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  • Bush liberates Europe!

    Wild celebrations greet president as 10-year marijuana sentences, assault rifles and politicians who never lose their hair sweep across continent!
    By Erik H. Thoreson October 12, 2002

  • Waving it my way

    My ambivalence about the flag remains. But it still flaps on my front porch, even as post-9/11 Old Glory mania fades.
    By King Kaufman July 4, 2002

  • "I'm A Stranger Here Myself"

    Listen to humorist and bestselling author Bill Bryson's account of coming back to the U.S. after living in Britain for two decades.
    December 4, 2001

  • The sorrow of war

    With every heartbreaking picture of innocent victims, more of the world turns against the U.S. bombing. But the American military has taken more care to minimize civilian casualties than any other armed force in the world.
    By Damien Cave and Max Garrone October 31, 2001

  • "The American Bully Strikes Back"

    By David Alford
    October 15, 2001

  • America the ignorant

    After Sept. 11, Americans have rushed to educate themselves about Islam, the Middle East and foreign affairs. But how did we get so benighted in the first place?
    By Laura Miller September 27, 2001

  • Better red than brain-dead

    Why did socialism fail in the United States -- and whose loss is it, anyway?
    By John Leonard August 17, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    Johnny Cash never killed a man just to watch him die, but he forged a career of love, God and murder.
    By David Hill May 18, 2000

  • Bittersweet orange

    The mysteries of a fleeting romance in Hanoi: He put his chicken in my soup. How should I respond?
    By W. Madrigal April 27, 2000

  • Brit's-eye view

    The specter of American gender extremism is making ripples across the Atlantic.
    By Cathy Young February 19, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    Tina Turner moves into house; Wynonna dives under the covers.
    By Jon Caramanica February 18, 2000

  • Confessions of a former self-hating white person

    It took a broken heart to teach me that guilty white liberals aren't the solution to America's racial strife, but part of the problem.
    By Joan Walsh February 17, 2000

  • Strangers in the night

    Europeans have such a flair for flirting that it must be transmitted via breast milk. Why don't Americans get it?
    By Christine Schoefer February 15, 2000

  • Albanian gangsters kidnapping women and girls to service troops

    Kosovo has not been part of the Eastern European sex trade that has flourished since the collapse of communism, but the lure of a 45,000-strong army has made it a new business.
    By Hank Hyena February 9, 2000

  • The perilous pepper of Phnom Penh

    A newcomer to Cambodia finds that the way to a stranger's heart is through her stomach.
    By Rosemary Berkeley January 21, 2000

  • Weirdly wired world

    Why is a Turkish village more connected than a Japanese megalopolis? Lonely Planet's peripatetic founder celebrates and laments the state of global communications.
    By Tony Wheeler November 10, 1999

  • Get Uncle Sam off my back! and other misguided impulses

    American government-bashers like to wrap themselves in a constitutional flag. But Garry Wills argues that the Founders wanted a strong government, not a weak one.
    By Gary Kamiya November 3, 1999

  • Let us now give "Thanks" some praise

    It's no Arthur Miller masterpiece, but TV's silly, subversive "Thanks" just might be "The Crucible's" sitcom equivalent.
    By Sarah Vowell August 25, 1999

  • Crying wolf

    Ellis Cose's Newsweek cover story set out to celebrate America's racial good news. So why did it wind up singing the same old despairing song?
    By Joan Walsh June 11, 1999

  • If you film it, they will come

    If you film it, they will come: A passionate sports fan begins his cross-country pilgrimage with a visit to Iowa's Field of Dreams. Excerpted from "Road Swing," by Steve Rushin.
    By Steve Rushin December 18, 1998

  • On the road with the Smokejumpers: Part Two

    Dead bunnies, canceled gigs, pizza and beer a San Francisco band explores America.
    By The King Teen November 11, 1998

  • Exile in "Pleasantville"

    Director Gary Ross fetishizes the '50s in this high-concept parable about the dangers of conformity.
    By Charles Taylor October 23, 1998

  • Movie Interview: Terry Gilliam

    The "Fear and Loathing" director stomps on Hollywood and American literalism.
    By David Wallis June 5, 1998

  • Murderers, cannibals -- lesbians!

    America has a distinguished history of spreading scandalous rumors about its politicians, and the latest batch of White House gossip is nothing new.
    By Jenn Shreve May 1, 1998

  • The Salon Interview: Gore Vidal

    An interview with Gore Vidal by Chris Haines.
    By Chris Haines January 14, 1998
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