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The Tea Party’s war on mass transit

House Republicans try to gut federal funds for subways as they extend the culture wars to urban policy issues

Retired firefighter Jim Cerro, second from right, of Madison, cheers the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in Madison, Wis. 2012 Elections

Whose Wisconsin recall is it?

Veer to the populist left or hug the middle of the road: That's the choice facing the campaign against Scott Walker

A riot police officer throws a stone at demonstrators during violent protests in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square February 12, 2012 GlobalPost

Can Greece thwart a complete meltdown?

The government's austerity measures sparked violent protests -- and still aren't enough to guarantee an EU bailout

US Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Columbia Law School, February 10, 2012. Abortion

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's alternative abortion history

The Supreme Court justice reflects on her legacy -- and the little-known case she wishes had preceded Roe v. Wade

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum 2012 Elections

No, Newt, don’t quit to make room for Santorum

Never, ever listen to the National Review

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Welcome to a nightmare Middle East

Inside Syria’s whirlwind of war

The most complex and dangerous conflict on the planet keeps getting worse. Will the U.S. intervene?

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Monday, Feb 13, 2012 6:38 PM UTC2012-02-13T18:38:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Syrian rebels are seen outside of Idlib, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012

Syria’s looming threat of civil war

As violence rages on, formerly mixed communities are splitting along old religious fault lines

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Monday, Feb 13, 2012 6:20 PM UTC2012-02-13T18:20:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
santorum

Santorum’s well-compensated love of fracking

His claims about the practice's safety puts him far to the right of his state's GOP -- and the oil industry

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Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:28 PM UTC2012-02-13T16:28:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
At the CPAC-Occupy beer summit

At the CPAC-Occupy beer summit

Over drinks, foot soldiers of the left and right explore what they agree on: more than you'd think

Topics:, 4Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:13 PM UTC2012-02-13T16:13:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Whitney Houston at Wembley Stadium in 1988.

Whitney Houston’s lessons in love

As a girl, the late diva's songs taught me about love. As an adult, she showed me about loss and pain

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Monday, Feb 13, 2012 3:48 PM UTC2012-02-13T15:48:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
A helicopter lands near U.S. soldiers at the Forward Operating Base Bostic  in Kunar, Afghanistan

Our non-withdrawal from Afghanistan

Despite the alleged 2014 end date, the military has ramped up its construction of long-term bases

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Monday, Feb 13, 2012 1:00 PM UTC2012-02-13T13:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Grover Norquist CPAC

“We don’t need someone to think”

Behind the scenes at CPAC: Who needs to agree on a presidential nominee? The strategy is to rule through Congress

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Monday, Feb 13, 2012 12:53 PM UTC2012-02-13T12:53:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Mitt Romney

How rough it’s gotten for Mitt

When not completely melting down is considered good news, you’ve got a problem

Topics: 43Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 12:30 PM UTC2012-02-13T12:30:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Adele

The Grammys’ most memorable moments

Adele, Glen Campbell and the Boss triumph, Whitney's remembered -- but what was Nicki Minaj up to?

Topics:, , , , 9Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:00 AM UTC2012-02-13T04:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
nsk_state tk

A passport to utopia

The satirical NSK State movement was founded in socialist Yugoslavia in 1984. It has now opened four embassies

Topics:, 8Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-13T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Cary Tennis

I’m smoking too much pot

I know I'm going to have to quit once I get pregnant, but I need it for the stress relief

Topics:, , , 70Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-13T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
wtr_ya2

“The Fault in Our Stars” and “There Is No Dog”: Not kids’ stuff

Two new young adult novels are smarter, better-written and more emotionally complex than most adult fiction

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 8:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T20:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Warwick Davis and Ricky Gervias in "Life's Too Short"

Ricky Gervais: My conscience never takes a day off

In a Salon exclusive, the comedian answers critics, explains his hilarious new HBO show, and talks "Office" sequels

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 5:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T17:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
eyepatch

Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume

When I took the job at the bar, I looked down on it -- and the women who worked there. But I had so much to learn

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 3:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T15:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
jefferson_lincoln_99

America’s failed promise of equal opportunity

To achieve a truly fair society, we need to look to Lincoln, not Jefferson

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 2:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T14:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Gore Vidal, Tony Kushner and James Baldwin

Is gay literature over?

In an era of same-sex marriage and "Modern Family," the role of gay writers is changing. An expert explains how

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 1:54 PM UTC2012-02-12T13:54:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Obit Whitney Houston

A voice that touched us all

Like Michael Jackson, another icon lost to addiction and fame, Whitney was an awe-inspiring, genre-crossing pioneer

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 3:15 AM UTC2012-02-12T03:15:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Singer Whitney Houston is shown during the Whitney Houston "I Look To You" CD Listening Party held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday July 23, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California.

Whitney Houston dies at 48

A look back at the glorious career and biggest hits of the troubled pop diva

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 2:33 AM UTC2012-02-12T02:33:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Whitney Houston

Didn’t she almost have it all?

Whitney Houston died Saturday at 48. As Salon wrote six years ago, it's a tragedy too many people saw coming

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Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-12T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Transsexuals in porn

Porn’s taboo transsexual stars

"T-girls" are fighting for respect in the adult biz. What does it mean for the general acceptance of trans women?

Topics: 44Comments

Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 10:00 PM UTC2012-02-11T22:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
internet_magic

The Internet makes magic disappear

YouTube has killed the magician's art, and threatens the stores where tricks have been passed down for generations

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 9:05 PM UTC2012-02-11T21:05:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Book event with Noam Chomsky

Talking American Justice with the MIT Professor and political activist

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 8:00 PM UTC2012-02-11T20:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
currency

The case for a global currency

Would it make more sense to have one currency for the entire world?

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 6:00 PM UTC2012-02-11T18:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Clockwise from left: Aunt Sissy, Uncle Frank, Aunt Jonie and Aunt Rosie

Bridging the Irish-Italian divide

A Jersey transplant shares the chicken Parmesan recipe his outcast aunt brought to the family

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 5:00 PM UTC2012-02-11T17:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Paul Gauguin, "Arearea no Varua ino (Words of the Devil, or Reclining Tahitian Women)," 1894.

Paul Gauguin’s Polynesian “paradise”

An innovative new exhibition seeks to put the French artist's exotic voyages into greater context

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 5:00 PM UTC2012-02-11T17:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Will Doig

Taking sex out of the city

We lead R-rated lives. So why are so many cities -- even New York -- declaring war on adult entertainment?

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 2:00 PM UTC2012-02-11T14:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
The Walking Dead

“Walking Dead” creator: Get ready for breakneck pace

Robert Kirkman heard fans' howls about Season 2 being dull, and promises to bring the action starting Sunday

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-11T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Esasha LeBlanc, left, an Army drill sergeant at Fort Jackson, S.C., works with Pvt. Daniel Ladd, 17, of Darlington, S.C.

Female soldiers fight the brass ceiling

While relenting on gay soldiers, the Pentagon still excludes women from combat

Topics: 92Comments

Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 12:00 AM UTC2012-02-11T00:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Santorum and Boies

Catholic tribalism and the contraceptive flap

Watching liberals defend a church they disagree with showed us that even Catholic insiders can feel like outsiders

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 9:45 PM UTC2012-02-10T21:45:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Writer Salman Rushdie attends an event in the Joan Fuster state library in Barcelona

Salman Rushdie fears nothing

The famed author opens up to Salon about new threats, his just-finished memoir and his forthcoming TV show

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 9:27 PM UTC2012-02-10T21:27:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Confronting CPAC

The two Americas clash at CPAC

Union demonstrators march on the conservative enclave

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 8:40 PM UTC2012-02-10T20:40:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Glamour magazine

Making the perfect cover girl

After polling its readers about retouching, Glamour vows to back off Photoshop

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 8:31 PM UTC2012-02-10T20:31:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy

A birth-control compromise could divide the right

Obama's birth control move may have satisfied most sides -- and revealed the truth about the bishops' opposition

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 7:15 PM UTC2012-02-10T19:15:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Friday, Feb 10, 2012 6:57 PM UTC2012-02-10T18:57:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Rick Santorum

The answer that’s been staring them in the face

Rick Santorum's CPAC performance demonstrates what separates him from previous Romney foes: Competence

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 6:10 PM UTC2012-02-10T18:10:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
And the oscar goes to

And the Oscar goes to … “Twilight”!

What if the Academy honored movies that people really liked? The "Twilight" vs. "Melancholia" showdown, at last

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 6:10 PM UTC2012-02-10T18:10:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Karl Lagerfeld and British singer Adele

Adele: Too fat for fashion designer

Karl Lagerfeld backpedals on his insulting comments about the pop star's weight -- only to blunder again

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 5:00 PM UTC2012-02-10T17:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Ask the pilot

Mexico City does it right

Bleachers in the arrivals lobby -- brilliant. Plus: The funniest thing ever written

Topics: 51Comments

Friday, Feb 10, 2012 3:00 PM UTC2012-02-10T15:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
This Oct. 12, 2011 file photo shows the J.P. Morgan Chase logo at the base of one of the bank's larger Lower Manhattan buildings in New York

The big banks win again

Foreclosure victims get little help in a mortgage-settlement plan that only benefits the banks' bottom line

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 2:34 PM UTC2012-02-10T14:34:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Henrique Capriles Radonsk

The man who could beat Chavez

A charismatic governor has emerged as the first legitimate threat to the Venezuelan president's 13-year tenure

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Friday, Feb 10, 2012 1:59 PM UTC2012-02-10T13:59:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Howard Dean and Rudy Giuliani

Israel, MEK and state sponsor of Terror groups

A new report claims that MEK is behind the assassination of Iran's scientists, and Israel funds them

487Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 6:20 PM UTC2012-02-13T18:20:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
santorum

Santorum’s well-compensated love of fracking

His claims about the practice's safety puts him far to the right of his state's GOP -- and the oil industry

Topics:, , 11Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:28 PM UTC2012-02-13T16:28:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
At the CPAC-Occupy beer summit

At the CPAC-Occupy beer summit

Over drinks, foot soldiers of the left and right explore what they agree on: more than you'd think

Topics:, 4Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 1:00 PM UTC2012-02-13T13:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Grover Norquist CPAC

“We don’t need someone to think”

Behind the scenes at CPAC: Who needs to agree on a presidential nominee? The strategy is to rule through Congress

Topics:, , , 62Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 12:53 PM UTC2012-02-13T12:53:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Mitt Romney

How rough it’s gotten for Mitt

When not completely melting down is considered good news, you’ve got a problem

Topics: 43Comments

Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 3:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T15:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
jefferson_lincoln_99

America’s failed promise of equal opportunity

To achieve a truly fair society, we need to look to Lincoln, not Jefferson

Topics:, 136Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 6:38 PM UTC2012-02-13T18:38:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Syrian rebels are seen outside of Idlib, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012

Syria’s looming threat of civil war

As violence rages on, formerly mixed communities are splitting along old religious fault lines

Topics:, 0Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 6:20 PM UTC2012-02-13T18:20:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
santorum

Santorum’s well-compensated love of fracking

His claims about the practice's safety puts him far to the right of his state's GOP -- and the oil industry

Topics:, , 11Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:28 PM UTC2012-02-13T16:28:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
At the CPAC-Occupy beer summit

At the CPAC-Occupy beer summit

Over drinks, foot soldiers of the left and right explore what they agree on: more than you'd think

Topics:, 4Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 3:48 PM UTC2012-02-13T15:48:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
A helicopter lands near U.S. soldiers at the Forward Operating Base Bostic  in Kunar, Afghanistan

Our non-withdrawal from Afghanistan

Despite the alleged 2014 end date, the military has ramped up its construction of long-term bases

Topics:, , 18Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 1:00 PM UTC2012-02-13T13:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Grover Norquist CPAC

“We don’t need someone to think”

Behind the scenes at CPAC: Who needs to agree on a presidential nominee? The strategy is to rule through Congress

Topics:, , , 62Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:13 PM UTC2012-02-13T16:13:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Whitney Houston at Wembley Stadium in 1988.

Whitney Houston’s lessons in love

As a girl, the late diva's songs taught me about love. As an adult, she showed me about loss and pain

Topics:, , , 15Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 12:30 PM UTC2012-02-13T12:30:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Adele

The Grammys’ most memorable moments

Adele, Glen Campbell and the Boss triumph, Whitney's remembered -- but what was Nicki Minaj up to?

Topics:, , , , 9Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-13T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
wtr_ya2

“The Fault in Our Stars” and “There Is No Dog”: Not kids’ stuff

Two new young adult novels are smarter, better-written and more emotionally complex than most adult fiction

Topics:, , , , , , 15Comments

Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 8:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T20:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Warwick Davis and Ricky Gervias in "Life's Too Short"

Ricky Gervais: My conscience never takes a day off

In a Salon exclusive, the comedian answers critics, explains his hilarious new HBO show, and talks "Office" sequels

Topics:, , , , , 19Comments

Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 2:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T14:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Gore Vidal, Tony Kushner and James Baldwin

Is gay literature over?

In an era of same-sex marriage and "Modern Family," the role of gay writers is changing. An expert explains how

Topics:, , 55Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 4:00 AM UTC2012-02-13T04:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
nsk_state tk

A passport to utopia

The satirical NSK State movement was founded in socialist Yugoslavia in 1984. It has now opened four embassies

Topics:, 8Comments

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-13T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Cary Tennis

I’m smoking too much pot

I know I'm going to have to quit once I get pregnant, but I need it for the stress relief

Topics:, , , 70Comments

Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 5:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T17:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
eyepatch

Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume

When I took the job at the bar, I looked down on it -- and the women who worked there. But I had so much to learn

Topics:, , 30Comments

Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 2:00 PM UTC2012-02-12T14:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Gore Vidal, Tony Kushner and James Baldwin

Is gay literature over?

In an era of same-sex marriage and "Modern Family," the role of gay writers is changing. An expert explains how

Topics:, , 55Comments

Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 1:00 AM UTC2012-02-12T01:00:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T
Transsexuals in porn

Porn’s taboo transsexual stars

"T-girls" are fighting for respect in the adult biz. What does it mean for the general acceptance of trans women?

Topics: 44Comments

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