The life of the Dead
Douglas Cruickshank
Band insider Dennis McNally talks about his new 600-page biography of the Grateful Dead, and answers questions about their long, strange trip.
Coming up next: Ambushed on “Donahue”!
Henry Jenkins
More dangerous than Grand Theft Auto 3 -- a defender of video games is given the trash talk-show treatment. Here's what he really wanted to say.
Heritage camp and honoring the raped
Salon Staff
Readers respond to articles about summer camps for foreign adoptees and the media's coverage of rape.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Bill Kristol and other American "chicken hawks" henpeck Republican defectors.
The coming populist revolution?
Arianna Huffington
In the wake of corporate America's woes, who will tap into the American people's sense of outrage?
The new racial profilers
David Horowitz
Ward Connerly's new crusade would get the government out of the business of tracking everybody's racial identity. But liberals still don't get it.
The beauty of a hippie chick face-lift
Terry Greene Sterling
I surrendered to vanity, but I wanted to keep it real. How does one avoid looking like a Beverly Hills real estate agent?
The media titans still don’t get it
Scott Rosenberg
Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies.
Summers at Camp Ethnicity
Janelle Brown
Are camps for foreign adoptees just a place for their parents to exorcise white guilt, or do they help the kids develop pride, cope with prejudice and get in touch with their roots?
The Pentagon’s internal war
Joshua Micah Marshall
The career military and their civilian bosses at the Pentagon are at odds over weaponry, Saudi Arabia -- and Iraq.
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