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“Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945” by Frederick Taylor
Laura Miller
So the Allies ruthlessly -- and unjustifiably -- firebombed Germany's most beautiful city and murdered hundreds of thousands of people, right? Not quite, says a prominent British historian.
Web of inaccuracy
Geraldine Sealey
The Fix
Salon Staff
Dr. Seuss' widow disses Austin Powers, "Big Brother" in Bahrain is a bust, and George Clooney wants to wash your car -- in a toga. Plus: Backstage Oscar quotes galore.
The fog around Robert McNamara
David Talbot
Director Errol Morris discusses how his Oscar-winning "The Fog of War" resonates with George W. Bush's foreign policy in Iraq, and the complicated morality of his film's star.
Bush, Cheney the cable guys
Geraldine Sealey
Letters
Salon Staff
Is America a sociopathic child? Readers respond to Ann Marlowe's review of "Civilization and Its Enemies" by proclaiming "get stuffed!" and encouraging a New Zealand empire.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Would you like a little Old Testament with your coffee? How Alaska Airlines has been pushing the Bible for 20 years, and other tales of the religious skies.
Halliburton’s Iraq gravy train
Farhad Manjoo
A former procurement specialist for the giant, White House-connected company charges that it failed to seek out competitive bids -- enriching itself and costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars extra.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Jeweled Victoria's Secret bras for Charlize and Keisha? Should we feel sorry for Ben Affleck? And who wants to see a TV series about the Department of Homeland Security? Bush and Ridge, that's who!
The professor of smoochology
Jason Feifer
How a nebbishy ex-academic who keeps changing his name wound up traveling around the country convincing total strangers to kiss onstage.
“Civilization and Its Enemies” by Lee Harris
Ann Marlowe
In a brilliant response to the quandaries of 9/11, a ferociously independent thinker argues that only the United States has the moral credibility to lead.
“Making Good” and “The Cheating Culture”
Laura Miller
Researchers say we're breeding a nation of cheats, scammers, egotists and buck passers. But when they interviewed a group of young actors, scientists and journalists, guess who came out looking best?
William Safire, minister of disinformation
Barry Lando
The New York Times runs corrections when reporters get a middle initial wrong. So why does its conservative columnist get away with glaring errors that shape world affairs?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Sex parties, booze for high schoolers, rape. It's all in a night's recruiting at Colorado, several women say. How sad that none of this is shocking.
I want out
Cary Tennis
I've been seeing a woman for three years, but we both know it's over. How do I exit gracefully?
Perle’s pearls
Geraldine Sealey
“Bad news doesn’t get better with age”
Eric Boehlert
The retired officer who saw Bush National Guard files in a trash can talks back as the White House tries to discredit him, and urges the president to finally come clean.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Jennifer and Brad's abode singularly unfriendly to kids, Harvard gets a sex mag, and Robin Williams wants to channel Einstein. Plus: "Frasier," "Ed" and "Wanda" fans gather to rage against the dying light.
Letters
Salon Staff
Conservative author Marvin Olasky takes issue with "Avenging Angel of the Religious Right"; readers weigh in on President Bush's "missing year" from the National Guard.
Tempest at the Times
Christopher Dreher
The literary world is abuzz: Does New York Times editor Bill Keller want to take his influential book review section down-market?
Tuesday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
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
"Judy Dean is adorable and unabashedly normal." Plus: Readers lambaste Ann Coulter.
The Fix
Amy Reiter, Karen Croft
Britannia rules TV comedy at the Globes, Frodo and Gollum both get rings, and Bush has groupies? Plus: RIP, King of Kink.
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