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My date with Mr. eHarmony
Rebecca Traister
Neil Clark Warren is the Christian evangelical who runs Internet dating titan eHarmony. I'm a pagan feminist who's leery of the religious right. Would sparks fly?
Letters
Salon Staff
Are disco haters racist homophobes? Readers debate Stephanie Zacharek's review of Peter Shapiro's new book "Turn the Beat Around."
Hillary Clinton and the L-word
Tim Grieve
Is there anything worse than being called a "liberal"? The right apparently thinks so.
Conservatives’ widening war on gay rights
Mark Follman
Emboldened by victories in 11 states last fall against same-sex marriage, now they're going after programming in public schools.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
Kinky sex galore! And much of it French! Plus: A hot British film about two nubile young women, and a Woody Allen-esque comedy of manners starring Glenn Close.
Unconventional wisdom
Mattathias Schwartz
Nation magazine publisher Victor Navasky discusses his misadventures in publishing, squabbling with Christopher Hitchens, and what he learned at Harvard Business School.
A fine romance
Rebecca Traister
"I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being," Anne Bancroft said of her husband, Mel Brooks. "It was that simple." We should all be so lucky.
Everything you always wanted to know about the stem cell debate
Farhad Manjoo
George Bush's opposition to stem cell research is intellectually and morally incoherent. Here's why.
Letters
Salon Staff
Plastinated body parts "very moving"? Salon readers weigh in on Jon Mooallem's "I See Dead People."
Disco inferno
Stephanie Zacharek
Forget tacky polyester and the cheesy Village People. It's time to recognize the gender-bending, fabulous music movement of the '70s for the revolution that it was.
Building a better Live 8
Thomas Bartlett
Dump Paul McCartney, Elton John and Sarah McLachlan! Add Prince, Radiohead and -- for heaven's sake -- more black people! Our favorite online observers rate Bob Geldof's big summer sequel.
“Bangkok Tattoo” by John Burdett
Laura Miller
In this follow-up to "Bangkok 8," Buddhist police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is back, exposing more corruption -- and hilarity -- in the Thai capital's red-light district.
I see dead people
Jon Mooallem
Touring shows of corpses have become a worldwide phenomenon -- and cause for scandal. Why are we so eager to look at a man holding his own flayed skin?
Coming up next: Janice Rogers Brown
Tim Grieve
The Senate will begin debating Bush's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Monday. Is it time to say goodbye to the New Deal?
The amazing Steve Ditko
Douglas Wolk
Spider-Man's reclusive co-creator went into hiding decades ago, but his spirit continues to haunt the best of today's comics
Do today’s kids have “nature-deficit disorder”?
Sarah Karnasiewicz
A new book argues that children desperately need to be able to play in the woods -- and that our culture's sterile rejection of nature is harming them in body and soul.
I’m a cowboy in East Asia, lassoed by a local girl
Cary Tennis
Her parents are insisting we marry, but they're just uneducated village folk.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
The 49ers use nudity, profanity, lesbian softcore and off-color humor -- and they're still not worth watching. Plus: Waltonism. And: ESPN plays the music of your life.
AIDS, Africa and the “culture of life”
Tim Grieve
Seeking to soften his hard right image, George W. Bush speaks of the need to help the least among us. Is it all just talk?
You’re only old … twice?
Farhad Manjoo
Rodney Rothman burned out on life in Los Angeles and retired to Florida at 28 -- only to discover that permanent vacation isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Elijah needs a spanking, and quite frankly so do his parents." Legions of readers respond to Neal Pollack's essay about his son's expulsion from preschool.
I am so beautiful I have been maimed by men’s attentions
Cary Tennis
All my life, men have slavered over my looks, never seeing me as a capable woman with a genius IQ.
Getting religion about health
Katharine Mieszkowski
Mike Huckabee, Arkansas' newly skinny governor, weighs in on the humilation of being fat, why government shouldn't police our grease, and whether he's planning to diet his way to the White House.
To bee or not to bee
Gavin McNett
Why did three new books just come out about bees? Is the publishing world taking secret orders from the Discovery Channel? And should writers who refer to "my recommended daily allowance of magic and wonder" be stung to death?
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