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Afghanistan: Mission not yet accomplished
Mitchell Prothero
Despite successful elections, warlords, drug cartels and growing disenchantment with the West could still derail the fledgling democracy.
Not just filmed but “Illuminated”
Priya Jain
Liev Schreiber talks about what it was like adapting the bestselling "Everything Is Illuminated" -- and not being able to recognize your own brother.
Boogie Woogie Elmo and the junkyard future
Cory Doctorow
What happens when you match 3D printers with free computing power? Chapter 2 of "Themepunks."
Concert Review: Arcade Fire
Salon Staff
I was a victim of racial violence in junior high
Cary Tennis
I know that I am not a racist, but years later I still react automatically.
Roberts’ rules of order
Michael Scherer
The first day of John Roberts' confirmation hearings played as expected, with senators posturing, Judge Roberts saying nothing, and a pro-life activist dressed as Betsy Ross setting off a metal detector.
The greatest
Gary Kamiya
Jerry Rice played 238 games for the 49ers, and I saw 236 of them. A tribute to the greatest receiver -- and maybe the greatest player -- in the history of football.
Should I move my happy family from America to Asia?
Cary Tennis
Everything is peachy here, but I'm an entrepreneur and my wife is Asian, and it's the chance of a lifetime.
Suffer the children
Ayelet Waldman
I was disgusted last week as I watched some of the Gaza settlers using their children as pawns. Then I realized that I fill my kids' heads with dogma too.
Reading “In Search of Lost Time”
Jane Smiley
You will spend 70 days in a row with this man, and you will be charmed and offended and amazed and sometimes bored, but you will be lucky.
I invaded the White House press corps
Cintra Wilson
I had front row seats at the media's Great Slave Rebellion over Karl Rove. No wonder our democracy's in trouble.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
A lunatic and a housewife get it on in 1950s London. Plus: A wall grows around Israel, and William Eggleston refuses to talk.
Lost in America
Leigh Flayton
It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
The body beat goes on
Salon Staff
Short, tall, skinny, fat, young, old, buxom and flat: A second round of Salon readers share their own body-inspired odes.
The bereaved rate Bush
Mark Benjamin
Recalling their meetings with the president, Cindy Sheehan says "he has no compassion" and Roxanne Kaylor calls him "a liar," but Sherry Orlando says he was "very sincere."
Ugly acts of desperation
Joe Conason
The right has hit new depths with its scurrilous and idiotic attacks on Cindy Sheehan, a politically inexperienced mother in deep pain.
Should I leave my husband because I don’t have the hots for him?
Cary Tennis
I've had some affairs and tried to leave, but he may be the best thing that will ever happen to me.
Thousands gathered to support Sheehan, or did they?
Aaron Kinney
War protesters held vigils Wednesday for fallen soldiers in Iraq. Did Rush Limbaugh believe it?
The tale of “Red Scorpion”
James Verini
The strange Hollywood interlude of the most scandal-ridden man in Washington.
The Ninth tale
Kevin Berger
A sublime new recording of Mahler's Ninth Symphony, and the recent publication of "Letters to His Wife," recall the chilling summer when the Austrian composer faced down his demons and wrote his masterpiece.
Smearing Cindy Sheehan
Farhad Manjoo
Conservatives are attacking her as a dupe of the left whos exploiting her dead son. Some relatives have piled on too. But the grieving mother says her well-timed Crawford visit is "my idea, my mission, my vision."
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers debate pork-barrel politics and whether Cindy Sheehan is a flip-flopper. Plus: A veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder responds to Mark Benjamin's "Sticker Shock Over Shell Shock."
Run, Andy, run!
Aaron Kinney
If head coach Andy Reid doesn't junk his pass-first philosophy -- especially with his top receivers now grounded -- the Philadelphia Eagles will never be more than Super Bowl bridesmaids.
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