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When did Obama start running for president?
Alex Koppelman
One reporter pieces together some clues and suggests the candidate may have made first moves toward a run before being elected to the Senate.
Tangled up in Dylan
Stephanie Zacharek
Suze Rotolo, the musician's first muse, has written an entertaining memoir about their love affair that is also a remarkable portrait of living and making art in the 1960s.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Here's one way to exploit people's fear of flying: Tell them airlines are saving money by skimping on fuel.
Let’s dump “Earth Day”
Joseph Romm
Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.
Critics’ Picks
Salon Staff
Salon's culture gurus tip you off to their favorite things this week: Playboy Mansion mood music, an ultra-hip style guide, the exciting return of "Lost."
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The bone-bending, ergonomic hell of economy class. Six easy ideas for making flying more comfortable.
The witty detective
Louis Bayard
Karen Joy Fowler's follow-up to bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" is a detective novel about a mystery writer whose tales come back to haunt her.
Feminism vs. “Sex and the City”?
Tracy Clark-Flory
An article asks whether it's possible for a feminist to like the HBO series.
Environmental advocacy at its finest
Vincent Rossmeier
A New York Post Op-Ed warns of a potential "dark side" to Whole Foods' ban on plastic bags.
More on Michael Mukasey’s false 9/11 and FISA claims
Glenn Greenwald
The Attorney General, under questioning yesterday, now admits that he erred in what he described. But that doesn't mitigate the core deceit
Responsibility for the last seven years
Glenn Greenwald
How can someone who urged in 2003 that torture occur in the "dark rooms" today insist that they never supported torture?
McCain’s lack of candor on reproductive rights
Joe Conason
On issues like abortion and sex education, the candidate is neither as moderate nor as principled as some might think.
“Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” kicks off
Steve Benen
After poorly attended and widely mocked events in October, David Horowitz is giving the "holiday" a sequel.
Through a bong, darkly
Gary Kamiya
A new book argues that the '60s counterculture achieved nothing of lasting importance. So why does the era continue to fascinate us?
Abortion, redacted
Catherine Price
Thanks to pressure from USAID, the world's largest database on reproductive planning eliminated "abortion" as a search term.
Richardson said Obama can’t beat McCain?
Alex Koppelman
Conflicting accounts of a meeting between Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton surface.
“That’s even worse than being a Democrat”
Vincent Rossmeier
The Department of Justice's inspector general is investigating whether a former DOJ employee lost her job because of suspicions about her sexual orientation.
A bad week for buffalo mozzarella
Andrew Leonard
China is the latest to ban imports, citing dioxin concerns. But how did the seventh century barbarian nomad Avars get involved in this mess?
Bonfire of the Bear-Stearns vanities
Andrew Leonard
It's time to trim the fat on Wall Street. No more fancy curtains for "the wife"
Quotes of the day
Alex Koppelman
John McCain excoriates those who sentimentalize war, which left us wondering: Who did that recently?
The farmer formerly known as Marvin
Love-Makes-a-Family
Would-be Idaho pol changes his name to Pro-Life. No, seriously. That's his entire name.
Is women’s studies dead?
Tedra Osell
A British newspaper pronounces the academic discipline "predictable, tiresome and dreary."
Panic in the pages
Laura Miller
Did comic books -- and the firestorm they touched off in the 1950s -- do more than rock 'n' roll to create the generation gap?
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