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Minding our health
Katharine Mieszkowski
If chemo fails, there's always positive thinking, or so we'd like to believe. Medical historian Anne Harrington looks at our persistent faith in curing ourselves.
Blame Muslims for honor killings?
Tracy Clark-Flory
An Op-Ed argues that Western Muslims have to be more self-critical about the horrific practice.
One is the loveliest number
Salon Staff
Members of Salon's reader community, Table Talk, extol the joys of going solo.
Latina teen girls have surprisingly high rate of attempted suicide
Carol Lloyd
Caught between a sexualized culture and a home life demanding modesty, Latinas face a dilemma familiar to girls of all ethnic backgrounds.
Jay Rockefeller’s unintentionally revealing comments
Glenn Greenwald
AT&T's personal senator boasts of feelings of "cockiness" as he battles on behalf of Dick Cheney, telecoms and GOP senators.
Trapped in the grid
Scott Rosenberg
Like electricity, the Web is everywhere and changes everything, says Nicholas Carr. But the one thing it can't deliver is freedom.
What do evangelicals want?
Amanda Silverman
The answer, it turns out, is a little more complicated than "Not Giuliani."
Obama and Clinton on Reagan and Republicans
Joan Walsh
The Clinton team is right about some of Obama's remarks and wrong about others. But the campaign so far has been beanbag compared to what both will face from the GOP in November.
Rape on the rise in Kenya
Lynn Harris
Women and girls -- and men and boys -- under attack in violent "culture of impunity."
Why I hate partner yoga
Catherine Price
Is having my face in a stranger's crotch really helpful for my meditative state?
Could targeting women help with integration of immigrants?
Catherine Price
NPR's Sylvia Poggioli launches a six-part series about European Muslims.
Why campaign coverage sucks
Jay Rosen
Horse-race journalism works for journalists and fails the public.
Barack Obama: “Committed Christian — Called to Bring Change”
Glenn Greenwald
Are there differences between Mike Huckabee's and Barack Obama's overt political appeals as Christians?
Heroes of Katrina, ghost of “Gonzo”
Andrew O'Hehir
An electrifying Katrina documentary blows the doors off at Sundance, and Hunter S. Thompson returns from the dead to eviscerate ski-resort Hollywood reptiles.
Clarence Thomas is not a sellout
James Hannaham
Blacks who challenge affirmative action and other "black orthodoxies" are not betraying their race. Or so argues author Randall Kennedy.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Crisis incites change, from AMC's alarmingly dark dramedy "Breaking Bad" to the History Channel's hilariously ominous special "Life After People."
Desert Storm and the suicidal magicians
Andrew O'Hehir
Alan Ball's "Six Feet Under" follow-up premieres at Sundance. Also: Malkovich as a fading Carson-era magician, Michael Keaton's surprising hit-man flick and more.
Unclear if latest YouTube craze has deep sociological meaning
Salon Staff
A Japanese teenager who might not really be either Japanese or a teenager wins millions of viewers with cutesy, subtly sexual, surreal, mainly pointless videos. Discuss.
Huckabee’s radical religious friends
Alex Koppelman, Vincent Rossmeier
A list of religious extremists linked to the GOP candidate.
“Cloverfield”
Stephanie Zacharek
Do we really need the horror of 9/11 to be repackaged and presented to us as an amusement-park ride?
“Mad Money”
Stephanie Zacharek
Katie Holmes livens up this lackluster caper film -- especially in the scenes where she sticks money in her undies.
TV or not TV?
Salon Staff
How much media do you let in your kids' lives? What's your own relationship to the glowing box? Salon's reader community, Table Talk, weighs in this week.
Breast milk minus the breast
Carol Lloyd
Some mothers who find nursing difficult or "creepy" turn to "exclusive pumping."
Huckabee digs a little deeper
Tim Grieve
A slippery slope between homosexuality and bestiality, but the Bible never changes.
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