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The Fix
Salon Staff
Britney battles sex tape/divorce rumors. Cruise promotes cooking-oil cure. PETA denudes Anna Wintour. Plus: Stern rips into Leno.
Living single
Rachel Safier
In a new book, sociologist E. Kay Trimberger says the "new single woman" is successful, social, smart -- and loving life on her own.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy remembered
Dana Cook
Russell Baker, David Frost, Larry King, Gloria Steinem, Tip O'Neill and others recall their encounters with the legendary senator.
I want my men TV
Rebecca Traister
Apparently, men like complex creepy characters on television. And why shouldn't they?
Rise of the new black leaders
Chris Thompson
A new generation of black politicians is striving to put racial patronage and civic corruption behind it, and unite an increasingly diverse nation.
‘Tis the season to obsess about food
Ayelet Waldman
Thanksgiving yams, Chanukah latkes, Christmas cookies ... for me, they all add up to a holiday-size serving of self-hatred.
The World Cup cometh
Andrew O'Hehir
The U.S. may not survive the first round against Italy, the Czech Republic and Ghana. But nobody said getting respect on the global soccer stage was going to be easy.
American Girl vows to “Save Girlhood”
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
The doll retailer's new ad campaign laments that girls are growing up too fast.
The latest on the Abercrombie “girlcott”
Page Rockwell
The girls who got the "I make you look fat" T-shirt pulled off the shelves meet with A&F to pitch some girl-positive design ideas.
Honor killings in the liberated Iraq
Farhad Manjoo
In Iraq, the practice of killing rape victims to preserve a family's honor persists. And Americans aren't doing much to stop it.
“Memoirs of a Geisha”
Stephanie Zacharek
Pile into the rickshaw for a slooooooow ride: This
very serious, very long, very pretty picture never
really gets moving.
A pro-globalization minifesto
Andrew Leonard
The Inuit don't want to be footnotes of the global economy. But that doesn't mean they have to be anti-globalization.
Imagine all the people
Dana Cook
Howard Cosell, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Crosby, Kate Millett, Timothy Leary, Geraldo Rivera and others recall their encounters with John Lennon, who died 25 years ago today.
A “loss of will” and capitulation “to the worst elements in our culture”
Tim Grieve
People, it's just a Christmas card, for Christ's sake.
Michael Schiavo joins the fray
Michael Scherer
Terri Schiavo's husband starts a PAC devoted to defeating the Bible-thumping politicians who used his comatose wife as a football.
All quiet on the gay western front
Scott Lamb
Not wanting to give their foes free publicity, right-wing Christian groups say they won't boycott or picket "Brokeback Mountain."
The real Calamity Jane
Margot Mifflin
America's favorite cross-dressing, gunslinging frontier woman was less (and more) than her legend would have you think.
Wells Fargo, Ford and the “radical homosexual agenda”
Tim Grieve
The religious right targets a bank, an automaker and just about everyone else.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Pitt to adopt Jolie's kids. Plus: Marilyn Manson's tasteful wedding, the Rev. Al's TV show and Madonna's "blood lust."
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Who's got more swagger -- Tyra Banks, the fashion designers on "Project Runway" or the avian flu virus?
A new look at anorexia
Sarah Karnasiewicz
Doctors now believe the eating disorder is a product of nature, not nurture -- and has reach far beyond rich, white teens.
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