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“Reign of Fire”
Andrew O'Hehir
Dragons torch the earth as manly men with weird hair battle them in this colossally misconceived dud.
Busting Bush
Salon Staff
Joe Conason goes daily, Jake Tapper returns: Two more reasons to subscribe to Salon Premium. A letter from David Talbot.
Hip-hop nation
Suzy Hansen
A spokesman for the new generation of African-Americans says hip-hop can ignite a fresh wave of black activism -- but first the civil rights veterans have to get out of the way.
Fabulous fantasies
Augusten Burroughs
In third grade I wore polyester stretch bell-bottoms and wanted to be Christine Jorgensen, the world's first famous transsexual.
Who’ll stop the corporate crime wave?
Arianna Huffington
The Bush administration can't be trusted to crack down on behavior its leaders once indulged in.
Big issues, big answers
Cary Tennis
Not enough sex, too much sex -- and what to do with a man who insists on baby talk with his teen girls?
Flag-draped voyeurism
Michelle Goldberg
At ground zero, Americans suck the last morsel of flavor from the most exciting day they will ever know.
The undeniable truth about Burma
Greg Milner
Mission of Burma recorded 21 songs, helped invent post-punk, and left a legacy that resonated from R.E.M. to Moby. More than 20 years later, no one will let the band die.
Imitation nation
Lisa Movius
Is piracy-crazed China a nightmare vision of the future, or just a developing country going through some severe growing pains?
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
You go, girl
Michelle Goldberg
Backpacker fiction like "The Beach" explores the authenticity-grubbing subculture of the dreadlocked, ganja-scented travelers, but women have been left out -- until now.
Endangered species
Laura Miller
Why are there no more rugged, self-reliant he-men like the subject of Elizabeth Gilbert's "The Last American Man"? Because no women will put up with them.
Powerpuff Girls meet world
Heather Havrilesky
Three kindergarten girls are here to save the day. Are they making the world safe for female heroes, or making female heroes safe for the world? Who cares.
It’s time for ICANN to go
Damien Cave
John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.
Dr. Bachelor
Cole Kazdin
The editor of Psychology Today has a theory that you can learn to fall in love, and he's using himself as a guinea pig of passion.
“What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has”
Ian Rothkerch
David Simon, creator of the searing new HBO series "The Wire," on why even the best cop shows are phony and our anti-drug mania amounts to a permanent war against the underclass.
The death of Rolling Stone
Sean Elder
The magazine that invented rock journalism lost its reason to exist years ago. Now, with a British lad-mag editor taking the helm, it's time to pull the plug.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small?
My First Monumental Reference Book
Kevin Baker
Pestilently fecund children's publishing synergies have spawned a squirming, mewling, instinctively sucking, obliviously pooping litter of new celebrities. Awww. Aren't they sweet!
When right-wing fembots attack
Charles Taylor
Ann Coulter dishes out a fresh bookful of hypocrisy, distortion and half-crazed rants. Can't conservatives find a better champion than this?
Leave “The Pledge” alone
Alan Wolfe
The 9th Circuit's official sponsorship of atheism is as repugnant to our tradition of tolerance as official sponsorship of religion.
Bush’s terrorism smokescreen
Robert Scheer
The president is using America's new war to distract us from his disastrous economic policies.
Lord Buckley rides again!
Douglas Cruickshank
The new biography of the Hip Messiah gives us a quintessentially American character worthy of a Mark Twain novel.
Fiddling while the Middle East burns
Gary Kamiya
Bush's one-sided speech is just the latest chapter in a long history of U.S. ignorance, ill will and condescension toward the Palestinians -- and it's not going to help Israel, either.
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