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Democracy inaction
James K. Galbraith
If U.S. officials who are complaining about election fraud in Ukraine applied the same standards in Ohio, then our own presidential election certainly was stolen.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Enough plasma TVs will make the scary gangbangers go away, Ewan McGregor tours Mongolia by motorcycle, and "Tom Goes to the Mayor" is extremely weird yet not funny!
“House of Flying Daggers”
Stephanie Zacharek
The director of "Hero" comes out with a follow-up so heroically seductive you may just faint into its arms.
Looking for votes, finding America
Jonathan Alford
Scared, angry and needing to act, I left California to volunteer for John Kerry in Pennsylvania. I changed some minds -- including my own.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The destruction of two Russian jetliners is proof that bombs, not skyjackings, are the current terrorist threat to watch for. But just what is a Tupolev jet, anyway?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Olympics: The Dream Team that couldn't shoot straight. Plus: Ginobili can! And: NBC holds the syrup and shows actual events.
If murder won’t work, try crying libel
Katharine Mieszkowski
Her partner was kidnapped and beheaded. Now, charges Ukrainian journalist Olena Prytula, the government is using the courts to shut down her crusading Web site.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "A Call to Conscience," by former U.S. diplomat Roger Morris. Plus: Does the demise of the Soviet Union foretell the fate of Cuba after Fidel?
Iraq by the numbers
Geraldine Sealey
From swatting flies to stirring up hornets’ nests
Husain Haqqani
A new terrorist document shows that as the U.S. flails in Iraq, only al-Qaida seems to have a strategy.
Journey to the “planet of thin”
Kera Bolonik
The author of "Passing for Thin: How I Lost Half My Weight and Found Myself" talks about a lifetime of physical and psychic pain brought on by her weight, and even after losing 188 pounds, how far she still has to go.
Poisoning the roots of the techno-boom
Jeff Taylor
An engineer's perspective: Outsourcing jobs to India doesn't just hurt workers but also threatens the health of the entire American technology sector.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Does lavatory refuse ever fall from the sky? And there can't really be an airline called Aerobanana, can there?
He had me at “allo”
Salon Staff
My Ukrainian composer spoke no English, had carpetlike back hair, and smelled vaguely of cooked cabbage. What's not to love?
Italy’s sex slaves
Laura Fraser
Young women from Africa and Eastern Europe are lured to Italy with the promise of good jobs
and a new life. But when they get there they are beaten, raped and forced into prostitution.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Lennox Lewis' title defense imitates a Humphrey Bogart movie, sort of. Plus: Can we vote Tonya Harding onto the island?
Operation Inflate the Coalition
Jake Tapper
During the last Gulf War, 32 nations sent troops. This time around, 3 nations did. So how is Donald Rumsfeld claiming Operation Iraqi Freedom is larger than the '91 coalition?
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Conservative crackup on Iraq: Rice and Safire scramble to defend Bush policy. Plus: Almost three out of four voters believe Bush must prove his case against Iraq.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to an interview with John McWhorter about his new book "Authentically Black" and to a review of Amy Chua's "World On Fire."
Early American horror show
Laura Miller
The Salem Witch Trials remain a hideous -- yet disturbingly familiar -- mystery.
“Nowhere Man” by Aleksandar Hemon
Laura Miller
The story of a Sarajevan stranded in Chicago during the recent war offers an immigrant's hilarious and wretched view of American society.
Ode to WorldCom’s failure
Steven Boyd Saum
Sometimes, schadenfreude is OK, especially when the target is a rude telecom company that dreamed of world domination.
The new gilded age and its discontents
Damien Cave
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.
“I have the American dream licked”
Amy Benfer
The nation's most heavily armed rocker extols his new book, "Kill It and Grill It," blasts hippie environmentalists, praises Rush and says the success of "The Osbournes" reveals the soullessness of mankind.
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