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Under the clerics’ thumbs
Mitchell Prothero
Women's rights groups in the Middle East fear that Iraqi women will be the biggest losers in the country's new constitution.
Big Pharma’s free ride
Adam Graham-Silverman
Pharmaceutical companies are using free-trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition -- and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs.
Need vs. greed
Salon Staff
What we want, what others want us to want, and why we want it -- this week in TT.
Dershowitz vs. Finkelstein
Gary Younge
When pro-Israel attorney Alan Dershowitz learned that scholar and Israel critic Norman Finkelstein was writing a book that savaged him and his views, he tried to prevent its publication. Then things got really ugly.
Why big business hearts John Roberts
Michael Scherer
It's looking like George W. Bush named a Supreme Court nominee that corporate honchos can love.
The informer
Sidney Blumenthal
For nearly 50 years, Robert Novak badgered and bullied his way to the top of Washington. His disgrace in the Valerie Plame affair has brought him crashing down -- and he has only himself to blame.
Is Cindy Sheehan “fair game,” too?
T.g.
Is there anything the right won't do to prop up the president and the war that he started?
Daily Download: “Sock It to ‘Em Soul Brother,” Bill Moss
Salon Staff
An exclusive download from a soul pioneer who died last week.
Abandoning John G. Roberts
T.g.
A Virginia-based "family values" group says Bush should withdraw Roberts' Supreme Court nomination on account of his work with gay rights activists.
Sapphic soldiers
Christine Smallwood
Tereska Torres -- author of 1950s lesbian pulp novel "Women's Barracks" -- talks about the ladies of the Free French Forces, shocking American audiences, and being mistaken for a "lesbian writer."
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on an Army sergeant's letter about Iraq. Plus: Did New Mexico really "swing hard" for Bush in 2004?
Reading “Lost Illusions”
Benjamin Kunkel
As an aspiring writer, I was always too scared to read Balzac's cautionary tale of a young poet in 1820s Paris. With my first novel coming out, I was finally ready to take it on.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
The new Worst Show on Television, "The Real World" crosses the line, and we all savor the final days of "Six Feet Under."
What Michael Moore (and the neocons) don’t know about Saudi Arabia
Juan Cole
The left and the right have both crudely demonized the desert kingdom. But the ascension of King Abdullah gives the U.S. a chance to solidify relations with this flawed but key ally.
Yurts, robot secretaries, and talking dinosaurs
Douglas Wolk
In Carla Speed McNeil's "Finder" comics, cultures past, present and future clash and combine to create a fantastic vision of a different world.
Retail therapy
Salon Staff
The case for Wal-Mart, and what happens when you don't get what you bargained for, this week in TT.
Congress don’t need no stinkin’ ethics!
Michael Scherer
Lobbyists blithely pour funny money into congressional pockets, serene in the knowledge that ethics committees are a joke.
For Judy Miller, a prison jumpsuit but no award
T.g.
Writers group changes course on whether the New York Times reporter deserves a "Conscience in Media" honor.
Letters
Salon Staff
Is Wal-Mart the symptom or the disease? Plus: Debating the connection between the London bombings and Iraq.
“The spirit of Osama”
Volkhard Windfuhr
A former army officer, once a close associate of bin Laden's, talks about the resort bombing in Egypt, the mutation of al-Qaida, and the world's "most powerful" terrorist network -- now operating in Iraq.
The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Tim Grieve
The U.S. military said an Iraqi general in its custody died of natural causes. That wasn't exactly true.
My dad met a woman, and now he has abandoned me
Cary Tennis
How do I deal with the loss of a father who's not really gone but just changed?
Wal-Mart’s P.R. war
Liza Featherstone
Activists against the behemoth think this is their year: Two new national campaigns, a critical upcoming documentary and more stores thwarted. But can they force America's largest private employer to change its ways?
Caught up in the Current
Heather Havrilesky
Al Gore's TV network serves up compelling topics at a brisk pace -- there's just not enough to go around.
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