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Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Does George Will bother to check if he's right? Plus: Bush envoy says Iraq war "unwise."
The blowhard next door
Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer
The boyish Sean Hannity seems poised to inherit Rush Limbaugh's mantle. And he isn't letting little things like facts get in his way to the top.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Conservative columnist gets duped by a spoof. Don't cry for Cynthia McKinney. Plus: This fall's most important book.
Fox populi
Charles P. Pierce
What do the barking heads of Fox News Channel and other Murdoch media have that CNN, Rather and Donahue don't? A true, virtuous, tabloid soul.
The new racial profilers
David Horowitz
Ward Connerly's new crusade would get the government out of the business of tracking everybody's racial identity. But liberals still don't get it.
The conspiracy theory that wouldn’t die
Damien Cave
Did a shadowy group of American diplomats threaten the Taliban last year, provoking the 9/11 attack? Many on the left think so. Now the diplomats tell their side of the story.
Bobby Bowden’s sick humor
Keith Olbermann
Defenders say the FSU coach borrowed Todd Beamer's phrase "Let's Roll" with the greatest respect. So then why did he make a joke about it with reporters?
More ways to misuse 9/11
Keith Olbermann
When a college football team makes "Let's Roll" its slogan, is it patriotism or profiteering?
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
How long will the White House counterterrorism chief stay? Plus: Ann Coulter's publisher considers a correction.
“Barbed Wire: A Political History” by Olivier Razac
Damien Cave
Here's how a simple twist of spiked metal ravaged the American West, crucified a generation of young men and terrorized millions of Europeans.
Crazy like a desert fox
Anthony York
Saddam's plea to the U.N. is completely phony. But it could be effective.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Bush says he wants corporate tax evaders to knock it off -- but is his cabinet listening? Plus: Republicans suddenly embrace Medicare.
Critic vs. critic
Salon Staff
Readers respond to a story about Dale Peck's attack on Rick Moody and what makes for good criticism. Plus: "Snobbery" author's homophobic past.
“Tadpole”
Stephanie Zacharek
A wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a Mrs. Robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women.
Looking for a silver lining
Ben Fritz
Republicans: Democrats want the economy to fail! Democrats: Republicans made it fail! They're both wrong.
Sometimes a snake orgy is just a snake orgy
Susan McCarthy
A new book examines what we can and can't learn about sex from watching bonobos, birds and earwigs.
“Snobbery,” by Joseph Epstein
JoAnn Gutin
From Ivy League colleges to the rarefied readers of the New York Review of Books, a social critic examines the American style of snootiness.
Foul cry
Ben Fritz
When media watchdogs like FAIR and MRC complain about bias, they often only reveal their own.
Debunking Deep Throat’s debunkers
Ken Hughes
Could the famous anonymous source have scribbled on Bob Woodward's newspaper or received signals from his balcony? A historian walks a mile in Deep Throat's shoes to settle the debate.
When right-wing fembots attack
Charles Taylor
Ann Coulter dishes out a fresh bookful of hypocrisy, distortion and half-crazed rants. Can't conservatives find a better champion than this?
Keeping the new black candidates down
Jake Tapper
When young African-American challengers face off against their trailblazing predecessors, they often get called pawns of whitey.
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