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Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Our allies change their tune on WMD -- while our leaders prepare a fall guy.
A nation of scared sheep
Louise Witt
Why don't Americans care that Bush may have lied to them about Iraq? The answer lies deep in our reptilian brains.
Letters
Salon Staff
U.S. apathy and the bloody chaos in the Congo: Readers respond to "Millions Die, Bush Is Silent," by Laura McClure.
Summer’s big catfight
Heather Havrilesky
While the rest of the networks' reality fare wilts in the heat, a mix of Bible thumping, boa constrictors and the evil genius of Tyra "Tyrant" Banks makes "America's Next Top Model" a refreshing surprise.
A fragile peace
Aluf Benn
As Israelis and Palestinians shake hands in front of the cameras, it's as if the years of bloodshed were just a bad dream. But both sides have a long way to go before the nightmare is over.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Does Bob Dylan read obscure Japanese literature? Does Stephen Hawking go to strip clubs with Colin Farrell? Does Tucker Carlson mean what he said about eating his shoes? Plus: Johnny Depp takes us for a ride!
“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue”
Gary Kamiya
In "Areopagitica," Milton made a magisterial case not just for freedom of speech, but for freedom of soul.
The African press on Bush’s visit
Compiled by Laura McClure
From Kenya: "Bush's singular achievement has been to make America resented in Africa."
Letters
Salon Staff
"Welcome to class warfare": A roundtable discussion of global labor issues in which readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "White-collar Sweatshop."
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
The reaction to Dusty Baker's racially ignorant comments has been just about right.
A.S. Byatt and the goblet of bile
Charles Taylor
The author's recent New York Times Op-Ed shows that she doesn't understand why so many of us love Harry Potter. Maybe it's just too much fun.
Ex anxieties
Cary Tennis
I'm going to see my ex at a wedding for the first time in two years. How should I behave?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Baseball has "fixed" the All-Star "problem" by making the game "meaningful." But how much can an All-Star Game mean if it includes Armando Benitez?
Millions die, Bush is silent
Laura McClure
The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it.
Confusion and outrage on the right
Michelle Goldberg
Recent gay-rights victories have left family-values conservatives stunned and fuming -- and demanding that a nervous Bush take their side.
Because I’m the mother
Anne Lamott
My son hates church, but I make him go anyway. It's good to do uncomfortable things -- it's weight training for life.
Italy’s sex slaves
Laura Fraser
Young women from Africa and Eastern Europe are lured to Italy with the promise of good jobs
and a new life. But when they get there they are beaten, raped and forced into prostitution.
The rise of the fabloids
Tina Brown
Celebrity coverage that's cheap, star-friendly and makes Ashton Kutcher look like he has a Y chromosome.
The world press: Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
Compiled by Laura McClure
Maclean's: When the Taliban fell, women were supposed to get a better deal. It hasn't happened.
Film’s not dead, damn it!
Stephanie Zacharek
Interviews with some of today's leading cinematographers -- the real magic-makers of the movies -- suggest that George Lucas' overhyped "digital revolution" is mostly marketing buzz.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
How George W. Bush lost a cushy job given him by political friends a decade ago. Plus: Pondering the meaning of "Bring 'em on."
White-collar sweatshops
Katharine Mieszkowski
"Globalization" is becoming a dirty word to U.S. tech workers, increasingly angry and anxious as their jobs disappear overseas, never to return.
The free research movement
Farhad Manjoo
The Public Library of Science aims to break the stranglehold that expensive academic journals have over federally funded research -- and start a scientific revolution.
What we’re listening to
Salon's Staff
Richard Thompson, the Black Keys, Roxy Music Live, the Pernice Brothers and more.
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