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Judging the filibuster deal
Farhad Manjoo
Activists from both the left and right say averting the nuclear option won't end their fight for the judges they want.
McCain vs. Frist
David Paul Kuhn
The Arizona moderate knocked out the Tennessee right-winger in the filibuster showdown. Does his victory foreshadow the 2008 primary?
Is Social Security the next “compromise”?
Page Rockwell
Will the filibuster deal pay dividends for President Bush's flagging Social Security plan?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Paris Hilton commercial incites outcry, crashes Web site. Motley Crue cries foul. Whoopi lashes out at party.
My right-wing degree
Jeff Horwitz
How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas.
“The best market in the world”
Jonathan Watts
A small town in China is now the undisputed global capital of zippers and buttons, a microcosm of what's happening throughout the country.
Letters
Salon Staff
Prozac: Artist's helper, or mortal enemy? Readers debate Laura Miller's review of Peter Kramer's new book, "Against Depression."
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers say Dems should fight for the filibuster, and debate the Bush administration's justifications for war in Iraq.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on Cary Tennis' responses to the Buddhist with a God problem, the closeted lawyer, and the pathological liar.
Done deal — for now
Tim Grieve
The "Group of 14" moderates defuse the nuclear option, but who really wins and loses in the filibuster compromise? And how close are we to the next showdown?
Mixing science with creationism
Paul Harris
A new museum presents evolution from a biblical perspective, showing Adam and Eve living in harmony with dinosaurs.
Let’s make a deal
Page Rockwell
A bipartisan group of moderate senators forges a deal to head off the nuclear option.
Inside Saddam’s prison
Antony Barnett et al.
The pictures of the ex-dictator in his underwear refocus world attention on America's treatment of other "high-value" detainees.
Friend fatale
Rebecca Traister
Whether it happens in a blowout battle or years of sniping comments, the ends of our girl friendships make us feel more alone, guilty and bereft than the ends of our greatest romances.
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.
The crowd they can’t control?
Page Rockwell
Calvin College may not have such a warm welcome for President Bush at its commencement festivities.
Riders on the storm
Mark Svenvold
Benjamin Franklin galloped after a tornado in 1755, and tried to tame it with a whip! 250 years later, his descendants continue the chase.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The pilot takes issue with his publisher: Older planes are not "dangerously old."
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Who was it who said Reggie Miller had nothing left? Bzzzt! Wrong. Plus: One important word about steroids.
Frist, the lonely leader
Tim Grieve
Sen. Arlen Specter thinks most senators want to back away from the filibuster showdown, but Bill Frist won't let them speak their minds.
An unsung genius of song
Salon Staff
A brilliant, reclusive New York songwriter, with a tiny but ferociously devoted audience.
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