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Salon Radio: Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia
Glenn Greenwald
A leading expert on the former Soviet republics disputes the dominant American media narrative of this conflict.
Will immigration reform turn red states blue?
Andrew Leonard
A gnarly paradox for Republican employers: Granting citizenship to low-wage illegal immigrant workers boosts Democratic political power.
Living on hope
Garrison Keillor
An influx of inspired Democrats and a smart, well-spoken woman for speaker could be just what the doctor ordered.
Destination: Southern Italy
Anna Monardo
The grit -- and beauty -- of this land of Mafioso is captured in the mysteries of Leonardo Sciascia and the expat writings of Mary Taylor Simeti.
How bad is he?
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.
Generation jihad?
Der Spiegel staff
The chaos in France is the latest flash point for a profound crisis of integration facing Europe.
The Iraqi constitution: DOA?
Juan Cole
Angry and marginalized, Sunnis are threatening to torpedo Iraq's constitution. Disaster looms, and the Bush administration's blunders are largely to blame.
In Iraq, more killings but no constitution
T.g.
Will the Iraqi National Assembly meet its new deadline? How many more will die in the meantime?
Two million tragedies we can’t ignore
Jonathan Steele
Unless Sudan wants 20 more years of civil war, it must rein in the Janjaweed and ensure that next week's peace talks bear fruit.
“There’s just no way I can walk away”
Julia Scott
A professor urges action on Darfur, saying the U.S. should be embarrassed about declaring the violence genocide while doing so little to stop it.
The small state of big politics
Mark Follman
Vermont has an idea or three about how to deal with life in the time of George W. Bush.
Green Mountain Boys gone to war
Mark Follman
Letters
Salon Staff
Progressives debate the merits of sealing blue-state borders during Bush's second term, and protest Salon's rough handling of "Not One Damn Dime Day."
Long live secession!
Christopher Ketcham
It will never work, but that doesn't stop blue-state radicals from insisting they have the right to break up Bush's -- and Lincoln's -- "imperial" union. A revolutionary guide to American history.
Where democracy refuses to die
David Talbot
The media was pro-government. In much of the country, the election machinery was controlled by the ruling party. Voter fraud was rampant. But the people of Ukraine will not surrender.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Who are the hateful states now?" Northerners and Southerners spar over David Talbot's review of "American Brutus."
Old times there are not forgotten
David Talbot
John Wilkes Booth, the South's romantic villain, refused to accept the triumph of Northern values. Some things never change.
If at first you don’t secede
Michelle Goldberg
Feeling they've lost any say in how the nation is run, liberals are turning to an unfamiliar philosophy: States' rights.
Red state readers write
Salon Staff
Progressives in Bush country give their blue state neighbors a piece of their minds.
What do we do now?
Salon Staff
Politicos, academics and artists -- Huffington, Paglia, Lamott, McInerney, Moby and more -- respond to the prospect of four more years of Bush.
Balancing the risks in holy Najaf
Michael Howard
Iraqi PM indicates he is wary of potential fallout from desecrating Imam Ali shrine and 'martyring' rebel cleric.
Between Iraq and a hard place
Steven A. Cook
From the Iraq quagmire to our incoherent Saudi relationship to our pro-Sharon tilt, U.S. Mideast policy is a shambles.
Antiwar hero
John F. Callahan
He made history by challenging a president who had plunged the nation into a calamitous war. More than three decades later, Gene McCarthy reflects on his legendary race against Lyndon Johnson -- and the current campaign to unseat George W. Bush.
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