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It’s only middle-aged wasteland
Amy Reiter
Jerry Hall: Pete Townshend's not a creep! Joe Millionaire snorkels suds, sez butler. Plus: Did Brad break Jennifer's toe?
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Bush's approval numbers return to pre-9/11 levels. Plus: Al Sharpton, the Republicans' best friend, Part 2.
Wishing upon a star
Michelle Goldberg
The left looks to Hollywood to help rally antiwar sentiment. Soap Operas United to Win Without War, anyone?
“World On Fire” by Amy Chua
Michelle Goldberg
A new book argues that when Third World countries embrace democracy and free markets too quickly, ethnic hatred and even genocide can result.
Unwanted advances
Cary Tennis
A married man among my tribe of friends is coming on to me. How can I get him to stop without ruining everything?
Unwedded bliss
Sheerly Avni
One of the founders of the Alternatives to Marriage Project talks about the deep-seated American fear that shacking up will lead to the fall of Western civilization.
“Fat Land” by Greg Critser
Laura Miller
In America, fat and poor go together. A new book looks at why.
Crystal bawl
Janet Mcdonald
I blew $700 on a famous psychic whose best talent was predicting my gullibility.
Voodoo economics: The sequel
Farhad Manjoo
Bush's vast tax cut will fatten the piggies in their starched white shirts and create huge deficits. But the spineless Democrats don't have the will to stop it.
Bring back the draft?
Anthony York
Rep. Charles Rangel says yes -- the poor, black and brown shouldn't be the only Americans fighting and dying in Iraq.
Mr. Marriage
Cary Tennis
I'm a 22-year-old virgin and girls tell me that someday I'll make a great husband, but I want a date now!
How the media got the facts about Arctic oil wrong
Katharine Mieszkowski
Politics, media spin and plain old confusion have inflated estimates of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge's petroleum reserves, an expert says.
George Bush’s war on nature
Glenn Scherer
Republicans are pushing the most radical assault on the environment in modern times. But history warns of catastrophe for leaders who trust ideology over science.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "Sports Person of the Year: Serena Williams" by King Kaufman.
Onward, Christian soldiers
Louise Witt
With its allies now controlling Congress and the White House, the religious right launches a crusade to cleanse America of sin. The first battlefield: Women's bodies.
He fought the law (and the law won)
John Schacht
It was great to have Joe Strummer back, even if he sold "London Calling" to Jaguar. Now he's gone, reminding us that rock doesn't matter anymore.
The critic in winter
Bruce Bauman
The legendary American literary critic Leslie Fiedler talks about his encounters with Hemingway and Faulkner, his falling out with Bellow and which contemporary novelists will last.
March of the “lucky duckies”
Farhad Manjoo
How did a callous and inaccurate argument for taxing the poor become part of the conservative agenda and the White House playbook?
Life after Lott
Michelle Goldberg
Bill Frist, the likely new Senate majority leader, is hailed as a moderate, but he's an antiabortion hard-liner who votes much like Trent Lott.
Radical humanist, Iraq hawk
Michelle Goldberg
Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi progressive living in exile, welcomes U.S. intervention as the best chance for freedom in his country. And he wonders why U.S. leftists aren't with him.
Confederates in the attic
Anthony York
In the wake of the Lott debacle, President Bush faces questions about the way his campaign used the Confederate flag to win the South Carolina primary.
Sex, sin and the gangs of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya
"The Barbary Coast," by the little-known author of "Gangs of New York," remains one of the strangest and most indispensable books about the city by the bay.
“25th Hour”
Jeff Stark
Of course Spike Lee has the right to transcend movies about race. He also has the talent to do better than this plodding moral fable about a prison-bound Edward Norton.
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