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Rants and race
Salon Staff
The terrors of travel, and why race still matters, this week in Table Talk.
Harry the hypocrite — or not
Tim Grieve
The Washington Times says Reid is a top target of Abramoff investigators. A source close to the probe says it isn't so.
A look at women’s lives in Kurdistan
Sarah Karnasiewicz
Despite premature marriages and self-immolation, slow progress is underway.
California’s environmental bad boy
Amanda Griscom Little
Republican Rick Pombo wants to drill, mine and develop America down to the last acre. But will close ties to Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff pollute his reelection chances?
We shall overcome … liberals
Michelle Goldberg
At a black church in Philadelphia, Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece joined Jerry Falwell and Rick Santorum to denounce critics of Samuel Alito.
Sinfully bad TV
Gordon Atkinson
A real live preacher weighs in on NBC's "The Book of Daniel" and the unholy outrage from the religious right.
Why am I obsessed with celebrity gossip?
Cary Tennis
Instead of writing poetry, I'm checking out IMDB.
King George
Tom Engelhardt
It is slowly becoming clear that the Bush administration's real goal is not winning the right to torture, or to spy on Americans, or to lock people up without recourse. It is absolute power.
Reformed school girl
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Christine Rosen attended a fundamentalist Christian school, but the doctrinaire teachings -- and the scary sex-ed classes -- couldn't stem the tide of her questions.
Food slut
Ann Bauer
People say great food is like great sex. But after two years of reviewing trendy restaurants, chatting with charming chefs, and indulging in fatted duck breast, I've lost my appetite.
The joy of sex writing
David Amsden
Two bold collections of essays about the most intimate of acts prove that good sex makes a great memory, but bad sex makes a great story.
The year in politics
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush began 2005 celebrating his electoral victory and proclaiming a "turning point" in Iraq. But in every crisis he faced this year -- from Terri Schiavo to Hurricane Katrina to Iraq -- the tide turned against him
The year in sports
King Kaufman
In a no-nonsense 2005, Terrell Owens and BALCO fizzled, while the hard-working Pats, Spurs, White Sox and Colts sizzled.
“The New World”
Stephanie Zacharek
Colin Farrell and Christian Bale are totally wasted in this superstatic triangular love story.
Delta, Delta, Delta, Feminist, Feminist, Feminist?
Lynn Harris
A sorority at Trinity College aims to redefine sisterhood.
Reading “Lolita” in Alabama
Allen Barra
Fifty years after its publication, and 20 after my first reading, Nabokov's masterpiece is still dangerous -- but not for the reasons you might think.
Survival of the unfittest
Gordy Slack
A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that intelligent design is not fit for science classes. But I.D. remains rooted in U.S. schools, where science teachers are pressured to address God in the classroom.
Ice queen
Katharine Mieszkowski
In Antarctica, Gretchen Legler found a tribe of eccentrics living at 70-below under the biggest ozone hole on earth. She also found love.
“Freedom”: No documents found
Stephan Faris
America's most popular Internet companies are helping China crack down on free speech.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Tommy Lee Jones on his striking, darkly funny directorial debut. Plus: Two movies tailor-made for fans of the truly peculiar.
The war against Prius “smugmobiles”
Andrew Leonard
The Wall Street Journal says that hybrid owners aren't saving fuel. Are they jealous, or just crazy?
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