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How to defeat bin Laden
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Michael Klare's suggestions about how to bring the terrorist leader to justice.
Diminished intelligence
Jeff Stein
Ex-spies say the CIA isn't up to the task of out-smarting Osama bin Laden -- despite billions of new spending in the wake of his embassy bombings.
Letters on the New York attack
Salon Staff
Readers share thoughts about the World Trade Center disaster and David Horowitz and Bruce Shapiro's takes on it.
Sex with storm troopers
Annalee Newitz
A journey to the heart of science fiction fandom reveals that selling out is a geek survival trait.
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
Trash mags with training wheels
Janelle Brown
Teen glossies walk a fine line between beauty myth and teen reality -- and they stumble often.
The horror, the horror
Judith Greer
Civilian massacres like My Lai and No Gun Ri are inevitable in the exceptionally ruthless Western way of war. So why can't we just face up to it?
Death of a dwarf
Patrizia DiLucchio
On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog, but everyone knows if you're a drunken, enraged midget.
“The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen
Andrew O'Hehir
Amid the media fizz, the novel of the year is a brilliant but strangely old-fashioned story of an intensely real family facing the perils of life in America.
Only correct
Laura Miller
Jonathan Franzen talks about the medicalization of love and loss, the charms of Narnia and living in an America where no one grows up.
Rock stars for sale!
Eric Boehlert
At the MTV Video Music Awards, it was all about the product. And Jamie Foxx wasn't funny. Calling Andy Dick!
And furthermore …
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "The Failure of Zero Tolerance," "The Paddle's Infinite Sting" and "What Are We Fighting For?"
An interview with Jonathan Franzen
Salon Staff
Listen to Laura Miller's conversation with the author of "The Corrections," recorded at Salon's studios in New York.
Swimming with sharks
Norah Vincent
"Compassionate conservatism" means creating a social contract where people take responsibility for swimming with sharks -- or sleeping with them.
“Copywrong” and “Earthlink, do you read me?”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's and Damien Cave's coverage of the DMCA, and Peter Sussman's tale of ISP tech support woe.
If a child is a killer, are the parents to blame?
Damien Cave
Psychologist and author James Garbarino says the responsibility for teen violence must be shared.
It’s a shame about Ray
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles on Ray Bradbury, the British monarchy, Jonathan Richman and a funny little newspaper column.
Roaming the asphalt prairie
Ranted by Cary Tennis
On the freeway we travel like a pack of animals, alert, touchy, hierarchical, shifting in an instant from revery to battle.
Gossip’s intrepid balloonists
Roman Milisic
Hint magazine's dish artists are loudmouths on tap with bitchy wits, but who's listening?
The paddle’s infinite sting
Ted Gup
Corporal punishment at school leaves temporary welts and permanent shame.
Copywrong?
Damien Cave
A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics.
The hippie mom and others respond
Salon Staff
Sarah Beach, author of "Curse of the Hippie Parents," is both hailed and criticized by readers.
Diana’s uncrowning glory
Jason Hill
Did Princess Diana's life (and its ending) sound the death knell for that most parasitic of institutions, the British monarchy?
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