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Put away that dirty baseball cap, Harvard grad!
Amy Benfer
Just in time for our national obsession with what money says about us, Sandra Tsing Loh takes on the subject of class.
“American Idol,” post-Heidegger edition
Andrew O'Hehir
From Cornel West in the back seat to Slavoj Zizek at the dump, "Examined Life" offers quick, witty, out-of-context doses of today's leading philosophers.
Karl Rove: Self-deluded or consciously dishonest?
Glenn Greenwald
What mental state allows someone to condemn the very tactics which, as everyone knows, they pioneered and spent years exploiting?
The case against thrift
Judith Levine
The downturn is giving us new excuses for moral flagellation. But saving money won't save your soul.
Rachel Maddow, reluctant sex symbol
Judy Berman
Is the MSNBC anchor ushering in a new era of lesbian chic?
Why can’t a woman write the Great American Novel?
Laura Miller
Female authors hold their own on the bestseller lists, but Elaine Showalter's provocative new history wonders why they get so little respect.
Who is the right calling “loser”?
Gary Kamiya
The GOP is whipping up resentment of Obama and "loafers" who defaulted on home loans. But it crashed the biggest welfare Cadillac in history.
Should I go to grad school or join the military?
Cary Tennis
I've been planning all my life for an academic career, but now I'm afraid of all the debt.
Obama to GOP governors: May I have this dance?
Mike Madden
The White House throws a dinner for governors -- even the Republicans who still say they don't want Obama's stimulus money.
The military’s expanding waistline
Pratap Chatterjee
The U.S. military has become so dependent on outside contractors like KBR that President Obama couldn't sever ties with these corporations even if he wanted to.
The big bang
Salon Staff
Different sides of the gun debate, this week in Salon's Table Talk community.
The new pornographers
Tracy Clark-Flory
What's more disturbing -- that teens are texting each other naked pictures of themselves, or that it could get them branded as sex offenders for life?
Another conservative crusade against a phantom enemy
Alex Koppelman
Forget the Fairness Doctrine -- what about the Freedom of Choice Act that pro-abortion liberals will pass any day now?
Of course we have a headache
Lynn Harris
Why discussions of female desire -- or lack thereof -- miss the big picture
A-Rod’s “medicine”
King Kaufman
Alex Rodriguez doesn't seem to come fully clean, but without fear of baseball's draconian punishments, he offers something in short supply in the war on drugs: Information.
My environmentalist husband won’t let me use the dryer
Cary Tennis
I get by without a car and eat vegetarian, but sometimes it's a bit much.
This war is our war
Joan Walsh
Democrats fought the surge and the surge -- sort of -- won. Now what do we do in Iraq?
Too hot for high school
Judy Berman
Copies of an award-winning student newspaper on "hooking up" mysteriously disappeared. Was it censorship?
The death of the news
Gary Kamiya
If reporting vanishes, the world will get darker and uglier. Subsidizing newspapers may be the only answer.
Your DNA is a snitch
Peter Dizikes
Today's simple genetic tests can reveal your private nature. Just don't expect it to stay secret.
Watching Republicans grieve
Mark Schone
Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi journeyed into the heart of the GOP for her new HBO documentary. She discusses what she found there: Denial, depression and a whole lot of anger.
Love in Brooklyn; death in Naples
Andrew O'Hehir
James Gray's dreamlike "Two Lovers" pairs a tormented Joaquin Phoenix with a bad-girl Gwyneth; ruthless mob drama "Gomorrah" makes Tony Soprano look like a lightweight.
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