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A last-ditch effort to avert bankruptcy
Julia Scott
Can an 11th-hour effort by grassroots groups prevent the hard-line bankruptcy bill from making it through Congress?
Iraqi interim president, council sworn in
Antonio Castaneda
Symbolic and perilous bus trip
Randeep Ramesh
Defying militant attacks, passengers in divided Kashmir cross a "peace bridge" at the India-Pakistan border, opened for the first time in 58 years.
Turning neocons green
Amanda Griscom Little
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says that Bush's plan to remake the Middle East will fail unless the U.S. starts guzzling less gas -- and that if asked, Americans will pay $4 a gallon.
“Major Dundee: The Extended Version”
Stephanie Zacharek
Sam Peckinpah's 1965 western starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris gets the full lost-masterpiece treatment.
Living large
Lynn Harris
Clothing company Torrid makes cool clothes for overweight teens. Its bodacious bras and extra-large camisoles help salvage fat kids' self-esteem. But do they also encourage obesity?
Letters
Salon Staff
Do we expect too much from the church, or too little? Readers debate the legacy of John Paul II.
Bellow and Me
Dana Cook
Arthur Miller, Gloria Steinem, Frederick Exley, Susan Cheever, Martin Amis, Norman Mailer and others recall their encounters with the Nobel laureate.
Unsolved mystery
Luke Harding
A U.S. treasure hunter gets the go-ahead from Austria to search for the Third Reich's fabled gold buried in a lake.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Big Pussy arrested. Jackson slept with chimp. Britney denies marital strife, blames dog.
A right-wing run on the border
Page Rockwell
Arizona's "Minuteman" group of border vigilantes is small potatoes, but has cooked up some big hype.
It’s lock ‘n’ load at U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Julia Scott
Is it really the best idea for the Bush administration to appoint a former trophy-hunting advocate as acting
director of the department?
Lady Jane
Rebecca Traister
Actress, activist, sex kitten, entrepreneur, Christian, mogul's wife, lightning rod, for almost 70 years Jane Fonda has lived out the history of American women.
“Without Jerusalem, there will be no peace”
Chris McGreal
Arabs decry Israel's plan to build a ring of Jewish neighborhoods around the Old City, saying Sharon wants to keep it from becoming the Palestinian capital.
Letters
Salon Staff
Passionate hoo-ha about intellectual property: Readers respond to Andrew Leonard's "Music Rules."
Who pays for the news
Julia Scott
Fallout from the exposure of propaganda videos used by the Bush administration has tarred journalists on both ends of the political spectrum.
Pope John Paul II’s mixed legacy
Julia Scott
Catholic scholar Mary Segers discusses Pope John Paul II's important role in Eastern Europe, failure to acknowledge women's independence, and belief that real Christianity thrived only in poor countries.
Hawks for hybrids
Page Rockwell
Environmentalists get a big boost from an unlikely source: national security hawks, who say a thirst for foreign oil puts America at risk.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Singing the temp worker, furloughed pilot, punk-rock blues. Snapshots from a life aimed aloft.
How Merck stacked the Vioxx deck
Robert Burton
The pharmaceutical giant knew there were heart risks associated with its painkiller -- but its own studies were designed to avoid finding out how serious they were.
Beyond “Please fondle my buttocks”
Lauren Aaronson
As more Arabic speakers take up blogging, better translation programs could promote cross-cultural understanding -- and avoid Monty Python-like misunderstandings.
Dialing it down
Heather Havrilesky
HBO's documentary "Left of the Dial" chronicles the blunders, bounced checks, insults and lies behind Air America Radio's troubled launch a year ago today.
Letters
Salon Staff
"As a gay man, I found the column condescending, out of touch, and insulting." Salon readers react to Ayelet Waldman's latest essay.
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