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Bush’s brain found lacking
Walter Shapiro
A slew of new books on Karl Rove make us question whether the president's deputy chief of staff is truly the Machiavellian genius so many in Washington claim.
The breast of times
Judith Woodburn
I've nursed my son through four birthdays now. I know what the critics say, but it's what he wants.
Lone Star lady
Liz Smith
Ann Richards and I saw everything on Broadway and loved to rag about George W. Bush. They were some of the happiest years of my life.
Why Johnny can’t code
David Brin
BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.
“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”
Laura Miller
The surrealist stunners in Haruki Murakami's new story collection take you to the creepy, sublime places that no author does better.
Emerald City exposed
Sidney Blumenthal
Journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran pulls back the curtain on the Green Zone in Baghdad to reveal the flops and failures of the Bush war team.
Hack the vote? No problem
Brad Friedman
Diebold, the e-voting-machine maker, has long sworn its systems are secure. Not so, says a new Princeton study. Converting votes from one candidate to another is simple.
Rhode Island reverberations
Walter Shapiro
Now, with Chafee's crucial primary win, get ready for the "WASP preppy political Olympics."
The never-ending war
Walter Shapiro
The president uses the fifth anniversary of our national tragedy to promise a global conflict that will last decades.
Our family’s recovery
Lori Leibovich
When the grandmother the girls called "the human Barbie doll" died in the World Trade Center, they were buried in grief. But Brianna and Shannon, and their parents, Jay and Louise, refuse to let the past rule them.
Destination: Norway
William T. Vollmann
The Eddas -- epic sagas that form the core of Norse religion -- are best read under the ash trees in this Land of the Midnight Sun.
Wrong on 9/11? It’s not just ABC
Tim Grieve
The New York Times says the 9/11 Commission concluded that the Monica Lewinsky scandal distracted Clinton from terrorism.
I’m young, rich and beautiful but so very unhappy
Cary Tennis
What's wrong with me? I've got everything a girl could want, and yet I'm just so miserable!
“This Is Your Brain on Music”
Farhad Manjoo
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin's wonderful new book explains why music is a critical step in human evolution and why the songs we loved as teens remain stuck on "play" in our heads.
9/11 hits TV
Heather Havrilesky
Salon sorts through the lurid, the biased and the manipulative to find the shows worth watching about the disaster no one can forget.
Hard lessons
Salon Staff
You learn from your great ones, but sometimes you learn something from the horrible ones too. Table Talkers recall teachers from hell.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
What a waste to relegate our beautiful 747s to the scrapyard. Why not make art out of them. Or, better yet, make them into houses.
Remembrance of Bush’s fiascoes
Sidney Blumenthal
As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence.
Drugged or drunk?
Adriana Gardella
A young woman went out partying and ended up getting 40 years for DUI manslaughter. Was she just drunk -- or did someone slip her a mickey?
How can I be a friend to a man in an abusive relationship?
Cary Tennis
Should I try to intervene or just keep my mouth shut?
The joys of life without God
Kevin Berger
Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer explains why Darwin matters, how believing in God is the same as believing in astrology, and why it doesn't take divine faith to experience something bigger than ourselves.
“Brief Encounters With Che Guevara”
Tony D'Souza
This superb debut story collection travels to Colombia, Sierra Leone and the U.S., examining the damage capitalism has wreaked on the world.
Head in the stars
Jancee Dunn
Recently it occurred to me that I know more about the celebrities I interview than I do about my own family. But admit it -- don't you, too?
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