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Resorting to semantics
Tim Grieve
Frist's press secretary tries to explain how the Senate majority leader's vote to filibuster a judge's nomination in 2000 wasn't really a filibuster.
The Fix
Salon Staff
"Desperate Housewives" kid nabbed in pot bust. Sticky testimony in Jackson trial.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Another charge of racism in the NBA. This is starting to look like a problem. Plus: The NBA and NHL playoffs aren't overlapping. Let's make this permanent.
Wrong and right
Sidney Blumenthal
Newsweek clearly erred in its sourcing, but the White House is committing a far greater sin in ignoring the overwhelming evidence of U.S. abuse of Muslim detainees.
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.
Getting closer but still stuck
Tim Grieve
Senators fail to reach an agreement on judicial nominations but agree to meet again.
Loving the masked man
Dan Glaister
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende explains the origins of her new novel, "Zorro," and why her bodice-ripping tale has little to do with "magical realism."
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers sound off on Newsweek's retracted story, Bill Moyers' take on the media, and whether anyone cares if the New York Times charges for its online content.
Dealing with insecurity at Homeland Security
Page Rockwell
The House gives the department's budget a makeover: No more money for sexy TV stars!
Bush’s toxic EPA
Katharine Mieszkowski
Mercury pollution puts more than 600,000 American newborns at risk per year for permanent brain damage. Why is the administration siding with polluters?
“Crazed, pro-war lickspittles”
Julian Borger
British M.P. George Galloway turns his Senate hearing on oil-for-food allegations into an indictment of the invasion of Iraq.
Making PBS as “fair and balanced” as Fox
Eric Boehlert
Critics blast the CPB's unprecedented move to hire competing,
"Crossfire"-style ombudsmen, saying the move is intended to make public broadcasting toe a right-wing line.
“A democracy can die of too many lies”
Bill Moyers
Television journalist Bill Moyers blasts flag-wearing phonies, reporters who parrot the government line, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's "dangerous" campaign to silence dissenting voices.
How real is “24”?
Spencer Ackerman
Could terrorists blow us up with the "nuclear football"? Do jihadi cells party in clubs and recruit infidels? Could Jack Bauer legally kidnap and torture you? What the paranoid hit show gets wrong -- and what it gets right.
Israel’s identity crisis
Aluf Benn
For decades, Israelis have put off facing a simple question: Is Israel a Jewish state, or a state of all its citizens? But with Palestinians soon to become a majority, the issue can no longer be ducked
GOP now goes after NPR
Eric Boehlert
Bad news from the Middle East? Maybe more music programming would be nice.
Hurting Hillary’s hopes
Paul Harris
The trial of the senator's ex-campaign finance chief for lying to the FEC provides new ammunition for her conservative critics.
“Double standards”
Nick Paton Walsh, Paul Harris
Human rights groups criticize the U.S. for refusing to condemn Uzbekistan for its brutal response to recent pro-democracy protests.
Tornado lover
Mark Svenvold
Each May, weather freaks from all over the world descend on the Midwest with hopes of seeing the perfect twister. I'm one of them.
Identity crisis
Farhad Manjoo
Congress just passed an act requiring Americans to carry a national I.D. card. Forget the Big Brother concerns -- security experts say terrorists will figure out how to get them, and warn that your DMV experience will become even more hellish.
Dinner is served
Mark Benjamin
A new Senate bill requires veterans hospitals to stop charging wounded soldiers for meals.
A real monkey trial
Peter Dizikes
At Kansas' mock trial of evolution, the creationist majority flaunted its ignorance of high-school level science. How close is the religious right to bringing God into the classroom?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Pitt talks about Aniston, refuses to discuss Jolie. Russell Crowe and Prince Harry, good buddies?
Mothers who still think
Lori Leibovich
Camille Peri and Kate Moses discuss their new essay collection, the perils of parenting manuals and what's funny about cancer.
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