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Slipped through the cracks
Joe Coscarelli
Maybe the empty nest isn't so empty after all. Plus: remembering Kamala Das, Madonna's adoption and more
Letterman and Palin: Both jerks!
Kate Harding
The comedian's jokes about the Alaska governor and her daughter were out of line. So is her response.
The CIA’s secret history of psychological torture
Alfred McCoy
Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path?
Why is Tiller’s alleged killer doing press conferences?
Gene Lyons
Listen instead to the people giving testimonials to the doctor: His family, his patients, his colleagues.
Von Brunn’s letter to Jim Webb
Salon Staff
While in prison, alleged Holocaust Museum shooter sent Webb a long anti-Semitic missive seeking help with a pardon
Chairwoman Slaughter: FOIA as sacred as Social Security and Medicare
Glenn Greenwald
A key House member explains her opposition to a new law empowering the President to suppress evidence of torture
How to go viral
Vincent Rossmeier
The man who created flash mobs explains why crazes like Susan Boyle ruin our ability to focus on the big picture.
Obama’s hit — and big miss
Camille Paglia
His Cairo speech was good -- but good enough? Plus: U2, Depeche Mode and one "wise Latina"
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Andrew Leonard
"It was the bloodiest battle the world ever saw, with civilians looking on in total awe."
The perfect first family. Dammit
Amanda Fortini
Are the Obamas setting an unrealistic standard for marriage?
Summer is coming, hide the virgins!
Tracy Clark-Flory
As the weather heats up, so do abstinence advocates over chastity.
Swedish pirates invade European Parliament
Andrew Leonard
"We are not red, blue or green. We are just pirates."
Obama’s poor choice for faith leader
Frances Kissling
Why did a pro-choice president appoint someone to HHS who is against abortion AND birth control? Political payback?
New GOP counsel disputed many anti-Sotomayor talking points
Glenn Greenwald
Orin Kerr: Sotomayor is "like a liberal mirror image of Samuel Alito" and "a pretty conservative pick".
Slipped through the cracks
Joe Coscarelli
A man goes through menopause. Plus: the health benefits of a May-December marriage, feminist spanking and more.
Obama, Wiesel speak at former concentration camp
Alex Koppelman
The president tours Buchenwald with a famous Holocaust survivor, who delivered some powerful remarks
Crackpots calling the kettle black
Joe Conason
Race-baiting lowlights from Rush Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan, two of the pundits who say Sonia Sotomayor is racist.
Obama befriends the hijab
Tracy Clark-Flory
In a speech at Cairo University, the president gets some help from the head scarf.
Head of pro-life group gets job at HHS
Mike Madden
The founder of a pro-life Catholic organization is named to run faith-based outreach at Health and Human Services.
The triumph of the uncelebrity
Heather Havrilesky
Jon and Kate! Octo-Mom! Speidi! Stars are out, ordinary people are in -- until we render them as soulless as celebs
What should I read next?
Allen Barra
Aleksandar Hemon's fictional alter ego drinks and writes his way through exile in these superb coming-of-age tales.
“This cycle of suspicion and discord must end”
Salon Staff
The full text of President Obama's speech at Cairo University
Excuse me, do you speak Klingon?
Andrew O'Hehir
A delightful journey through the realm of invented languages and its cast of dreamers, weirdos and obsessives.
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