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Among the ruins of Henry Ford’s America
Greg Grandin
In the 1920s the auto titan strove to export his empire to the Amazon rain forest. Have you read a parable lately?
Remembering Farrah
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A '70s icon and pinup queen, she redefined beauty -- and allowed us to glimpse the ugliness of her cancer
Iran? The U.S. should mind its own business
Jeanne Carstensen
Iranian-American journalist Hooman Majd separates facts from fantasies about the Iranian protests
The secrets of Iranian transsexuals
Sarah Hepola
What happens in a society where sex-change operations are legal but homosexuality is punishable by death?
Why your marriage sucks
Amanda Fortini
Passion has died, argues author Cristina Nehring, taking domestic bliss with it. But is romance really in crisis?
A guide to vampire fiction with real bite
Laura Miller
The spirit of the Vampire Slayer lives on in the kickass young heroines of urban fantasy fiction
Tiananmen and Tehran: A second look
Andrew Leonard
Ahmadinejad's bane? China has no "culture of martyrdom" to match Iran's
Bush officials: Where are they now?
Nick Turse
The unemployment rate is high around the country -- but not for former Bush officials. A guide to who's cashing in
Contradictions that aren’t seen as contradictory
Glenn Greenwald
The only profession more accountability-free than politics is political reporting.
I’m stuck in Atlanta, he’s stuck in Seattle
Cary Tennis
My work is here, his work is there: How will we ever get together?
Email from John Harris: regrets dispute with Dan Froomkin
Glenn Greenwald
The then-National Political Editor of the Post revisits his objections to Froomkin's journalism.
Obama, the Right and defendants’ rights
Glenn Greenwald
There is much criticism of the Supreme Court for denying the right of DNA testing, but the Obama DOJ supported that
Roundup: Movies not to miss
Andrew O'Hehir
Which is worse: The Lyme disease coverup, the devastation of global fisheries or undead Nazis in Norway?
Land of the lost global warming skeptics
Andrew Leonard
Does Will Ferrell have any idea that there is a subversive climate change subplot in his movie?
Mousavi posts slick video on protests
Mike Madden
The leading opposition candidate in Iran's election puts a U.S.-style Web video out to highlight the protests there
The Washington Post, Dan Froomkin and the establishment media
Glenn Greenwald
The firing of one of the very few real journalists in the establishment press reveals much about what it is.
Why we can’t eat just one
Katharine Mieszkowski
We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving?
Woman chooses abortion, on advice of blog
Lynn Harris
Motherlode commenters offer support, solutions, even civility on a painfully loaded topic
Pulling yourself up by the $20,000 bootstraps
Amy Benfer
College loans shouldn't create a class of the "educated poor"
White male seeking sexy Asian women
Laura Miller
What is the deal with Western men's erotic obsession with the East?
Voluntary childlessness “unnatural” and “evil”
Kate Harding
It can't be coincidental that vitriol directed at child-free women looks so much like antiabortion rhetoric.
Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
Matt Kennard
Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks.
How to talk about abortion
Frances Kissling
President Obama wants supporters and opponents of choice to find "common ground." Can that really happen?
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