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The mix master
Gary Kamiya
Barack Obama's candidacy spells the end of the one-drop rule and the beginning of a painful but necessary exploration of the real meaning of race in America.
Battle of the skyscrapers
Frank Hornig, Bernhard Zand, Ulrike Knöfel
A building frenzy is raging in Asia, Russia and the Persian Gulf. And cities like New York don't have the money to compete. Will the West soon look outdated?
Clinton news roundup
Sarah Hepola
What does the end of her historic presidential campaign mean for women?
And baby daddy makes three
Katharine Mieszkowski
Memoirist Mary Pols talks about coparenting with her one-night stand.
Summer reads
Salon Staff
True confessions: From a trek through the American West to a life filled with music, these memoirs will whisk you away.
Waterlogged
Katharine Mieszkowski
"Bottlemania" author Elizabeth Royte explains how one of life's necessities became an extravagance, denounced by environmentalists and nuns alike.
Critics’ Picks
Salon Staff
What you need to see, read, do this week: A great doc about Roman Polanski, Jeff Koons reconsidered, and "bad dates" with Robert De Niro.
David Broder: Embodiment of Beltway values
Glenn Greenwald
The press corps Dean who led the attempt to drive Bill Clinton from office dismisses the crimes of the Bush years as mere "policy disputes"
“Mother of Tears: The Third Mother”
Stephanie Zacharek
Orgies! Eviscerations! Power-crazed witches! As sick and twisted as this horror movie is, it's also full of life.
Democrats, put down your swords
Joe Conason
Mourn defeat, yes, but the destruction wreaked by the Bush administration leaves little room for factional fights and identity politics between today and Nov. 4.
The real consequences when America is at war
Chris Hedges
We may not want to admit it, but the war in Iraq is now primarily about murder.
Salon’s guide to summer music festivals
Charly Wilder, Judy Berman
Radiohead! Kanye! My Bloody Valentine! Dylan! Here's what to catch -- and what to skip -- on the festival circuit this summer.
Daughters of Iraq
Tracy Clark-Flory
Charged with preventing suicide bombings, the female guards can't carry guns or work in public.
Scenes from a group marriage
Laird Harrison
I was a normal 9-year-old boy with two parents. And then, after a fateful camping trip, I had four.
The superheroes of “Sex and the City”
Catherine Price
Are Carrie and the gang the high-heeled equivalents of the Incredible Hulk?
What role did race play with white Democrats?
Mark Schone
As the primaries end, a round table of experts -- Tom Schaller, Ruy Teixeira and Sean Wilentz -- weighs the influence of white racism on the Clinton vs. Obama contest.
We are what we buy
Laura Miller
Do the brands we buy and the things we own define who we are? Like it or not, two new books say they do.
Would you like some books with that tote bag?
Laura Miller
This year's Book Expo America attendees snatched up totes, celebrity autographs -- oh yeah, and some books.
Mortgaging our credit card debt
Andrew Leonard
For a few years, the housing bubble helped Americans pay their plastic bills. Not anymore.
I’m on vacation. But you can help out!
Andrew O'Hehir
Seeking suggestions: Best movies for kids, non-current, non-Disney (or at least non-CGI) and non-obvious preferred.
Will Clinton or Obama be voted off the island?
Mike Madden
Puerto Rico may not provide Hillary Clinton with a national popular vote victory, much less those extra half-million votes Rob Reiner was talking about.
The right-wing Politico cesspool
Glenn Greenwald
Mike Allen, its national political correspondent, says that Bush opponents and critics are "left wing haters."
Those dirty girls
Susannah Breslin
Did "Sex and the City" change the erotic landscape or turn the female libido into a marketing ploy? Sex writers discuss the iconic show's impact.
A Scott McClellan flashback
Joan Walsh
Here's what Cintra Wilson saw when she passed for a White House correspondent in July 2005.
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