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“To Be and to Have”
Charles Taylor
This heart-wrenching documentary about a French village schoolteacher at work offers the comedy and pathos of great drama and the visual magnificence of painting.
A naked woman is never ironic
David Bowman
Historian Jessica Glasscock chats about the first striptease, pasties, pubic landing strips, and the nude-friendly hippies who raised her.
“Bushwhacked!”
Lou Dubose, Molly Ivins
A new book excerpt traces President Bush's rise from failed oil baron to wealthy Texas governor, courtesy of Daddy's friends.
We are all paparazzi now
Katharine Mieszkowski
In an age of increasing corporate and government surveillance, publicly accessible webcams give us a chance to do some watching of our own.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
On the uplifting nature of sports and the cluelessness of sports media, including a certain columnist: The readers write.
“Just another flavor of meat”
Katharine Mieszkowski
Author David Quammen talks about what the human race will lose if we don't allow the big alpha predators -- tigers, bears and crocodiles -- to survive. And OK, maybe they need to eat one of us once in a while.
Family values, down the toilet
Robert Scheer
Republican women rationalize that Arnold Schwarzenegger "supports family." Mark that endorsement the death knell of GOP claims to represent traditional family values.
Bad Moon on the rise
John Gorenfeld
Overcoming his church's bizarre reputation and his own criminal record, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon has cemented ties with the Bush administration, while his disciples have even gained government funding.
Howard Dean’s Israel problem
Michelle Goldberg
When he said the U.S. must be "evenhanded" in the Middle East, rivals and critics accused him of selling out the Jewish state -- even though his position is similar to Bush's and his campaign co-chair used to run AIPAC.
Iraq is not Vietnam
Edward W. Lempinen
The antiwar left shows a troubling indifference to the plight of Iraqis -- and flirts with irrelevance -- by demanding that President Bush bring the troops home now.
Trent Lott, populist hero
Eric Boehlert
Once a GOP ultra-partisan, the deposed Senate leader is now leading the charge against the FCC and media giantism. Is it his revenge against the Bush White House?
Dharma in the park
Christopher Farah
Sixty-five thousand people -- students, professionals, hippies and the just plain curious -- flocked to New York to hear the Dalai Lama. But did they find anything meaningful beyond a sunny day, a picnic lunch, and a guest appearance by Richard Gere?
Searching for Saddam’s sarin
Ferry Biedermann
A purloined videotape leads to a wild tale of smuggling, greed, intrigue, thuggery, sex and Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction.
Letters
Salon Staff
Entrapment is never justified, no matter what the thought crime: Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "Mob Justice."
Why can’t we be “Friends”?
Heather Havrilesky
Among the new fall TV sitcoms are predictably miserable rip-offs ("Coupling"), dubious star vehicles (Kelly Ripa, anyone?) and cartoon families -- and a few that seem to get the tricky comedy formula just right.
Life sentences
Sheerly Avni
Novelist Mark Salzman, who spent four years teaching locked-up young hoods in L.A., talks about his students, their writing and how they inspired him to have a child of his own.
Welcome to the machine?
Farhad Manjoo
Consumers love ATMs, self-checkout machines and airport boarding-pass kiosks. But what about the workers who get automated out of existence?
Wesley Clark: The new Howard Dean?
Eric Boehlert
The former Vermont governor is the front-runner, but some Democratic insiders wonder if the retired general has a better chance of beating Bush.
Sunset for the golden boy?
Alexander Bolton
As John Edwards kicks off his presidential campaign, some wonder if it's over before it began.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
While Wesley Clark may discombobulate the Democrats, his ambitions will scarcely be pleasing to the president and Karl Rove -- especially in light of their own recent lousy polling.
California GOP — slow-mo implosion
Max Blumenthal
Purists say Schwarzenegger is too liberal. Moderates say a conservative can't win. It's meltdown time for the Republican Party.
Mob justice
Katharine Mieszkowski
Watch what you say to that 13-year-old in a chat room. It could be a vigilante looking to do some tar-and-feathering.
The Fix
Amy Reiter
Arnold to Oprah: I said a lot of strange things back in the 1970s. Plus: The lowdown on the Jen-Ben breakup.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "G.I. George, Action President!" by David Hyde, and "The Not-So-Great Debate" by Joan Walsh.
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