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“Beauty and the Geek” finds Aphrodite’s inner Athena
Sarah Goldstein
Subverting gender stereotypes one reality show at a time.
Eating disorders in the spotlight at Sundance
Sarah Karnasiewicz
"Girl culture" photographer Lauren Greenfield premieres a devastating new documentary.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
As Jennifer Aniston and her celebrity friends sweep up the accolades in Park City, one thing is clear: Sundance has lost its cultural mojo.
No Bush, please — we’re Canadian
David Beers
Canada just elected a right-wing prime minister, Stephen Harper. But he had to distance himself as far as possible from George W. Bush to win.
Did Reagan win the Cold War?
Laura Miller
John Lewis Gaddis' history succinctly captures the long faceoff that shaped our world. But his analysis is marred by Reagan worship.
Saudi women blog about oppression
Page Rockwell
The Web lets young Saudi Arabian women rage against the machine.
I left the suburbs for Chicago, but there’s a boy back home
Cary Tennis
Here I am at the crossroads. What would you do?
The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch
Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Mike Jeffries turned a moribund company into a multibillion-dollar brand by selling youth, sex and casual superiority. Not bad for a 61-year-old in flip-flops.
The Fix
Salon Staff
A look back at the pundits who predicted box office woe for "Brokeback." Plus: Bye-bye, "West Wing." Hello, baby J.Lo?
Global fishiness
Charles Fishman
How can Wal-Mart sell Chilean salmon for $4.84 a pound? An excerpt from "The Wal-Mart Effect."
My life as a man
Andrew O'Hehir
Dressed in drag, Norah Vincent visited strip clubs and dated women to find out what it means to be a man. She ended up in the loony bin.
“Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World”
Stephanie Zacharek
Albert Brooks brings people of all religions together for a great big group yawn.
Can’t stand the heat? Turn off the comments
Tim Grieve
The Post's ombudsman gets it wrong on Abramoff. The editors are tired of hearing about it.
Jill Carroll’s Iraq dispatches
Salon Staff
Nearly a year before she was abducted in Baghdad, freelance reporter Jill Carroll covered Iraq's legislative election for Salon.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
In his explosive new film, "Why We Fight," Eugene Jarecki argues that America went to war in Iraq because war is what America does best.
“Invisible in Hollywood: Jewish women”
Lynn Harris
A women's studies prof can't recall the last time she saw a richly textured Jewish female character onscreen.
Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and the GOP blow-back
Tim Grieve
The response is personal, nasty and false.
My lunch with an antifeminist pundit
Rebecca Traister
Kate O'Beirne, author of the new book "Women Who Make the World Worse," says most women don't want the things feminists are fighting for.
Freedom and equality: Un-American activities
Andrew O'Hehir
A master historian argues that Reconstruction ideals, far from reflecting America's deepest values, contradicted them
2006: Bush’s Waterloo?
Tom Engelhardt
From Iraq to Plamegate to an angry bureaucracy, the coming year holds mortal dangers for Bush. But he still has some cards to play.
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