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Looking for higher ground
Garrison Keillor
There used to be a sense of shame attached to government incompetence that cost lives -- but Katrina struck a different America.
Running on empty
Ira Boudway
Barbara Ehrenreich set out to write a "Nickel and Dimed" for the white-collar worker -- but everything fell apart when she couldn't nab a corporate job.
New Orleans rising
Rob Patterson
Katrina has silenced the city's famous musical pulse, washing away clubs and scattering musicians. But Crescent City singers and songwriters, producers and administrators insist the sounds of the bayou will not be muted for long.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers react to Ayelet Waldman's column criticizing the indoctrination of Gaza's youngest settlers.
The rules of attraction
Ann Marlowe
The women in Candace Bushnell's new novel are rich, smart, hardworking lovelies. So why do they need men to dominate them?
The culture war over Katrina
Alan Wolfe
Right-wingers point to blacks looting and see a Hobbesian war of all against all. Liberals see a failure of civilization to help the poorest among us.
Around the Web
Salon Staff
Around the Web: Katrina's devastation extends to the New Orleans music scene.
Flushing out the ugly truth
Joan Walsh
The horror in New Orleans has exposed the nation's dirty secrets of race and poverty. Americans are ready to help. Will our leaders show the way?
The Fix
Scott Lamb
Katrina benefits abound. Martha's free! "London" calling Britney? Plus: Diddy no draw?
Chic suds
Page Rockwell
When I met my sophisticated, globe-trotting roommate, I was desperate to impress. Who knew I'd win her over with a bottle of liquid soap?
Archaeology from the dark side
Andrew O'Hehir
Creationists and New Agers have formed a common front to undermine mainstream archaeology and its scientific view of the human past. Are they winning?
The whole truth
Andrew O'Hehir
Red and blue staters fight over religion, moral values and the culture. But philosopher Simon Blackburn sees something deeper -- a war over the very nature of truth.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
"Rome" burns but doesn't ignite. Plus: The comedic stylings of J.D. from "Rock Star: INXS"!
Intelligent donation?
Farhad Manjoo
Why the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave more than $10 million to the Discovery Institute, champions of "intelligent design."
I left my heart in San Francisco
Cary Tennis
I feel it's time to return to the city I love, but family and practical matters hold me back.
The Iraqi constitution: DOA?
Juan Cole
Angry and marginalized, Sunnis are threatening to torpedo Iraq's constitution. Disaster looms, and the Bush administration's blunders are largely to blame.
The death of Al Mutanabbi Street
Phillip Robertson
Iraqi culture was reborn when Saddam fell, only to die again. A report from Baghdad's fear-haunted literary cafes.
Lost in America
Leigh Flayton
It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
“Magic for Beginners” by Kelly Link
Laura Miller
Another entrancing collection of surreal suburban tales from the author of the underground hit "Stranger Things Happen."
“Lunar Park” by Bret Easton Ellis
Laura Miller
In this quasi-memoir-turned-ghost story from the notorious '80s Brat Packer, a character named Bret Easton Ellis tries to outlive his life of excess.
Queer as folk
Mike Sacks
Paul Lynde never officially came out -- but the "Hollywood Squares" star was the first TV personality to bring gay humor to the masses.
Buried alive
Heather Havrilesky
After five seasons of alienation, lost loves and fragile connections, "Six Feet Under" goes out kicking.
Reading “Madame Bovary”
David L. Ulin
Flaubert's dark tale of adultery feels like it was written in another age -- yet its vision of moral hypocrisy is startlingly contemporary.
An Alan Ball postmortem
Heather Havrilesky
The "Six Feet Under" creator on the show's death, and on asking tough questions in an era of simple answers.
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