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San Franciscophobia
Garrison Keillor
We're stuck with a terrible war and a worse president, and all the GOP can do is scream, "Pelosi and her Nancy boys are coming"? This is pathetic.
Paris Holiday
H.h.
Dexterous headliners Hen and Bunny take on a particularly tense scene from "The Sopranos."
Election Day
Tim Grieve
It's not November yet, but two races will offer clues about the Democrats' future.
Mockingbird sings
Margot Mifflin
The first biography of the reclusive Harper Lee shows that she contributed much more to "In Cold Blood" than we thought.
It’s a man’s world
Rebecca Traister
"Maddox," the Web programmer turned pop-culture hero whose book "The Alphabet of Manliness" recently leapt to the top of Amazon's sales list, talks about obedient wives, the craze for all things manly, and whether the next generation is going to be "totally puss-onified"
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
A few final words about the cheap wine and sexy uniforms at Cannes -- and a look at summer movies ahead.
Enron changed nothing
Gary Weiss
In the breeding grounds of executive crime, greed still rules. The only lesson corporate America has learned is how to blame everybody else.
What New Orleans needs now is … Laura Bush?
Katharine Mieszkowski
The first lady will visit the devastated city Wednesday.
What’s good for Bill Gates…
Rebecca Clarren
The Microsoft mogul says America needs more foreign engineers and programmers to compete. Critics say it's all about cheap labor.
Missing girls and missing workers
Andrew Leonard
Wanted: Young Chinese women willing to work for nothing.
Where the chick lit is political
Page Rockwell
An Indonesian author talks about the political significance of the much-maligned genre.
Lay and Skilling: Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Andrew Leonard
The people have spoken. Enron's executives are criminals. Who's next?
Spare the quarter-inch plumbing supply line, spoil the child
Lynn Harris
Saying no to "timeouts," some fundamentalist Christians "train up" their children by carefully hitting them with switches, PVC pipes and other "chastening instruments."
Apocalypse now
Salon Staff
Bill Moyers to college grads: "We're really sorry for the mess you're inheriting."
Sports 1, Womanhood 0
Lynn Harris
NPR's Frank Deford laments "the decline of women into the depths of the male athletic syndrome."
Three questions for: T Bone Burnett
Salon Staff
Producer extraordinaire T Bone Burnett talks about his first studio album in 14 years.
A Chinese movie star topples Boing-Boing
Andrew Leonard
The most popular blogger in the world and the Wealth of Nations.
Hurricane Al
Andrew O'Hehir
The new documentary about Al Gore's crusade against global warming brings the notoriously awkward politician into focus as a human being -- but leaves unanswered the question, "Will he run?"
Newsweek: OK, singles, now you can worry about terrorism
Lynn Harris
Twenty years later, the magazine says you might get married after all.
Revealing a 40-year-old horror
Bill Frogameni
The Pulitzer-winning reporters who exposed the U.S. Tiger Force's atrocities in Vietnam discuss why the case was whitewashed -- and its scary parallels to Iraq.
The Democrats and William Jefferson
Tim Grieve
Nancy Pelosi has demanded a lot of resignations in her day. Is it time for another?
Great couch potatoes of history
Gary Kamiya
Inspired by his deadbeat son, former wanderer Tom Lutz explores 250 years of horizontal heroes -- from loungers and "nerve cases" to Beats, playboys and slackers.
Rank insubordination
Laura Miller
The New York Times Book Review's list of the best American novels of the past 25 years revives the threadbare "greatness sweepstakes" view of literature.
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