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Feingold brings it on
The question is whether Harry Reid will let him bring it to the floor.
In Hurricane Katrina’s surreal backwaters
Bill Sasser
Two years after the deluge: A brew of Hollywood pyrotechnics, homeowner nightmares and local cultural revival in New Orleans.
When Barry passes Hank
Sandy Tolan
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig needs to be there when Barry Bonds makes home run history -- and rise above the race issues that color Bonds in the public eye.
Does “problem talk” depress girls?
Carol Lloyd
Study says that talking things through causes girls greater anxiety and sadness.
Amma’s cosmic squeeze
Erik Davis
My journey into the arms of Amma the hugging saint reminded me that humans are far more than neurologically programmed DNA machines.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Natalie Portman is horribly misused in "Goya's Ghosts." Plus: "Summercamp!" -- the season's saddest, sweetest, most magical and deeply affecting movie.
The Potter leak: Winners and losers (no spoilers)
Farhad Manjoo
What the pre-released version of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" tells us about controlling art in the digital age.
The secret life of sperm
Thomas Rogers
The author of a new book on the social history of "baby gravy" discusses sperm in children's books, the frontiers of artificial insemination and how semen became a TV star.
The true story of Ah Q and semiconductors
Andrew Leonard
A Japanese university hopes invoking the memory of a famous Chinese writer will help attract top engineering talent.
The deep delicious South
Adam Roberts
John T. Edge, America's bard of Southern food, talks about Kool-Aid pickles, eating with the KKK, and how okra might be the ultimate tool of integration.
Why David Vitter matters
Joan Walsh
When right-wing bedroom cops cheat on their spouses with prostitutes, it's hard to defend their privacy rights.
For Harry Potter fans about to rock, we salute you
Elisabeth Donnelly
A global network of Potter-influenced bands inspired kids like 8-year-old Darius to make their own wizard rock. Will fans keep the music alive?
Registering for an abortion?
Tracy Clark-Flory
Indian lawmaker proposes keeping tabs on all pregnant women and only allowing "acceptable" abortions.
Goodbye to Audiofile
Joan Walsh
We're reorganizing our culture department; look for new features to come.
Little outbursts of journalism — what causes them?
Glenn Greenwald
Various media outlets exercise the basic function of journalism by pointing out the deceit behind the President's new Iraq rhetoric.
Flying the child-unfriendly skies
Carol Lloyd
Woman kicked off flight after refusing to medicate her child into silence.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller team up for a trashy take on celebrity culture. Plus: Mind-blowing apocalyptic anime and Kim Ki-duk's fun with monsters.
Microsoft touts new Halo — and takes on Wii, too?
Farhad Manjoo
At the big game convention in L.A., Microsoft announces the special Halo edition Xbox console, plus some controllers that may be aimed at Nintendo's hot system.
If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?
Camille Paglia
Readers weigh in: Bush loyalists, gun lovers, Bach and Bowie fans, soldiers and a poignant letter from the widow of an American lost in Iraq.
Meet the iPhone hackers
Farhad Manjoo
The coding geniuses who are taking apart Apple's hot device say they're within a few days of making it work with cell networks beyond AT&T.
Whisky business
Andrew Leonard
Scotland exports it, India consumes it, but East and West are having a hard time drinking together.
Play peak oil before you live it
Eliza Strickland
Collaborative intelligence wiz Jane McGonigal designs alternate reality games to solve the world's biggest problems. Enviros love her -- but so does the military.
Katie Roiphe’s morning after
Rebecca Traister
With raves for her book dissecting modernist marriages and a hot new journalism job at NYU, has feminism's enfant terrible finally grown up?
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