Currently in Salon

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  Directors of the decade: No. 10 Michael Bay
  You can love or hate the dumb, loud power of the man who typifies 21st-century Hollywood. But you can't escape it
  By Matt Zoller Seitz
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  White House as helpless victim on healthcare
  Nonsense. The administration is getting the bill that it -- more or less -- wanted all along
  Glenn Greenwald
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  President Lieberman's bitter pill
  The erstwhile Democrat throws yet another monkey wrench into healthcare reform plans. Can progressives recover?
  By Mike Madden
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  "Crazy Heart": Truck-stop romeo stripped down
  Jeff Bridges gives the finest performance of the year in this modest but glowing country-music drama
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  Films of the decade: "Yi Yi"
  Taiwanese director Edward Yang's final film isn't just the greatest of the '00s -- it might be the greatest ever
  Vadim Rizov
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  Senate healthcare bill: Time to kill it?
  Is reform without public option worth it? Markos, Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Howard Dean and others weigh in
  Thomas Schaller
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  Why is Obama still protecting Lieberman?
  He's not your friend, Mr. President
  By Darren Hutchinson
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  Queen Victoria to literature: Where is the love?
  Historical fiction has never given the longest-reigning monarch in English history her due
  By Laura Miller
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  Twiggy's Photoshop disaster
  Authorities in the UK banned a misleading ad, but they still don't think heavy retouching is socially irresponsible
  Kate Harding
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  Films of the decade: "Adaptation"
  Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze changed how I write -- and reminded me why I wanted to in the first place
  Scott Z. Burns