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Tale of the tape
Seth Fletcher
Let us now praise the mix tape, a fuzzy-sounding byproduct of hours of misplaced energy and a pure enthusiasm for music.
Same as it ever was
Andrew Leonard
George Lucas can sleep easy tonight. The FBI saved "Star Wars" from the evil rebels of the Internet file-sharing alliance.
Mind games
Salon Staff
Depression, the persistence of memory, and the fallout of a political showdown -- TTers share their thoughts this week.
Fallout from the filibuster deal
Mark Follman
Another look at Justice Priscilla Owen's profile casts a shadow on Dems' ability to invoke "extraordinary circumstances" in future confirmation fights.
“American Idol” virgin
Thomas Bartlett
Bland country moxie beat brash Vegas rocker, in the first -- and last -- "Idol" I'll ever watch.
President evil
Heather Havrilesky
The surprisingly strong fourth season of "24" ends with an anticlimactic "Pfffft!" -- but at least we got the panicked, unethical president we so richly deserve.
The Supreme Court re-enters the abortion debate
Julia Scott
In a surprise move, the Supreme Court agrees to consider a parental notification case with implications for the constitutionality of abortion laws.
Down and out with Iraqi forces
David Axe
On patrol with Iraq's ragtag army, a reporter discovers why American troops will not be coming home anytime soon.
Van Gogh on Prozac
Laura Miller
Treating depression doesn't quell our humanity and creativity but restores them, argues "Listening to Prozac" author Peter Kramer. So, please, let's stop making a virtue out of despair.
The new face of the Democrats
Matt Welch
Let conservatives co-opt "South Park and "The Incredibles." It's time for liberals to get in touch with the free-range, foul-mouthed, gunslinging antiheroes of "Deadwood."
Here come the judges, again
Dan Noyes, Andy Isaacson
Miss them the first time around? Meet the seven antiabortion, anti-gay, pro-industry Bush nominees who could rise from the ashes of the filibuster.
Defusing Frist
Tim Grieve
While Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist took the stage with a preacher who equated liberal judges with the Ku Klux Klan, moderate senators worked around the clock to avert the nuclear option.
Tarantino’s morbid take on “CSI”
Andrew O'Hehir
A '90s culture icon takes over the big hit show of the Bush era. And the results are as grisly as any crime lab.
Fortas who?
Joe Conason
If the GOP applied the same ethical tests to Priscilla Owen that its predecessors used to disqualify a liberal judge in 1968, she'd have to withdraw her nomination.
I’m a lawyer in the closet and I can’t come out!
Cary Tennis
If my old-world parents knew I was gay it would simply ruin their lives.
The future of reproductive sex
David Adam
Scientists are developing artificial wombs, sperm and eggs, but will this lead to babies created in a dish? Don't hold your breath.
When did the force leave you?
Salon Staff
Salon staffers explain why they left that distant "Star Wars" galaxy far, far behind.
My parents are Russian scientists, but I want to work in publishing
Cary Tennis
They're spending a fortune sending me to an Ivy League school, and I'm terrified I won't justify the investment.
China girl
Christine Smallwood
Rachel DeWoskin moved to Beijing to work in a P.R. firm. How did she get a starring role as sex kitten Jiexi in a Chinese soap opera?
Pat Buchanan: The right is losing
Tim Grieve
The former presidential candidate says that a majority of the country doesn't buy the Christianists' take on moral issues.
It’s a shame about Raymond
Heather Havrilesky
"Everybody Loves Raymond" creator Phil Rosenthal talks about Monday's final episode, sitcoms in the age of reality TV, and why you're always more popular when you're dead.
What about Dick?
Tim Grieve
Bob Woodward says the vice president is a "serious dark horse candidate" for the White House.
After the oil is gone
Katharine Mieszkowski
Say goodbye to your suburban house, yoke up that horse, and stand by to repel pirates! Author James Howard Kunstler talks about the dire world of his new book, "The Long Emergency."
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