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“My Jihad”
Laura Miller
American mujahedin Aukai Collins was a passionate convert to Islam. But his new memoir makes it clear that nothing got him more excited than the sound of a rocket-propelled grenade and the look in an enemy's eyes as he slit his throat.
A conversation with Aukai Collins
Edward W. Lempinen
The author of "My Jihad" talks about John Walker Lindh, his days with Daniel Pearl's killer and a 9/11 hijacker, and why the FBI had its head in the sand.
Death of the last tycoon
Kathleen Sharp
At a star-studded memorial, Hollywood bids farewell to legendary Universal head Lew Wasserman, a Mob-reared patriarch who makes today's show-biz honchos look like midgets.
Thanks, but no thanks
Michael Alvear
Why I wouldn't take part in the AIDS vaccine studies announced at the Barcelona conference.
The watchdog didn’t bark
Harold Evans
Why didn't the media question Bush's shady stock dealings before he became president?
White out?
Jason Leopold
As Army secretary Tom White prepares to testify before Congress, Democrats predict the former Enron executive will be the first Bush administration casualty in the growing uproar over corporate sleaze.
Deregulation’s big lie
Katharine Mieszkowski
FCC chairman Michael Powell says the WorldCom debacle may result in more telecom mergers. So who ends up losing? We all do, explains one industry expert.
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
Lewis Carroll by way of Will Self and Zadie Smith and more of our favorite new books.
Death in the desert
James Reel
Mexican migrants are dying at record rates as they try to cross treacherous desert into Arizona. Critics blame the U.S. government -- and they're preparing to sue.
Bush rides the Whitewater
Eric Boehlert
Through the length of Bill Clinton's presidency, the press scrounged for details on the arcane Whitewater controversy. Will it do the same for Harken Energy?
Up, locked, and loaded
Patrick Smith
Should guns be allowed in the cockpit? Possibly, says Salon's aviation expert, but not at the expense of other solutions to air terror.
The calm before the storm
Aluf Benn
With terror attacks thwarted and President Bush on his side, Ariel Sharon is riding high -- but what will happen when Israel pulls its troops out of the West Bank cities?
He-men and hip-hop
Salon Staff
Readers respond to an essay about the disappearance of the classic American man and an interview about the hip-hop generation.
Bush stonewalls release of family-planning study
Michelle Goldberg
A State Department team investigated oft-refuted charges raised by a far-right group that a U.N. family-planning agency abetted forced abortions in China. But Bush won't release the study -- or $34 million in aid.
Can we trust Microsoft’s Palladium?
Farhad Manjoo
Critics say Redmond's new security initiative will imprison users. But why would Bill Gates want to do that?
What big teeth you have!
Arianna Huffington
The Business Roundtable and other corporate lobbyists are dressing themselves up these days as lovable reformers. But watch out for their fangs.
Celebrity pill pushers
Lawrence Goodman
Under the guise of "public service," pharmaceutical companies are quietly paying stars to solicit new customers on TV talk shows with tales of personal suffering and blessed relief.
Another brick in the wall
Ferry Biedermann
Everybody wants to be on the "right" side of the wall that Israel is putting up between itself and the Palestinians. But what the "right side" is depends on whom you ask.
Bears, bulls — and bull
Jake Tapper
The president goes to Wall Street to lecture on bidness ethics, as questions persist about his own corporate past.
Hip-hop nation
Suzy Hansen
A spokesman for the new generation of African-Americans says hip-hop can ignite a fresh wave of black activism -- but first the civil rights veterans have to get out of the way.
Black-and-blue in ones and zeros
Karin Halperin
Digital photography is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence cases.
Living in oblivion
Cintra Wilson
Idiosyncratic indie director Tom DiCillo on how he made the best film of his career, and why Hollywood won't let you see it.
Baseball ruins everything it touches
Keith Olbermann
Only this messed-up ex-national pastime could manage to take its premier fan event, the first genuinely exciting All-Star Game in years, and abandon it without an outcome.
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