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War of the blogs
Scott Rosenberg
New books by Instapundit and Kos present dueling visions of the future -- as libertarian paradise or populist battleground.
Pornography on campus
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
More colleges are offering courses on the effect of porn on our lives.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
When sports niches clash: Radio host Colin Cowherd's use of a blog's material highlighted a cultural gap. Plus: Women's Tournament.
The moviegoers
Laura Miller
Film critics let us know what's worth seeing on the big screen, but they've also been fighting our fiercest cultural battles for nearly a century
Dropping shopping
Melena Ryzik
I tried to kick my retail addiction (I have 200 pairs of shoes) for 12 days. It wasn't pretty -- but I did have a drink with Norman Mailer.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Strange sculpture celebrates Spears pregnancy. Spurlock and Smith spark school scandals. Plus: How many lovers has Streisand had, anyway?
Mr. Ruckus
Bill Katovsky
John Sellers climbed the Sears Tower to protest nukes and unfurled an anti-logging banner over the Golden Gate. The left's Merry Prankster talks.
Chinese adoptions raise questions of identity
Sarah Goldstein
More and more girls are adopted from China each year. Now, questions of cultural identity are finally coming to the fore.
Scoring feminism
Tracy Clark-Flory
A writer argues that the true feminists are those who are fighting against intolerance in Islam.
The oil is going, the oil is going!
Katharine Mieszkowski
Today's Paul Reveres of "peak oil" aren't waiting for Washington to save us from apocalypse. They're already planting gardens and drafting city plans for the days when oil is gone.
“Showzen” people
Matt Haber
MTV2's "Wonder Showzen" aims to do for childhood innocence what "Chappelle's Show" did for racial sensitivity. Just don't call it "'Sesame Street' on acid."
3 Questions for: Billy Bragg
Salon Staff
Lawyers and chick lit and sperm, oh my!
Rebecca Traister
The Sunday New York Times: Now with more chicks.
The battle to ban birth control
Priya Jain
Using bogus health facts to scare women about the "dangers" of contraception, a fledgling movement fights for a culture in which sex = procreation.
Early signs: Reports from a warming planet
Sandy Tolan
U.C. Berkeley journalists traveled the world to report on the front lines of climate change.
Baghdad: The besieged press
Orville Schell
Holed up in fortified compounds, at constant risk of death when they venture out, reporters in Iraq are increasingly cut off from the hideous reality outside.
Decline and fall
Michelle Goldberg
Kevin Phillips, no lefty, says that America -- addicted to oil, strangled by debt and maniacally religious -- is headed for doom.
Iraq: The big lie
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush and Rumsfeld robotically repeat their Iraq talking points, ignoring the fact that their ambassador and generals are contradicting them.
Putting out for women
Rebecca Traister
Martha Stewart played nice at this year's glittery, bipartisan Women's Campaign Fund benefit -- but Al Franken couldn't resist tormenting the GOP.
I’m 28. How do I grow up?
Cary Tennis
Certain choices seem safe but boring. Others seem cool but dumb. What to do?
Anorexia determined by genes
Sarah Goldstein
A new study finds more than half the risk for developing anorexia is genetic.
A truce in the “Mommy Wars”
Helaine Olen
Politicians, the media -- and women themselves -- hype the work vs. stay-home issue as a catfight. But a new book says the real war is within each woman.
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