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Not just cute girls with pom-poms
Lynn Harris
Author Kate Torgovnick peeks inside the competitive world of college cheerleading and finds more than clich
Poor America
Garrison Keillor
Blame our financial woes on poor spellers, like the intellectual charity case in the White House.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn’t the problem
Gary Kamiya
The hysteria over Obama's former pastor's attacks on America shows we're still in thrall to knee-jerk patriotism.
The fine art of battling oil addiction
Dan Hoyle
Why I hope the president of Nigeria will make good on his plans to attend my show on oil politics.
Heidi Montag, “feminist hero”
Tracy Clark-Flory
The New York Times heralds the "Hills" starlet as a role model.
Panic in the pages
Laura Miller
Did comic books -- and the firestorm they touched off in the 1950s -- do more than rock 'n' roll to create the generation gap?
One of Instapundit’s favorite blogs speaks on race
Glenn Greenwald
"I am sick to death of black people as a group ... We're teetering at the edge of believing that you're a secret society, a massive collection of sleeper cells just waiting for your chance to do serious harm to the rest of us."
Expel, expelling, expelled!
Gordy Slack
Richard Dawkins inadvertently smuggled into a private screening of pro-creationist documentary.
Writing through the rubble
Salon Staff
While clouds of destruction hang over Iraq, a set of new books sheds light on how America bungled the war, and on the hope that lingers in small Iraqi towns.
The “War and Peace” of “Space Invaders”
Andrew Leonard
Please, I beg of you -- don't press that button! You have no idea of the heartbreak you will wreak
Who the hell are Heidi and Spencer?
Rebecca Traister
Why the golden age of celebrity gossip is grinding to an end.
Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later
Salon Staff
Just how bad was the looting of Iraq's museum and archaeological sites? According to Salon's experts, many ancient artifacts have come home, but the looting continues.
Barack Obama delivers make-or-break speech on race
Alex Koppelman
The candidate discusses his former pastor, who has been the subject of controversy in recent days, and race in the U.S. generally.
Obama’s speech on race
Salon Staff
Responding to the "divisive turn" the campaign has taken on racial issues, the candidate calls for Americans to "come together and say, 'Not this time.'"
Of war and cancer
Gary Kamiya
Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it.
The lost “Profit”
Kerry Lauerman
The precursor to Tony Soprano and Dexter was a corporate shark with serious daddy issues -- and a yen for cardboard boxes.
Packing heat on polar bears
Katharine Mieszkowski
It's not just the Bush-Cheney oilmen who don't want to list the polar bear as threatened. It's also the trophy hunters and Inuit tribes.
High-level right-wing discourse
Glenn Greenwald
Examining the ideas expressed in the last 24 hours from the right's most respectable venue of political thought.
What’s the matter with kids today?
Amy Goldwasser
Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains.
The rise of the superclass
Laura Miller
Are Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch, the pope and Osama bin Laden part of a new global power elite that may make traditional governments obsolete?
Nothing makes any sense anymore. I’m at the end of my rope
Cary Tennis
For years I have done my bit to listen, to pretend, to nod in agreement: But now I see this is all meaningless. There is nothing there!
This year’s SXSW discoveries
Andrew O'Hehir
From America's indie-most film festival, here are 10 exciting new films -- Safe-sex warriors! Harry Potter fans! White guys who rap! -- you really ought to seek out.
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