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No direction home
Bill Sasser
Mardi Gras Indian chief Kevin Goodman lost family and his home to Hurricane Katrina. Can the New Orleans he loved resurface again?
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Will any of the new comedies make you laugh? Maybe not, but if you miss Alec Baldwin's star turn on NBC's "30 Rock," you'll be sorry.
Get your laws off my family
Sarah Goldstein
Although the majority of U.S. households are headed by unmarried individuals, cohabitation remains illegal in seven states.
Killing time
David Matthews
As murder rates climb alongside the mercury, I'm downright nostalgic for the inner-city homicides of my youth.
Streets of ire
Sarah Karnasiewicz
This summer, cities across the U.S. have reported frightening surges in youth violence. After a decade-long reprieve, what's gone wrong?
My dream TV show, Part 2
Salon Staff
Mark Cuban, James Frey, Meghan Daum, Rich Cohen, Heather Havrilesky, Aaron Shure and Greg Gutfeld tell us what they want to watch.
Exclusive Daily Download: “Hard Times (Come Again No More),” Mavis Staples
Salon Staff
An exclusive download from a Grammy-winning release.
Henry Jenkins’ westward journey
Andrew Leonard
More fun with fantasy gaming and the history of Sino-Japanese hostility
Algae, open source and India
Andrew Leonard
Phytoplanktonic petroleum and the reincarnation of Tenali Ramakrishna.
George Allen raises money for Jim Webb
Michael Scherer
Since the Virginia senator said "macaca," the polls -- and the cash - have moved in his Democratic challenger's direction.
Method anchor
Neal Gabler
Star newsman Anderson Cooper is defined less by his experience than by an old-fashioned Hollywood marketing campaign.
Cityscape of fear
Farhad Manjoo
American architecture is still reeling from the 9/11 attacks. Critics and architects say that security now trumps design, as barricades and mall-like plazas are sucking the soul out of urban life.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Osama bin Laden obsessed with Whitney Houston? HBO rakes in Creative Arts Emmys. Plus: Busta Rhymes ... busted.
When pythons attack
Philip Armour
When a giant python in Florida tried to swallow an alligator -- and blew up! -- local pundits had a field day. But nobody's laughing at how the wayward pets are strangling the life out of the Everglades.
Stepping in “macaca”
Michael Scherer
With his Confederate-flag-draped past, Sen. George Allen is in trouble for using a term for monkeys -- and a racial slur elsewhere in the world -- to ridicule a dark-skinned man at a campaign rally.
Actually, hell is other people
Lisa Selin Davis
A new study says Americans have fewer friends than ever -- but what if we're enjoying more solitude and intimacy?
Life goes on
Ian Chang
In a heroic memoir, Donald Antrim explores his relationship with his late mother -- a troubled alcoholic he couldn't live with, or without.
What else we’re reading
Page Rockwell
Helping women protect themselves against AIDS, opinions from Ellen Goodman and Susan J. Douglas, and more.
Inside the Iraqi forces fiasco
David J. Morris
The U.S. effort to train Iraqi forces -- and bring our troops home -- is mired in bureaucratic mismanagement, inept recruits and astonishing shortages of equipment.
The next New Orleans
Katharine Mieszkowski
The author who predicted Katrina now forecasts watery catastrophe for New York, Houston and Miami in "The Ravaging Tide."
MTV2 “satire” puts black women on leashes
Tracy Clark-Flory
A cartoon depicts black women collared, crawling on all fours and defecating on the floor.
Obese infants, dieting moms
Katharine Mieszkowski
Babies who are too fat, and moms who teach their kids to fret every calorie. When will it end?
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