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Daddy’s girl
Jake Tapper
Karenna Gore Schiff may be personable (if a little programmed), but she stays on message -- except when it comes to the death penalty.
The true voice of the Amazon returns!
Camille Paglia
Stand back as she holds forth on Bush's bumbling ineptitude, Gore's shameless demagoguery and other reasons she's voting for Nader. Plus: Major league media assholes, Anne Heche and more!
“Noodling for Flatheads” by Burkhard Bilger
Jonathan Miles
A tribute to moonshiners, squirrel-brain eaters, cockfighters and other Southern holdouts against a bland and uniform national culture.
Wen Ho Lee is free
Joshua Micah Marshall
As the government's wobbly case against him closes, will Chinagate close along with it?
“The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood
Karen Houppert
The novelist's latest masterwork blends mystery, futuristic fantasy and family saga.
How Big Blue fell for Linux
Andrew Leonard
When open-source developers and IBM took gambles on each other, free software showed it can flourish in the heartland of corporate computing.
Bush gets in on Hollywood-bashing
Jake Tapper
Lynne Cheney will be able to take her shots at the entertainment industry before Congress in what's shaping up to be the season's biggest gangbang
What ever happened to the fall TV season?
Joyce Millman
It's September: Where are all the new shows? Plus: Court TV's reality entry "Confessions" is not good for the soul.
Cruel summer for the 24-hour TV news execs
Eric Boehlert
With blown-out tires and wildfires passing as big stories, news-junkie networks are jonesing.
Armless (and legless) in Japan
Jennifer Hanawald
A 22-year-old author born without limbs has taken his homeland by storm.
“Nurse Betty”
Charles Taylor
Neil LaBute's elitist pretense and cold, self-serving characters snuff out fantasy, romance and a perfectly sweet script.
“Lesbian Art in America” by Harmony Hammond
Jonathan Lerner
This new book is as much about the history of lesbians in this country as it is about their art.
Eclipse of an urban dot-com dream
Nasoan Sheftel-Gomes
At first Urban Box Office Network seemed like Motown meets Downtown fabulous. But then things went wrong.
When life was no “Cabaret”
Michael Sragow
"Paragraph 175" filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman testify about the Nazi persecution of gay men.
The reasonable gun nut
David Bowman
Denounced by the NRA, a historian talks about the myth of early American gun ownership and his own fascination with firearms.
Globalized grievance
Ana Arana, Garry M. Leech
Indigenous Ecuadorians want Texaco to answer for alleged environmental recklessness in the Amazon -- and 30,000 of them are fighting the oil giant in U.S. District Court.
Portrait of the director as a young rock critic
Dave McCoy
Cameron Crowe talks about "Jerry Maguire," "Say Anything ..." and tiptoeing his way though the '70s for his new autobiographical movie, "Almost Famous."
He still gets around
Rachel Louise Snyder
Former Beach Boys genius Brian Wilson now lets us use the word "genius." It's all part of growing up.
“Nothing Like It in the World” by Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen Prothero
The bestselling historian serves up the stirring tale of the unsung men who built the transcontinental railroad.
Just civil unioned!
Virginia Vitzthum
A newlywed lesbian couple talks about the meaning of their Vermont don't-call-it-marriage.
The one and only
Garrison Keillor
He's my true love, but he's married. Is there just one perfect person in the world for everyone?
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