Currently in Salon

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  White House as helpless victim on health care
  Nonsense. The administration is getting the bill which they -- 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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  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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  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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  Hugs and kisses and cooking-for-you wishes
  Who do you want to celebrate the holidays with? Plus: Last week's holiday host drink winners
  By Francis Lam
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  The K Chronicles
  What is it about that guy that gives me the creeps?
  By Keith Knight
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  Don't mess with Christmas
  It's a Christian holiday, dammit, and it's plain wrong to rewrite "Silent Night." Unitarians, I'm talking to you!
  By Garrison Keillor
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  Welcome to Gitmo North
  What's the point of moving the essential elements of this detention camp to Illinois?
  Glenn Greenwald
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  Films of the decade: "Synecdoche, New York"
  Charlie Kaufman's directing debut mixes devastating psychodrama and 21st-century social portraiture
  Andrew Grant