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America's Cold War casualties
Robert Alvarez
A former Energy Department official dissects President Clinton's new plan to help the sick workers who built the country's nuclear arsenal.
Women's magazines are dead
Ann Marlowe
The death of Mirabella is a leading indicator of a new reality: Gender roles just aren't as important in daily life anymore.
Sharps and Flats
Joey Sweeney
In an era when everyone is cool, "sadcore" musicians rewrite the pathetic story of tortured soul John Denver.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Is Arianna Huffington naive about poverty? Plus: Don't arrest Whitney Houston, legalize marijuana! Esperanto is not a "fake" language.
Salon.com Expands Content Offerings on Wireless Devices Through AvantGo
Press on Salon.com
Salon.com creates new potential revenue stream with advertising sales on AvantGo
Of greed, technolibertarianism and geek omnipotence
Thomas Scoville
Paulina Borsook talks with Thomas Scoville about her new book, "Cyberselfish."
Time warp
Brad Wieners
In "Cyberselfish," Paulina Borsook denounces high-tech culture as pitiless, egotistical and libertarian. She was right in 1996.
Dennis Cooper
Daniel Reitz
With his excoriating, hallucinatory, viciously funny vision, he's the most important transgressive literary artist since William S. Burroughs -- but even Burroughs didn't get death threats.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Are bad reviews part of the anti-Horowitz conspiracy? Plus: Woe is Microsoft; bodybuilders are a stereotype of masculinity.
Elian and Elio
Arianna Huffington
When will Gloria Estefan and Diane Sawyer stand on their heads for the thousands of children who live with poverty and neglect -- here in the U.S.?
Silicon Valley's pinup boys
Katharine Mieszkowski
Venture capitalists and start-up founders slip into something comfortable for GQ.
Not big in Japan
Jennifer Hanawald
Arthur Golden's American bestseller, "Memoirs of a Geisha," gets a thumbs down from the country where it's set.
Suckling monkeys
Jack Boulware
The women of a tribe in the Amazon jungle breast-feed small primates and other animals.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Readers reflect on the legacy of Vietnam Plus: Can Ritalin be lethal? Darva Conger should keep her clothes on.
Of babyfaces and heels
Andrew O'Hehir
From crimson masks to electrifying sports entertainers, two bestselling wrestling books chronicle the blood, sweat and touching humanism of America's most popular redneck soap opera.
It's a bubble, all right!
Thomas Scoville
In "Irrational Exuberance," Robert Shiller credits investors' folly with keeping the bull market on its feet.
Snacking
Dylan Edwards
If only women would trust men's genuine desire to give oral sex, instead of presuming it's all about intercourse.
Silencing Joseph Stiglitz
David Moberg
The World Bank cuts its ties to the economist who became an unlikely hero to world trade protesters.
R. Crumb
Steve Burgess
Is the bull-goose legend of underground comix the Brueghel of our time or the purveyor of an arrested juvenile vision?
Sayings of Chairman Bill
Scott Rosenberg
Gates' Microsoft defense is full of holes, but so is the government's breakup plan.
Real Life Rock Top Ten
Greil Marcus
Why Patrick Bateman killed, the meeting of Sleater-Kinney and more.
Where cowards have no names
David Horowitz
On Amazon.com, reader reviewers can share their thoughts about books like mine, but don't expect the hardcore leftists to identify themselves.
“The Binding Chair” by Kathryn Harrison
Laura Morgan Green
Is the author's latest abused-woman fantasy -- this one set in China and France in the early decades of the 20th century -- revelatory or pornographic?
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