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Taking on the untouchables
Joe Conason
John McCain's decision to attack the leaders of the religious right is refreshing because Republican leaders have too long been cowed into submission by these bigots.
The pink scare
Michael Zilberman
Slightly neurotic Russian superstar Zemfira is Elvis, the Sex Pistols and Courtney Love rolled into one.
Janet Malcolm
Craig Seligman
In her relentless pursuit of the truth she's left a few bodies in her wake, but isn't that part of a journalist's job?
Two for the price of one
David Horowitz
Republicans should rejoice over this spring's exciting primary race because either candidate is a winner.
Sharps & Flats
Christopher Binkley
Smashing fey rockers with one hand, punching complacency with the other, Henry Rollins robotically returns to rock 'n' roll.
The Eli
Carole Zimmer
The 14-year-old Karmapa faces Chinese vengeance, accusations of espionage and the political intrigues of Tibetan Buddhism.
“La Vida” loca
Andres Martinez
The modern Mexican telenovela is an oversexed stew of giddy promiscuity, weird couplings, substance abuse and repressed homosexuality. Let's watch!
Do they know where you live?
Damien Cave
ICraveTV wants to build geographic "borders" online so it can stream live TV to specific markets -- but would regional divisions be acceptable for a World Wide Web?
Future sex
Stephen Lemons
For proud owners of a $5,000 Realdoll, she's always ready when you're ready. But it takes a special kind of man to get ready for a hunk of silicone with three holes.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
Frat boys aren't stupid Plus: Zoetrope zingers par for the course; keep your name, change your religion, but don't blame the Catholic Church.
A ghetto mom talks back
Caroline Ruhle
The New York Times says inner-city youth need "middle-class" parenting. But it's poverty, not bad child-rearing, that holds poor kids back.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
Vive Laetitia Casta, busty symbol of France! Plus: Oxygen sucks the intellectual air out of women's television; just say no to the war on drugs.
Iran on the cusp of change
Salon Staff
Salon's coverage of the elections in Iran, the reform movement and the evolution of culture under the mullahs.
“Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market” by Walter Johnson
Matthew DeBord
A historian plunges deep into the ugly business of buying and selling slaves.
Pros and amateurs
Ann Marlowe
One way or another, men still expect to pay for sex -- and women pay for it, too, by keeping their financial goals low.
Persian pop vs. the revolution
Vivienne Walt
Iran's strict laws have created two cultures: The official and the real.
“We're patriotic Americans because we're Mexicans”
Gregory Rodriguez
Along the Texas-Mexico border, Latinos dress like George Washington and forge a new American identity.
The essence of geekdom
Thomas Scoville
Can you create an accurate dissertation on nerd subculture by studying two young Idahoans? Jon Katz gives it a try in "Geeks."
Alpha male epsilon
Andy Dehnart
Although an exact definition remains elusive, most people know a frat
boy when they see one. And suddenly, they're seen everywhere.
Real art is murder
Michael Scott Moore
Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, died forgotten a decade ago. Now her never-produced play has been dusted off to combat NEA "censorship."
Pols, guns and androgyny
Camille Paglia
A speed-of-light cultural flyover covering McCain, Koresh, guns, Hillary, "G.I. Blues," a heartfelt appeal to the Winslet Brigade, "Star Trek" and, well, you get the idea.
This is my home
Pico Iyer
We clarify ourselves among the foreign, make camp where we'd least expect to.
Mud-slinging with a spin
Jake Tapper
Bush: McCain is intolerant for saying I'm too tolerant of the intolerant. Understand?
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