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How secure are you?
Camille Paglia
Petraeus' empty words and the real terror threat. Plus: Larry Craig's libidinal misstep is grounded in modern male sexuality.
Hit her, baby, one more time
Rebecca Traister
MTV hired Britney Spears to make an ass of herself and she sadly complied. The humiliation continues.
Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level
Glenn Greenwald
Gen. Petraeus gives an exclusive "interview" that was scripted by the U.S. military and designed to bolster every claim of the Bush administration.
The real lessons of 9/11
Gary Kamiya
The attacks exposed grave weaknesses in our nation's defenses, our national institutions and ultimately our national character.
Mister bean
Tracie McMillan
Ken Albala, author of "Beans: A History," discusses the social and culinary impact of the humble legume.
The ballad of slumgum and foulbrood
Andrew Leonard
Is Australia getting a bad rap for honeybee woes? What about Chinese royal jelly and the World Trade Organization?
TV’s triumphant overclass
Heather Havrilesky
Television continues to grow positively filthy with the filthy rich. And where is the middle class? Demeaning itself for money on reality and game shows, of course
A plague of bloodsuckers
Andrew Leonard
In Japan, reforestation, population decline and global warming have set off a land leech invasion.
Jesus is my dorm advisor
Elizabeth Svoboda
Patrick Henry College grooms fundamentalist kids to be America's future leaders. A new book looks at how these elite students cope with the pressure to bridge secular and religious worlds.
Burqini creator hearts “Opus”
Tracy Clark-Flory
Aheda Zanetti says the widely censored "Opus" comic strip featuring her creation is "fantastic" and not the least bit offensive.
National Review’s new tough guy, Mark Hemingway
Glenn Greenwald
Seeking a concise and creative title to describe the faux masculinity warriors on the right.
Remembrance of tacos past
Mark Dery
I may have grown up to be a foodie, but I still think fondly of Taco Bell and its mushy burritos and fast-food mission facades.
The ballad of Ramos and Compean
Alex Koppelman
How the anti-immigration right -- and Lou Dobbs -- turned two rogue Border Patrol agents into heroes and got Congress on their side.
The 18 best Jewish ballplayers of all time
Jonah Keri
With bashin' boychiks knocking the seam off the ball this year, Salon highlights the greatest Hebrew hammers and fireballers to step onto the diamond.
The GOP’s crowded closet
Joe Conason
The party's culture of concealment has led to embarrassment and personal destruction. Isn't it about time for the right to cure its homophobia?
I’ve had three miscarriages and my husband won’t wear a yarmulke
Cary Tennis
I'm struggling on too many fronts -- religion, fertility, parenting philosophy, even employment.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
A Grown-up Moviegoer's Bill of Rights! Plus: The shifting puzzle pieces of "The Nines."
Casual hookups cause “gray rape”?
Tracy Clark-Flory
Cosmopolitan reports on a "confusing form of sexual assault" caused in part by sexually forward women.
“It ain’t easy in the Big Easy”
Larry Blumenfeld
While well-meaning programs seek to restore New Orleans' battered "cultural wetlands," two years after Katrina many musicians still struggle to survive.
Rogers: Craig “should be open and honest”
Alex Koppelman
The activist who first outed Craig says his party affiliation may explain his behavior.
The waning power of the War Myth
Gary Kamiya
As Iraq dies, Bush is falling back on his old standby: Patriotic blackmail. But this time it won't work.
How our seedy, corrupt Washington establishment operates
Glenn Greenwald
The undisclosed lobbying efforts to depose Prime Minister Maliki by influential Bush associates shine light on how filthy the Beltway is.
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