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Why are parents miserable?
Lori Leibovich
Judith Warner says that calling parents whiners trivializes their very real concerns.
The riot quiets
Carlene Bauer
The breakup of Sleater-Kinney signifies the end of an era when women made a loud and unapologetic noise -- onstage and in society.
Area man mistakes Onion story for reality
Rebecca Traister
Hapless antiabortion blogger's humiliation spans globe thanks to amazing new "World Wide Web."
Three questions for: Sufjan Stevens
Salon Staff
Sufjan Stevens talks about his new album and the decline of civilization.
Swaggering to nowhere
Sidney Blumenthal
As the Mideast burns and North Korea threatens, the once-boastful president has no policy and is reduced to pathetic bleats.
City of vengeance
Phillip Robertson
A savage outbreak of retaliatory killings has pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. In the first of three exclusive reports, our correspondent investigates the Mahdi Army's Baghdad death squads.
“Strident” and proud
Jessica Valenti
Columnist Katha Pollitt blasts feminism's new timidity and says, "This 'girls just want to have fun' feminism is a very shallow approach to life."
Don Berlusconi
Farhad Manjoo
An excellent political biography of the former prime minister exposes the evil genius of the man who practically owns Italy.
Gay, godly and guilty
Laura Miller
The thoughtful new book "Straight to Jesus" reveals the torment suffered by gay Christians who entered a residential program to battle their sexual desires.
The catastrophe that never ends
Sandy Tolan
As 1.5 million Gazans suffer for one Israeli, Palestinians remember five July days in 1948 when they lost everything -- and the world didn't care.
Tom DeLay, the sequel?
Tim Grieve
A source close to the former House majority leader says he'll run and run hard if the courts won't let him off the November ballot.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Did Michael Jackson try to adopt two more kids? Is People magazine picture-crazy? Plus: "Pirates" topples "Spider-Man"!
The real winners in Mexico
Dick J. Reavis
No matter who the Federal Electoral Tribunal declares the winner in July 2's contested presidential election, the power will belong to someone else.
Cool Jews
David Marchese
We've gone from badasses Lou Reed and James Caan to jackasses Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller. Where are the hip male Jews?
Mo’Nique’s F.A.T. revolution
Lori Leibovich
The host of a reality beauty pageant for the "Fabulous and Thick" says it's time for women to feel comfortable in their own skin.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
What ever happened to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? Witness your favorite vices, neutered, declawed and trussed up in foolish costumes for mass consumption on network TV.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Why do two U.S. airlines fly to Uruguay, but none to Poland? And what does Iceland have that New Zealand doesn't? Inside the mysteries of who flies where.
I’m lost and wasting time
Cary Tennis
I'm nearly 30, but I hate my job and don't know who I'm supposed to be.
The Laws of Manu and semiconductor design
Andrew Leonard
Will affirmative action undermine India's global competitiveness?
“Slacker”: 15 years later
Brian Raftery
Richard Linklater, the pap-smear girl, the JFK guy and others remember the little indie creation that could, and all that came after.
How can I make my brother treat my mother better?
Cary Tennis
He's being thoughtless and insensitive to my mother -- and to me, too!
Destination: Brooklyn
Phillip Lopate
From Betty Smith to Jonathan Lethem to Truman Capote, the chroniclers of this brownstone-lined borough are as diverse as the millions of people who live there.
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