America

The madness of "Mad Men" Has "Mad Men" gone mad?

Or maybe Matt Weiner knows that life in America really is that strange and brutal
  • What to do with your money now

    In the first installment of a new series, "Talk to Me Like I'm 5," expert Ilyce Glink explains what all Americans should be doing with their finances.
  • Payback's a bitch

    Margaret Atwood talks about the perils of debt -- and imagines a utopian future without greed.
  • America is scaring the hell out of us Canadians!

    I used to think America was just weird; now it's feeling a lot like 1932.
  • The dark history of burned flesh

    Drop those spareribs, imperialist pig-eaters! A new book argues that the great American barbecue smolders on the coals of genocidal racism.
  • Of war and cancer

    Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it.
  • In the military we trust

    Progressives who want to disarm U.S. militarism must first understand the nation's faith in the military -- one of our least elitist, most diverse institutions.
  • Seizing American supremacy

    Throughout history, rising powers have overtaken superpowers. The United States will not prove an exception.
  • Oh, horrors: Childless marriages, unwed cohabitation!

    Some say survey spells disaster for parenthood and matrimony.
  • Amish like me

    If we don't figure out what to do with our greenhouse gases, our great-grandchilden may end up learning to live the subsistence life.
  • Telling lies over good soldiers' graves

    Dishonesty has gutted the last patriotic holiday that means something.
  • It could happen here

    In an excerpt from his new book, Salon's columnist explains why, for the first time since the resignation of Richard M. Nixon, Americans have reason to doubt the future of their democracy.
  • New music

    Releases from Diana Ross, the Holmes Brothers, America and the Autumn Defense.
  • What's good for Bill Gates...

    The Microsoft mogul says America needs more foreign engineers and programmers to compete. Critics say it's all about cheap labor.
  • America's unlikely savior

    Recently, the U.S. was calling for Muqtada al-Sadr's head. Now, the fiery cleric may be the only man who can defuse Iraq's Sunni-Shiite conflict.
  • Christopher Hitchens' last battle

    The British hawk gives 10 reasons why Americans should be proud of the Iraq war. He goes 0 for 10.
  • Bush, God and the Democrats

    This country isn't secular or rational. And if the Dems want to win, they can't be either.
  • World to Americans: You're OK -- it's Bush we hate

    But if we reelect the least popular man on the planet, we could find ourselves being despised, too.
  • A man, a plan, a Fantasia, and an octopus

    What Table Talkers are saying about Bush, "American Idol" and eight-legged freaks.
  • The hermetically sealed conquerors

    Hunkered down in their weird security zone, the Americans who run Iraq have almost no contact with the country or its people.
  • Waiting for the command to start killing Americans

    In Sadr City, a friendly young Shiite shopkeeper buys me a 7 Up, then says he wants his ayatollah to call for jihad. And he's not alone.
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