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Digital Punditry Overload
Scott Rosenberg
We're awash in books about the high-tech future. How do you separate the good stuff from the junk? Here are three easy ways.
Media Circus: Two Cheers for the Tabloids
David Futrelle
CBS's oh-so-high-minded decision not to run the full Bill Cosby interview on "60 Minutes" is blatant hypocrisy.
Media Circus: Theater Wars
Carl Swanson
When black playwright August Wilson called for a separate black theater, he ignited the latest, and one of the oddest, chapters in America's ongoing culture war
Bestseller Hell
John Carroll
John Carroll reviews Jack Canfield and Mark Victor
Hansen's "Chicken Soup For The Soul".
Don't starve for me, Argentina
Lori Leibovich
Why eating disorders and plastic
surgery are a way of life in the
land of Eva Persn
Media Circus: Soledad O'Brien – Goddess to the Geeks
David Futrelle
The host of The Site is "the first viable goddess icon" of the digital domain. Or so say hordes of mouse-clutching fans.
Girls Only
Katharine Whittemore
Katherine Whittemore reviews "Girls Only: Sleepovers, Squabbles, Tuna Fish and Other Facts of Family Life" By Alex Witchel.
Media Circus: If this show sucks, you must still pay me bucks
Joyce Millman
Following his megahit infomercial "O.J.: The Trial," Johnnie Cochran goes prime time.
Rain Forest on Chopping Block in Belize
Mary Jo McConahay
In its effort to earn foreign exchange to pay off a large national debt, tiny Belize is selling Asian lumber companies logging rights to one of Central America's last great rain forests.
BrainWave
Salon, Electric Minds, Feed, The Site
The pros and cons of Libertarianism laid out at four major Web sites
Losing It
Sara Kelly
Sara Kelly reviews "Losing It: America's Obsession with Weight
and the Industry that Feeds on It" by Laura Fraser.
Resurrecting the real Dr. King
Samuel G. Freedman
By making him into everybody's hero, "Martin Luther King Jr. Day" robs the civil rights leader of the traits that made him truly radical.
The medium isn't the message
David Futrelle
Why the new media won't save the world, or even displace the old media
Jackie Chan, Everybody's All-American
Wagner James Au
"For the first time," the ads say, "he's fighting for America." Soon, Hollywood may be fighting for mainland China.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Lori Leibovich
An academic mission of mercy confronts the "take-no-prisoners" incivility that is scorching our culture
The Divorce Culture
Leora Tanenbaum
Leora Tanenbaum reviews "Divorce Culture: How Divorce Became An Entitlement and How It is Blighting the Lives of Our Children" by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Fred Branfman
Who really makes the choice in "physician-assisted suicides"? Ourselves or the doctor?
New news in old bottles
Scott Rosenberg
Wired News tries to mix digital-age gospel with old-fashioned wire-service gusto
Fatlash
Laura Miller
The anti-diet revolution is poised to sweep the nation, but are we really ready for a brave, plump new world?
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