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Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior
Glenn Greenwald
Who thinks a third party candidate like this is a good idea, and why?
The best indie movies of 2007
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir picks the most underappreciated, and most amazing, films to come out of indie-land this year
The year in celebrity scandal
Heather Havrilesky
From attention-seeking celebrities to roving nut jobs with automatic weapons to the self-deluded editors of mean-spirited gossip rags, this is the year that media-savvy lunatics took over the asylum.
TV Daily
Salon Staff
Wednesday: Look back and laugh with TBS's "Funniest Commercials of the Year." Plus: What did you think of Tuesday's "Planet Earth" marathon?
Movies that mattered
Salon Staff
Stephanie Zacharek looks back at the 10 pictures that most delighted, surprised and devastated her in 2007.
Mitt Romney’s pursuit of tyrannical power, literally
Glenn Greenwald
The candidate's answers to key questions of executive power are beyond disturbing.
Everything you know about absinthe is wrong
Sarah Hepola
Banned for a century for inspiring madness and murder, absinthe is legal again. So pour yourself a glass and get to know the real Green Fairy.
Harry Reid’s pro-life stance vs. Ron Paul’s
Glenn Greenwald
Can one be pro-choice and yet lend support to a politician who isn't?
Media hostility toward anti-establishment candidates
Glenn Greenwald
The press coverage accorded to the candidacies of Edwards, Huckabee and Paul reflects their status as outsiders.
Everything you were afraid to ask about “Southland Tales”
Thomas Rogers
Baffled by Richard Kelly's latest apocalyptic epic -- the fluid karma, the biblical references, the space-time rift? Get all your questions answered here.
Campaigning while female
Rebecca Traister
After a close-up of her face appeared on the Drudge Report, Hillary Clinton was found guilty of -- horrors! -- aging.
America’s first Me Generation
Laura Miller
Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?
When cooking is a radical act
Carol Lloyd
Foreign women opening restaurants in Kabul provide stability and comfort to a war-torn area.
The atheist delusion
Steve Paulson
Theologian John Haught explains why science and God are not at odds, why Mike Huckabee worries him, and why Richard Dawkins and other "new atheists" are ignorant about religion.
The ludicrousness of white cachet
Andrew Leonard
A Jaguar with an Indian accent? It simply won't do!
Changes at Salon
Joan Walsh
Michael Scherer leaves, Mike Madden is coming aboard, and welcome Sarah Hepola and James Hannaham!
America’s next top Democrat
Walter Shapiro
With the Iowa vote nearing, Clinton, Obama and Edwards reveal sharp tonal differences, betting the farm not on policy but on political panache.
Child porn or edgy art?
Tracy Clark-Flory
The New York Times publishes a blurry view of a 17-year-old model's breast.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
King Kaufman
The Mitchell Report's main accomplishment may be to highlight the bumbling of Bud Selig.
The look books
Salon Staff
From glamour-pusses to global warming, criminal mug shots to art stars, Salon's seasonal guide to coffee-table books has something to enchant just about everyone.
I secretly hate myself
Cary Tennis
I seem to be OK on the outside, but inside ... you don't even want to know.
The whole “working mother” thing actually works
Carol Lloyd
A new study finds that moms with jobs are happier than their stay-at-home counterparts. Take that, Caitlin Flanagan.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Is "The Kite Runner" worthy of all the fuss? Plus: What's Woody Harrelson doing in an upsetting, innovative and decidedly Oscar-worthy documentary about WWII?
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