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The powder keg
Michelle Goldberg
The U.S. helped build the Islamic fundamentalist movement threatening to take over Pakistan. Now can it rescue the world from the deadly consequences?
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers repond to essays on the origins of Halloween and the Salem Witch Trials.
Microsoft’s media monopoly
Farhad Manjoo
Bill Gates wants to control the delivery of digital entertainment into your home. And according to a lawsuit brought by a pioneering software company, he's prepared to crush anything that gets in his way. First of two parts.
Miss America’s stealth virginity campaign
Lara Riscol
With the coveted tiara firmly in her grasp, beauty queen Erika Harold quickly unveiled plans to promote her pet cause: Abstinence-only sex education.
Primeval terror (since 1929)
Laura Miller
You think Halloween has pagan roots? Guess again. Two new histories of America's second favorite holiday reveal the truth.
Peace kooks
Michelle Goldberg
The new antiwar movement is in danger of being hijacked by bizarre extremist groups -- and most protesters don't even know it.
Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile
Richard Koman
Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone.
When Playboy was hot
Charles Taylor
Once upon a time, magazines were meant to be read, not just eyeballed. Today's readers lust for that kind of literary excitement.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
A candidate turns negative -- again! -- but his stand on the issues provides the real entertainment.
Post mortem
Brendan Nyhan
A look at the Washington Post story that launched a week of partisan fury.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
How could a pilot not be trained for fog landings? And how is "Jet Smarter" author Diana Fairechild like Ralph Nader with a tray of peanuts?
Hitler’s best friend
Wesley Yang
The debate over Albert Speer's responsibility for Nazi war crimes rages on in a new biography of the Third Reich's master architect and planner.
“Strange Matters” by Tom Siegfried
Thomas Wilson
From strange quark matter to multiple universes, visionaries predict the weird things science has yet to discover.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
What's in Tony Blair's important dossier? Plus: Gore speaks -- and so do the polls.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Why are we going to war in Iraq? Plus: What Tony Blair told the Germans about Iraq. Behold, the Wayback Machine!
The big NEA-Sept. 11 lie, cont’d.
Brendan Nyhan
Blaming the NEA for preaching tolerance toward al-Qaida is too much fun for conservatives to stop. Even if it isn't true.
“Of Moths and Men” by Judith Hooper
Alison Motluk
It was a world-famous example of evolution in action, and it was rigged. How the case of the peppered moth proved that "scientific fact" sometimes isn't either.
How greedy was my Valley?
Andrew Leonard
A noir mystery and an academic study anatomize Silicon Valley's culture of fast money and culture splicing.
“The Partly Cloudy Patriot” by Sarah Vowell
Douglas Cruickshank
A "This American Life" commentator celebrates nerds and explains how to love your country without turning into a boorish, jingoistic, kitsch-crazed lout.
The big NEA-Sept. 11 lie
Brendan Nyhan
How the conservative Washington Times helped create a myth about the teachers' union and Sept. 11 that has become conventional wisdom.
“Drawing the Line” by Steven M. Wise
Kurt Kleiner
A Harvard professor says science itself proves that such animals as parrots, apes and elephants should be considered persons with legal rights.
My argument with white nationalists
David Horowitz
They're wrong, but they're the natural outgrowth of left-wing multiculturalism. We are all prisoners of identity politics now.
Lights! Camera! Apocalypse!
John Gorenfeld
Washed-up Hollywood stars battle the antichrist, and his smooth-talking liberal minions, in the wacky parallel universe of "end-times" Christian movies.
A diary of baseball’s coming crunch time
Keith Olbermann
Posturing owners! Angry bankers! Scary lawyers! Rats who gnaw the eyes out first! A day by day guide to the last weeks of the labor war.
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