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Letters
Salon Staff
Readers debate whether we should all learn to stop worrying and love the "nuclear option."
Down with the judicial tyrants who are killing Terri Schiavo!
Joe Conason
Oops -- most of them are Republican. Never mind.
Letters
Salon Staff
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Readers shed few tears for Carly Fiorina.
Thong warfare and the kidnapped beauty queen
Dana Vachon
A tour of socialist Venezuela, where 98 percent of the people are poor and the other 2 percent ogle metrosexual Tarzans and silicone-perfect blonds at a well-lubed fashion show.
The new Monkey Trial
Michelle Goldberg
By persuading the Dover, Pa., school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself.
The rising
Jann S. Wenner
As the Vote for Change concerts begin, Bruce Springsteen tells Rolling Stone why he had to take a stand this election year.
Futures bright and terrible
Salon Staff
Table Talkers delve into waste-eating cicadas, the Bush presidency from the vantage point of 2104 and songs only our kids could make up.
The mouse who would be king
Farhad Manjoo
Disney's ever-expanding copyright powers are threatening to squash everyone's cultural creativity. As two new books compellingly argue, the time is ripe for more anarchy, and fewer lawyers.
Triumph of the telcos
G. Pascal Zachary
Internet telephony advocates are predicting that free long distance means the downfall of Big Telecom. But it won't be so easy to topple the king.
Welcome to the quagmire
Juan Cole
The Bush administration invaded Iraq a year ago expecting a shower of rose petals. Today, the country is on the verge of chaos, and there may be no way to stop it.
The Bush dynasty’s dark magic
Joan Walsh
One-time Republican hero Kevin Phillips dares to speak up against the Walker-Bush oligarchy that rules the American state through oil, intelligence, big money and the power of the Christian right.
Letters
Salon Staff
"The issue of sex and race is still a toxic one for South Carolina." Plus: Why Jews shouldn't have Christmas envy.
Love letters
Karen Croft
The author of "A Venetian Affair" says we can learn much from the story of 18th century passion between his ancestor and the woman he wasn't allowed to marry.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Could the government have prevented 9/11? Early reports on a congressional investigation offer muddled answers.
“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue”
Gary Kamiya
In "Areopagitica," Milton made a magisterial case not just for freedom of speech, but for freedom of soul.
Should Democrats get mad — or get even?
Michelle Goldberg
The very mention of George W. Bush's name sends progressives into paroxysms of rage. But political veterans warn that anger has to be channeled into a winning campaign.
The Enronization of Washington
Arianna Huffington
The White House is playing fast and loose with the numbers in order to mislead its "shareholders" -- the American people.
The world press on postwar Iraq
Mark Follman, Compiled by Laura McClure
In Iran, poor villagers say they hope the U.S. will liberate them next. Plus reports from Nigeria, Pakistan, Chile, the Philippines, Egypt, Russia and more.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Charles Taylor's essay on the Dixie Chicks' interview with Diane Sawyer.
Savage with the truth
Ben Fritz
Michael Savage's right-wing bestseller is an ignorant, error-filled, Coulter-like screech of hatred against left-wing "traitors" and uppity women like Sandra Day O'Connor. Here's the funny part: This guy has a Ph.D.!
Hunter S. Thompson
John Glassie
The godfather of gonzo says 9/11 caused a "nationwide nervous breakdown" -- and let the Bush crowd loot the country and savage American democracy.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the Christopher Hitchens interview, "How the Left Became Irrelevant."
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