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What else we’re reading
Tracy Clark-Flory
Breaking news: A definitive answer to the age-old question of what women want!
Freedom’s not just another word
Laura Miller
George Lakoff, bestselling author of "Don't Think of an Elephant," says that liberals have foolishly allowed conservatives to claim ownership of "freedom" -- even though the progressive version is the one Americans actually believe in.
Do I get a manicure with this sermon?
Tracy Clark-Flory
Sociologist calls wave of female Muslim preachers "fashionable."
Destination: New England
David Gates
This stern landscape spawned the first titans of American literature -- and the obsessions with religion, race and guilty sex that still haunt us.
What else we’re reading
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
World Cup marketers drop the ball on women, the female testosterone patch, British raunchiness and more.
I dropped out of psych graduate school and don’t know what to do!
Cary Tennis
I majored in film and media, but thought it was too impractical.
Lessons learned: The message matters, but so does the machine
Tim Grieve
Inside the Republicans' Voter Vault database.
Capture the flag
Michael Scherer
Republicans are pushing an absurd flag-burning amendment. Will their mom 'n' apple pie ploy torch the Democrats?
Who are you?
Laura Miller
More and more people are trying to trace their ancestry with a quick DNA test. A new book -- and my own experiment -- show that science can reveal some interesting things about your past, but not necessarily what you want to know.
Destination: Venice
Allen Barra
Get to the city of canals before it disappears -- and don't forget to grab Calvino, James and, of course, Thomas Mann.
Bite me!
Page Rockwell
Bad-boy chef and globe-trotting gourmet Anthony Bourdain gets frank about rude vegans, Rachael Ray and why restaurants are America's last meritocracy.
Kindie rock
Scott Lamb
Roll over, Raffi! A new wave of kids artists, most of them former grown-up rockers, are making music for 5-year-olds that the rest of us can listen to without wanting to die.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
With its 2006 World Cup over, what the U.S. needs is a flamboyant, charismatic coach to sell an exciting version of the game to elite young American athletes.
Score one for the Yanks
Pete L'Official
Yes, the USA team went down in ignominy at the World Cup. But guess what? World soccer fans were loving us in Germany.
Must I always be haunted by the loss of my one true love?
Cary Tennis
She was everything I'd ever dreamed of. Then there was the screech of tires on a dark street...
Joking about rape to lighten the mood
Tracy Clark-Flory
Rev. Dominic Wamugunda tells a joke about rape during a sexual health conference aimed at reducing the rape rate in Kenya.
The artist as mad scientist
Kevin Berger
She is an intellectual and emotional storm. Her renowned public artworks are reshaping the ways we think about science. Activist, environmentalist and former rock promoter Natalie Jeremijenko turns the art world upside down.
Destination: Central Asia
Tom Bissell
Secrets of "the 'stans," lands of raw beauty and uninspiring governments, revealed with help from a Kyrgyz novelist and an expert on militant Islam.
My mother died when I was 16 and I never dealt with it
Cary Tennis
My wife tells me I'm only half-present -- could there be some connection?
What else we’re reading
Lynn Harris
Breast-feeding barrages, Mississippi sieges, Plan B border-crossings, and more.
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