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In machines we trust:
Read by Scott Rosenberg
If Bush is right that human beings are incapable of counting votes, how can we rely on them to govern us?
The margarine conspiracy
Kenneth H. Cleaver
Our intrepid corporate correspondent gets to the bottom of the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" mystery.
Do-it-yourself “Star Wars”
Howard Wen
It's the next copyright battleground -- fan filmmakers are hacking their favorite movies.
Dream a little dream
Gregg Wirth
Battered and broken pro wrestler Tommy Dreamer helped found the roughest wrestling league around. Now he's taking a beating.
And the winner is …
Laura Miller
The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads.
Heteroflexibility
Laurie Essig
The latest semantic ploy to keep sexual options open really pisses me off.
Ricky Martin: They pull and they push!
Amy Reiter
The admitted bonbon shaker complains that gays and straights are fighting over his sex life; Gwyneth Paltrow nabs ketchup prince. Plus: Hasselhoff polishes up the old r
Courtesan power
Christina Valhouli
Beautiful arbiters of intelligence and sex, these women are historically important but perhaps a dying breed. First of two parts.
Becoming president under a noxious cloud
Camille Paglia
In which a befuddled Bush and a schizoid Gore do battle in a scene distressingly reminiscent of the most bilious days of imperial Rome.
Betting the Farmclub
Anthony Mariani
Why is MTV's Matt Pinfield shilling for the shamelessly corporate music show "Farmclub.com"? Can you say "synergy"?
Eros in the age of machines
John Clute
Why did Theodore Sturgeon's great love stories languish in the ghetto of science fiction?
“Politics”
Karen Finley
An artist who challenged Jesse Helms and George Bush's "decency clause" 10 years ago remembers what it was like to be called the "chocolate smeared young woman."
Steve Buscemi
Stephen Lemons
He has a wildly successful career as a character actor. So why does he go and direct a prison movie, "Animal Factory," with Tom Arnold and Mickey Rourke?
Being Martin Heidegger
Ralph Brave
His new translator tells you what you need to know about the philosopher -- and why you need to know it.
“We’re in a constitutional crisis”
Compiled by Salon staff
With Florida a tossup and the appearance that Al Gore will win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote, experts square off.
Sunshine psychosis
Andrew Leonard
Of course Florida can't make up its electoral mind -- it's where America's craziness runs out of exits.
Enter the “yettie”
Janelle Brown
The "young entrepreneurial technocrat" has arrived: Finally, Mouse Jockeys
and Nerds Made Good
have an acronym of their own.
The man without a country
Mark Schapiro
How Vladimiro Montesinos' old nemesis helped force the former Peruvian spy chief out of comfortable exile in Panama -- and could compel him to face trial at home.
Why is this race even close?
Andrew Sullivan
Because George W. Bush has campaigned better, proposed more forward-thinking programs and proved, in the end, that he's smarter than Al Gore.
Vote for Ralph Nader!
Ellen Willis
Building a left-wing alternative to the Democrats is more important than the small chance that Roe vs. Wade will be overturned.
Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?
Damien Cave
San Francisco's anti-growth Proposition L is an unnecessarily harsh referendum on the merits of the new economy.
A vote for Bush will hurt your love life
Ellen Fulton
If men truly care about having sex with women, they should pull the lever for Gore.
“In Griot Time”
Robert Christgau
Banning Eyre went to Africa to learn guitar, but he came back with an enticing tale about Mali, Afropop and cultural immersion.
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