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Rubbing off a little stardust
Salon Staff
What's your celebrity encounter story? Members of Salon's Table Talk community share theirs.
The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition
Glenn Greenwald
Conservatives suddenly embrace Terrorist Rights now that they are no longer in power.
VA takes tape from reporter investigating treatment of vets
Alex Koppelman
Agency staffers reportedly stopped and threatened a journalist until he gave up his recording of an interview with a veteran who'd complained of mistreatment.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The Buffalo crash revisited. Plus: Landing in the water, idolizing Sully and selling books.
Tale of the secret Army tape
Mark Benjamin, Michael de Yoanna
After a soldier taped a psychologist saying he'd been pressured not to diagnose PTSD, the Army launched an investigation. Read the details of how the Army declared itself innocent.
Bow-ow-ow: Obama’s painful missteps
Camille Paglia
Let the new president grow into the job -- but he'd better do it fast! Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality and Mary McCarthy, to that big movie about a sinking ship.
“I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD”
Mark Benjamin, Michael de Yoanna
A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army and Senate have ignored the implications.
Goldman Sachs CEO: If only we’d listened to Enron
Andrew Leonard
Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling showed Wall Street how it was broken. Their response? La, la, la -- we can't hear you!
The end of “ER”
Joan Walsh
Call the time of death: After 15 years, "ER" brings back its old stars and turns off the paddles for the last time.
My botched interview with Obama critic Simon Johnson
Andrew Leonard
Wouldn't you love to read about a trenchant conversation with a smart economist about the most important financial crisis in modern history? Well, too bad.
Simon Johnson’s crusade against the oligarchs of Wall Street
Andrew Leonard
The left cheers as a former IMF chief economist preaches "structural adjustments" for the U.S. But didn't "the Washington Consensus" help get the world into its current mess?
Paul Krugman’s “15 minutes”
Andrew Leonard
Surely the gadfly economist's track record has earned him more than an Andy Warhol-allotment of fame.
The secret war against American workers
Robert Eshelman
The deepening recession is giving some businesses the excuse to fire people they'd have had to keep on in better conditions.
Oakland mourns
Gary Kamiya
A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
The monster inside my son
Ann Bauer
For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew.
Jindal on whether he wants Obama to fail: It depends
Alex Koppelman
The Louisiana governor, headlining a GOP fundraiser, gets in a few shots at the president.
Will the real “slumdog millionaire” please stand up?
Fiona Ehlers
He was the only man to win the grand prize on India's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" And though he wasn't a slumdog, he has now devoted his life to helping impoverished children.
The invisible man of “Saturday Night Live”
Stephanie Zacharek
Al Franken's former writing partner, Tom Davis, has written a connect-the-tokes history of the drugs, silliness and genius of "SNL's" early years.
Death hops a Mexican freight train
Andrew O'Hehir
Director Cary Fukunaga talks about his debut film, "Sin Nombre," a crackling blend of crime thriller and docu-realism that dazzled Sundance audiences.
Can Washington get our money back from AIG?
Alex Koppelman
Politicians from both parties are pushing plans to rescind the $165 million in bonuses the company paid out recently.
Just how bad off is the Republican Party (Part 2)?
Salon Staff
A state-by-state look at the state of the Grand Old Party in the Age of Steele.
The outrageous offenses against Richard Cheney
Glenn Greenwald
TV journalists protest the insufficiently reverent commentary directed at "the former vice president of the United States."
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