Damien Cave

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King baby
Walter Yetnikoff talks about running CBS Records in the '70s, Michael Jackson's strange habits -- and Janet Jackson's breasts.
Norman Lear responds
Yes, he's a progressive, says the famed TV producer -- but his campaign to turn out the youth vote is nonpartisan and open to conservatives and liberals alike.
Wish upon a star
Bush-bashers are hoping that entertainment celebrities will turn out crucial first-time voters. But the audiences aren't sold.
Cuba confidential
Ann Louise Bardach talks about the fading of Fidel, the end of the embargo, and the drive for democracy -- and why exile leaders aren't happy about any of it.
Reel world domination
If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so.
Dying for God
The author of "The Martyrs of Columbine" on the strange and sometimes violent collision of religion and politics.
MOSEX opens doors -- earth doesn't move
Overserious, rushed and muddled, the Museum of Sex comes across like an awkward adolescent on a first date.
Wall Street's worst nightmare
Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good?
Panic in the sheets
Abstinence crusaders are exploiting fears of a mysterious virus to scare teens away from having sex.
"The Money Shot" by Laura Grindstaff
The producers of daytime TV talk shows must woo wife beaters, drug addicts and other scum as guests. Their reward? Being treated like bottom-feeding slime by a public that laps it up.
Forbidden thoughts about 9/11: The readers respond
From "It was only white people" to hoping to get a 212 cell phone number to "I hope my father died," readers share their secret reactions to Sept. 11.
Forbidden thoughts about 9/11
From gloating about getting off work to enjoying the "country road" ambience of lower Manhattan to hating on-the-make firemen: A spectrum of improper responses to the terror attacks.
Imaginary infants as beacons of hope
Once again, Americans have conjured a baby boom out of a national tragedy. What better way to create a happy ending?
File sharing: Guilty as charged?
New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates.
The conspiracy theory that wouldn't die
Did a shadowy group of American diplomats threaten the Taliban last year, provoking the 9/11 attack? Many on the left think so. Now the diplomats tell their side of the story.
"Barbed Wire: A Political History" by Olivier Razac
Here's how a simple twist of spiked metal ravaged the American West, crucified a generation of young men and terrorized millions of Europeans.
Air Jordans
What changed leisure footwear forever and created the wonderful, hideous behemoth of contemporary consumer culture? It's gotta be da shoes.
Grime pays
Bush's cuts to the Superfund reward corporate polluters for stonewalling and leave neighbors of toxic sites frustrated and desperate.
The new gilded age and its discontents
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.
Interview with Joseph Stiglitz
The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics talks with Damien Cave about his book "Globalization and Its Discontents," the WorldCom scandal, the mistakes of the IMF and more.
It's time for ICANN to go
John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.
A long, slow revolution
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on school vouchers, one expert says dramatic change could be decades away.
Foxes guarding the chicken coop
President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place.
File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty
An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.
The Netflix way
Will the success of the pioneering DVD-rental company convince a reluctant music industry to embrace its own subscription strategy?
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