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Smart mobs beat dumb CEOs

Farhad Manjoo
James Surowiecki's new book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," argues that diverse groups predict the future better than solo prima donnas.

My so-called famous classmate

Salon Staff
An exclusive excerpt from former Salon editor Chris Colin's acclaimed new book on being young in the '90s, "What Really Happened to the Class of '93: Start-ups, Dropouts, and Other Navigations Through an Untidy Decade."

Terrorism, tweezers and terminal madness

Patrick Smith
Some thoughts about the absurdity of too much security. An excerpt from "Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel."

Abu Moses

D.N. Rosina
He was a Palestinian commando, and a clown and a cutup -- until one day he made a shattering discovery.

The Fix

Salon Staff
Clinton will chat with Rather, Stones won't go to China, "Sex and the City" star gets Absolutely mad, and Martha offers to teach women how to clean up.

Tuesday’s must-reads

Geraldine Sealey

Page turners with a brain

Salon's critics
Dump "The Da Vinci Code" and break the "Rule of Four" -- our reading list for a hot season ventures from 1945 Barcelona to an English ghost story to a haunted Texas bureaucracy, all without insulting your intelligence.

A man for all intrigues

Andrew Cockburn
Iyad Allawi, the new choice to lead Iraq, isn't Ahmed Chalabi -- but that's about the only thing to commend this wily member of the old-boy, CIA-sponsored exile club.

Documenting torture

Jeff Horwitz
A farmer and peace activist from the American heartland talks about his frontline battle against human rights abuses in Iraq -- long before the world learned of Abu Ghraib.

What little boys are made of

Meredith Maran
Rebecca Walker, the editor of a new collection of essays about the meaning of "masculinity," talks about her anthology -- and how her identity as a black, white and Jewish bisexual affects her work.

“Saved!”

Stephanie Zacharek
Judgment bad! Acceptance good! This movie about religious hypocrisy not only thumps us over the head with its kumbaya message, but also gives us Macaulay Culkin as a sex symbol. And that's just wrong.

The Fix

Amy Reiter
Bidding war heats up for Clinton book serial rights, Utah man denied damages for Janet Jackson flash and Paul McCartney says war in Iraq is "very difficult."

“The most dishonest president since Nixon”

Salon Staff
Former Vice President Al Gore blasts George W. Bush for dangerously inept leadership and a foreign policy that has "brought deep dishonor" to the country.

Thursday’s must-reads

Geraldine Sealey

The great hair battle

Bryan Miller
My overly thick hair has proved resistant to water, wind and a collection of hair products -- so I finally decided to do something about it.

What’s Waldorf?

Meagan Francis
The alternative school's holistic, arts-based philosophy seemed like a perfect fit for my kids. Then I started learning about the eccentric mystical beliefs of its founder.

Right Hook

Mark Follman
National Review pundits do battle over Bush's Iraq speech; Podhoretz says soldiers like Sivits and England deserve their own torture. Plus: Hitchens tags Michael Moore the ultimate ugly American.

“Raising Helen”

Charles Taylor
If you're a Christian Coalition member looking for a movie that reinforces all the homespun values you hold dear, this Kate Hudson vehicle is for you!

Rush’s forced conscripts

Eric Boehlert
American Forces Radio fires a daily barrage of Rush Limbaugh at its million uniformed listeners. So why are liberals kept off the military's airwaves?

The 10 mistakes

Salon Staff
Gen. Anthony Zinni, former CentCom commander, lists the catastrophic blunders made by the Bush team that led to the Iraq nightmare.

Wednesday’s must-reads

Geraldine Sealey

Thou shalt not steal

Katharine Mieszkowski
Christian teens are just as eager to file-swap copyrighted music as any other youngsters. But if the word of God gets spread, would Jesus give a damn?

Whose country is it, anyway?

Miriam Leiva
A Cuban journalist questions the effectiveness of new U.S. measures aimed at regime change in the island nation -- and says they will merely result in more imprisonment of dissidents.

Letters

Salon Staff
Don't look to China for a traffic role model. Readers respond to Linda Baker's "Why Don't We Do It in the Road."
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