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Robert Downey Jr.
Charles Taylor
His future's uncertain, but even if Hollywood's beloved screw-up never acts again, he'll stand as the most talented actor of his generation.
Brian Wilson, card-carrying genius
Ira Robbins
After a life custom-made for cable catharsis, the force behind the Beach Boys is now being honored even for things he didn't do. Does that card ever expire?
Protest chic goes global
Richard Blow
Latter-day hippies and martial arts masters form an odd coalition in Taiwan to promote "global peace." But something is lost in the translation.
The Edison debate continues
Letters to the Editor
A San Francisco schools activist critiques Salon's Edison Charter Academy coverage, and Joan Walsh replies.
The patriot
Gary Kamiya
He was prepared to shed blood to defend liberty. What separates American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from thousands of other gun-worshiping zealots?
Bathroom secrets of the outback
Salon Staff
Episode 11: Everything you didn't want to know about survivor digestion! Plus: Jeff Probst makes a deal.
Bush’s Euro-skeptics
Steve Kettmann
In France they call him "an idiot." In Germany they call him a "big bully." Forget China -- Europe could turn out to be President Bush's biggest foreign policy problem yet.
How to widen the black-white wealth gap
Dalton Conley
Ignore the claims of rich, black estate-tax foes. The tax is good for African-Americans.
Days of the N
Joey Sweeney
Today's young metalheads wallow in self-pity and sound like Limp Bizkit. These kids don't need rock -- they need Paxil.
Is Willie Brown playing the race card?
Anthony York
Plus: Conservative Web sites take the gloves off: "That's why we had to bomb Hiroshima"; George W. Bush, the poison president.
President Dumbass
Joyce Millman
In the bratty "That's My Bush!" the "South Park" boys claim they're sending up sitcoms, not George W. Right. And Cartman's a genius.
The phantom cyber-threat
Caroline Benner
We should stop worrying about computer terrorism and learn who our real enemies are.
New team names spell victory!
Susan McCarthy
Today the sports moniker game's not about identification, it's about intimidation. Just ask the Raging Drag Queens, the Syphilitic White Missionaries or the Declining Test Scores.
Nicole Kidman: Knee wide open
Amy Reiter
Hugh Grant: "Maybe I'm a perv"; Jennifer Aniston is out of bondage,
into horse pills. Plus: David Bowie will bite you now and Jodie Foster is
preggers!
“Facing the Wind” by Julie Salamon
Andrew O'Hehir
The author of "The Devil's Candy" tells the true story of the ideal family man who suddenly plunged into homicidal madness.
Social Security and the big bad bear
Katharine Mieszkowski
Will an imploding stock market kill off plans to privatize our national safety net?
Baby loves me, baby loves me not
Theresa Pinto Sherer
Is there a biological guarantee that your child will love you? Not yet.
Wheelchairs, pig guts, computers and machetes
Carlos Amantea
Let me tell you what happened in the Mississippi of Mexico while I was out with the Pusher Divine, and visited by Peter Lorre and his giant knife.
Which way L.A.?
Anthony York
In a crowded field of contenders, a white guy and a Latino vie to be the 21st century's Tom Bradley, in the city's first post-ethnic mayor's race.
Don’t march for Napster
Andrew Leonard
Corporate co-optation of civil rights rhetoric is an abomination. It should be shunned.
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