Currently in Salon

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  Surprise guest at White House briefing: Obama
  In a surprise press appearance, the president pushes back against GOP demands for "bipartisanship"
  Mike Madden
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  Oscar duel: Is Quentin Tarantino a great director?
  Great American auteur or hack recycler? Bloggers debate the "Inglourious Basterds" creator's legacy
  By Anne Thompson
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  The GOP's bad old ideas
  Bomb Iran and privatize Social Security. Really? That's all you've got?
  By Michael Lind
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  Salinger: "Recluse" with an ugly history of women
  How we've all found a convenient way of avoiding the truth about his troubled past
  By Mikki Halpin
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  Tea party genius: Sen. Larry Kudlow
  The CNBC talk show host has been spectacularly wrong on the economy for years. He obviously belongs in Congress
  Andrew Leonard
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  Yes, the 9/11 trial should be held in New York
  Mayor Bloomberg's flip-flop embarrassed the Obama administration and himself. He was right the first time
  By Joe Conason
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  The credit card trust lesson
  Why do we need a Consumer Financial Protection Agency? Because big banks only do the right thing when forced to
  Andrew Leonard
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  Pork is in the eye of the beholder
  Some of the stimulus bill's fiercest critics wrote letters asking the administration to fund local projects
  Mike Madden
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  Jessica Alba: Don't have surgery to look like me
  The starlet objects to a fan's extreme plan to reproduce her look
  Margaret Eby
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  GOP dusts off Bush playbook
  The fear-mongering that worked so well for Republicans in the early part of last decade is back with a vengeance
  Gabriel Winant