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Oil and food don’t mix
Eli Rosenberg
Congress just handed petroleum- and chemical-guzzling industrial farms five more years of wrongheaded subsidies, but chef Dan Barber says sustainable, organic food will yet prevail.
YouTube to run ads on videos: Will it pay you and me?
Farhad Manjoo
YouTube will "overlay" commercials on top of its videos. Will it share revenues with people who submit popular clips?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
With the announcement of a guilty plea on dogfighting charges, Michael Vick's once-thrilling football career ends in a cloud of stupid cruelty.
Are Democrats really so lame?
Joan Walsh
Republicans are on the ropes, but yet another mainstream media star says it's Democrats who are in trouble, thanks to Bush-hating bloggers and billionaires. Here we go again.
Pit bulls are innocent
Ken Foster
State proposals to ban pit bulls reflect society's worst fears and prejudices. As the Michael Vick scandal has made clear, it is humans and not the dogs who are the criminals.
The poisonous rhetorical legacy of Karl Rove
Juan Cole
Even Fox's Chris Wallace wants to know why Bush's newly departed advisor had to paint Democrats as traitors.
“The Invasion”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The pod people are back -- and they're coming for Nicole Kidman.
In meth we trust
Elizabeth Hand
Two riveting books look at methamphetamines past and present -- from miracle cure to today's drug scourge -- and why sleep-deprived, sex-obsessed America craves crank.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Leonardo DiCaprio wants you to save the world. Plus: A chat with the man who gave Brad Pitt his start (interview and podcast).
Test-tube nation
Jennifer Niesslein
Beth Kohl, author of the new book "Embryo Culture," talks about abortion, faith and her personal struggle with the ethics of assisted reproduction.
Postpone the rise of the machines
Andrew Leonard
Bad news for our would-be robot masters: Computers are befuddled by recent stock market behavior.
The religious state of Islamic science
Steve Paulson
Turkish-American physicist Taner Edis explains why science in Muslim lands remains stuck in the past -- and why the Golden Age of Mesopotamia wasn't so golden after all.
What’s wrong with Alaska?
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Every member of Alaska's all-GOP congressional delegation is embroiled in scandal.
Baby branding
Carol Lloyd
Why the current cultural obsession with unique -- and sometimes bizarre -- baby names?
Plastic bags are killing us
Katharine Mieszkowski
The most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, the lowly plastic bag is an environmental scourge like none other, sapping the life out of our oceans and thwarting our attempts to recycle it.
Ask the Pilot
Patrick Smith
What have we come to when foreign airlines tout around-the-world travel that avoids the U.S.? Plus: Make your own airline route maps. And: Wizz Air?
How strong is the Democratic presidential field?
Thomas F. Schaller
Not as strong as you think. A devil's advocate probes for weaknesses among the front-runners.
Art movies: R.I.P.
Camille Paglia
Long before Bergman and Antonioni died, the mystical art-house film experience faded to black. Plus: How rock can rehabilitate, and a vote for Kelly Clarkson.
Blood and bile and phlegm, oh my!
Andrew O'Hehir
Before germ theory, humoral medicine -- based on magical thinking and ignorant of human anatomy -- dominated for 2,000 years. So why are today's doctors guided by some surprisingly similar principles?
Conversations: Steven Okazaki
Andrew O'Hehir
The filmmaker behind "White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" shares the survivors' stories he explores in his devastating documentary. An interview and podcast.
The strong and tough Democrats
Glenn Greenwald
The capitulation on FISA is as politically self-destructive as it is unconscionable on the merits.
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