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Where was George?
Joan Walsh
Anthrax deaths, straying bombs and squabbling politicians -- every day, things get a bit worse. Meanwhile, the president promotes his pen pal plan.
Book lovers’ quarrel
Laura Miller
Jonathan Franzen's dustup with Oprah exposes the deep rift between devotees of the "literary" and fans of the "popular."
Start the World Series without me
David Beers
Baseball's essential equation -- for every winner, there is a heartbroken loser -- is too much for me in these heartbreaking times.
The Taliban’s ladies auxiliary
Asra Q. Nomani
A revival of conservative Islam among educated Pakistani women has many doing whatever they can to support the war against America.
Bill Clinton speaks
Salon Staff
In a speech made earlier this month at Yale University, the former president reflects on "the first great struggle for the soul of the 21st century."
Free drugs from your faucet
Mark D. Uehling
How did tiny amounts of nearly every drug under the sun get into our drinking water -- and what are they doing to us?
All terror, all the time
Arianna Huffington
With breathless reporting, rampant rumors and baseless speculation, the media's terrorism coverage is reminiscent of another absurd chapter in the Gary Condit saga.
Everything you were afraid to ask about “Mulholland Drive”
Bill Wyman, Max Garrone, Andy Klein
Revised and updated: The scary cowboy! The mysterious box! All that sex! We answer all your questions about David Lynch's latest outrage -- the weirdest movie of the year.
Don DeLillo
Jeffrey MacIntyre
America's premier novelist of ideas has long anticipated a world in which spectacle and terror would achieve totemic significance in our everyday lives.
Disunited we stand
Richard Rodriguez
The jingoistic cries of unity since Sept. 11 are disturbing -- and fundamentally un-American.
Fundamental problems
Max Garrone
Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share.
Memo to America: Get a grip!
Laura Miller
Led by the neurotic teeth-chattering classes, once-brave Americans are in danger of becoming Cipro-hoarding, gas-mask-buying wimps.
Andrew Sullivan’s jihad
David Talbot
Since Sept. 11, the British journalist has declared himself the mullah of the media world, sitting in judgment of American writers' patriotism.
A would-be martyr
Asra Q. Nomani
Qaiser Nadeem, 20, longs for the day he is called to leave his video store and join the jihad -- fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan.
Love in the time of terrorism
Lillian Ann Slugocki
Please tell me that you were compelled to take a stranger to bed, then tell me that you will never speak of it again.
Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition
Janelle Brown
After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected.
Terror cleansing
Chris Colin
Since Sept. 11, pop culture has been purging itself of anything potentially insensitive. But who decides what "sensitive" is?
Panic in the Capitol
Jake Tapper
Thirty-one Hill workers test positive for Anthrax exposure, and a day of conflicting reports ends with only a little reassurance.
A memo to American Muslims
M. A. Muqtedar Khan
It's time for us to search our souls. How can the message of Muhammad become a source of horror and fear? How can Islam inspire thousands of youth to dedicate their lives to killing others?
White powder in my morning paper
Jessica Branson Oreskovic
What exactly happens when you report a possible anthrax exposure? One woman found out -- the hard way.
How did they get in?
Jake Tapper
Of the 19 terrorists implicated in last month's slaughter, 13 were admitted into the U.S. legally. The other six completely escaped the government's detection. Which of these two facts is more alarming?
Love among the ruins
Cary Tennis
Salon's new advice columnist addresses the perils of post-Sept. 11 romance, fear of being fat, a best man's toast that went too far and other scenes from the human dramedy.
The spam spoils of war
Damien Cave
Bin Laden toilet paper! Cipro e-mail! In the great American tradition, an army of entrepreneurs is trying to make hay on horror.
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