Currently in Salon

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  Can you turn us on with chocolate and chili peppers?
  Whether Valentine's or Schmalentine's, we're sure you can whip up something hot and sexy. Plus, last week's winners
  By Francis Lam
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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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  Gil Scott-Heron, the baddest musical comeback
  The hip-hop pioneer on his Johnny Cash-style reinvention, Rikers Island and why he won't be singing about Fox News
  By Steve Almond
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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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  Having cheated death, I feel alive
  Even Ace Hardware and trashy TV marathons feel like small miracles after cancer surgery
  By Cary Tennis
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  The perfect double bill: "A Serious Man" and "Parents"
  Couple the Coens' suburban black comedy with Bob Balaban's delirious cannibal-cult nightmare
  By Erik Nelson
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  Obamanomics one year out
  Sagging demand and soaring deficits have the right wing going nuts and the president against the wall
  By Robert Reich
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  Best and worst of Super Bowl ads
  Cars, beer, Betty White -- and a whole heap of male anxiety
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams