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After the gold dust
Michelle Goldberg
The dot-coms went bust, but the Chemical Brothers are still office-partying like it's 1999.
Oliver North
Joan Walsh
The Fox News house pundit and Iran-Contra scandal survivor spars with Salon's news editor over Bush, Clinton, bin Laden and whether his own Contra allies were terrorists.
The kitschification of Sept. 11
Daniel Harris
America hid from the harsh realities of the attack behind a maudlin curtain of heavenly firemen and weeping angels.
“Servants of the Map” by Andrea Barrett
Laura Miller
Victorian and modern scientists grapple with the philosophical challenge of evolution and the clash between curiosity and love in this collection of linked stories.
The ghosts of “Gosford Park”
Steven Johnson
Robert Altman doesn't just enliven the corpse of the manor-house murder mystery -- he reunites it with its vital literary forebears.
Doing the Sundance shuffle
Alan Deutschman
Our intrepid reporter went to the ridiculously famous indie film festival, hobnobbed with Mariah and Mira, breathed the same air as Brad and Parker and uncovered one dirty little secret.
Brain-dead
Daniel Mendelsohn
HBO's "Mind of the Married Man" is about as edgy as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
Relics of the lost bulletin-board tribes
Katharine Mieszkowski
Text files preserve some of the vivacity of old-fashioned online conversation. Will Web-based discussions vanish from the historical record?
The N word
Charles Taylor
From Mark Twain to Chris Rock, it provokes book banning and nervous giggles. A black scholar asks if it's ever OK to say "nigger."
“In Cold Blood”
Amy Standen
Just over 40 years ago, a dandified New York reporter named Truman Capote traveled to Kansas to investigate the shotgun murder of a farm family. The result changed journalism forever.
More than one Enron official warned company about growing crisis
Jake Tapper
One staff lawyer grew so worried, he secretly hired an outside law firm to review the company's murky business partnerships. Another executive was reassigned after raising alarms.
If Enron isn’t a political scandal, nothing is
Scott Rosenberg
So what if Bush and company didn't bail out Enron? The outrage lies in what politicians did for the company on its way up, not the way down.
Slavish fans! Desperate accusations!
Salon Staff
Readers say: Keep your storm troopers away from our hobbits!
Forget the Force — “The Lord” rules!
Eric Lipton
I, too, once loved "Star Wars." Then I grew up and learned to appreciate "The Lord of the Rings."
America’s homegrown terrorists
Suzy Hansen
An expert on right-wing hate groups talks about the tortured emotional roots of their rage, their response to Sept. 11 and their role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Julia Phillips, queen of the night
Tim Appelo
She'll never eat lunch on this planet again, but while she was here the Oscar-winning producer outdid Truman Capote in shrieking truth to decadent power.
“The Dark Side” by Mark Schreiber
Jennifer Hanawald
A study of crime -- from kidnapping and cannibalism to mass murder -- in the land of the Rising Sun challenges the stereotype of a safe, orderly society.
Love and marriage
Cary Tennis
How do you choose when friends are getting a divorce, how do you reconcile the need to marry within one's culture and how do you live in a marriage without sex?
I was a cowboy for the CIA
Laura Miller
A tough-guy field agent blasts wimpy pencil pushers and "politics" for keeping him from lassoing terrorist evildoers. He's right -- but you wouldn't want his kind in charge, either.
Cold, hard facts
Norah Vincent
The new Cold War will be dirty and covert -- and the Vietnam-era left better get used to it.
“Sympathy for the Devil”
Douglas Cruickshank
Mick Jagger's mad, erudite incantation strutted '60s rock toward the dark side of history.
Send in the iKlowns
Katharine Mieszkowski
At Macworld, out-of-work dot-commers pose as marauding clowns. The authorities are not amused.
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