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Hacking into Freedom City: "The Gulag Archipelago" meets "Counter-Strike" in China. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Deliver milk powder.; Andrew Leonard Mar 6, 2008
John F. Kennedy, plagiarist?: If Barack Obama borrowed from Deval Patrick, so what? Creative "borrowing" is part of speechwriting, as Kennedy knew, and as I learned while working for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.; By Jerome Doolittle Feb 20, 2008
The qualms before the storm: How might Clinton and Obama handle the Oval Office? On the eve of Super Tuesday, what we still don't know could come back to haunt us.; By Walter Shapiro Feb 4, 2008
This is not Romney's Kennedy moment: Mitt Romney is caught between Mormonism and a hard place -- the fundamentalist Christian base of the modern GOP. And it's partly his own fault.; By Andrew O'Hehir Dec 6, 2007
Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century: His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.; By Sidney Blumenthal Oct 18, 2007
Lady Bird Johnson dead at 94: The former first lady died Wednesday afternoon.; Alex Koppelman Jul 11, 2007
American goodwill, in shackles: How Bush hardliners and even mainstream pundits have hogtied one of our greatest potential strengths in the war on terrorism.; By P.W. Singer Jun 26, 2007
Better to be Hamlet than President George: Doubt is a virtue, JFK told students 45 years ago. Without it we have the tragic bluster and empty optimism of political culture today.; By Peter Birkenhead Jun 11, 2007
History according to Vanity Fair: Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis -- set the record straight on JFK.; David Talbot May 14, 2007
The wisdom of Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis: The Kennedy speechwriter, and the Republican star, set the record straight in Vanity Fair.; David Talbot May 14, 2007
Rome on the Potomac: Real-life Washington could be just as sinister and treacherous as the HBO series set in the ancient imperial capital.; David Talbot May 3, 2007
The Kennedy legacy vs. the Bush legacy: Cuba could easily have become the Iraq of its day. But fortunately JFK was no George W.; David Talbot May 2, 2007
Still searching for JFK: When presidential candidates posture as the new JFK, do they realize he was more a dove than a hawk?; David Talbot May 2, 2007
"Brothers": The exclusive story of Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination. From the new book by Salon's founder and former editor in chief.; By David Talbot May 2, 2007
Real inconvenient truths: Our failed political dynasties, Pelosi's stylish appeal and George W. Bush as Queen Victoria. Plus: The hot air about global warming.; By Camille Paglia Apr 11, 2007
New JFK film: Haunting new footage of JFK and Jackie, moments moments before chaos.; By Kerry Lauerman Feb 20, 2007
Too much Gore: Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.; By Allen Barra Jan 3, 2007
The Galbraith I knew: His biographer recalls how the late economist warned JFK about Vietnam -- and faulted conservative policies for worsening inequality in America.; By Richard Parker May 1, 2006
The mafia, the coup and the murder: The authors respond to David Talbot's review of "Ultimate Sacrifice."; By Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann Dec 7, 2005
Case closed?: A new book about the JFK assassination claims to finally solve the mystery.; By David Talbot Dec 1, 2005
"Ultimate Sacrifice": An excerpt: In a blockbuster story unrevealed until now, the mob tried to kill Kennedy just days before he was gunned down in Dallas.; By Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann Dec 1, 2005
The top five books on the Kennedy assassination: An expert's guide through the perplexing thicket of JFK assassination books.; By David Talbot Dec 1, 2005
Holy warriors: Cardinal Ratzinger handed Bush the presidency by tipping the Catholic vote. Can American democracy survive their shared medieval vision?; By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 21, 2005
Why we keep killing JFK: The controversial video game "JFK Reloaded" plays to our inner sociopath. But it also shows how government scandals fester in the national psyche until the truth comes out.; By Jefferson Morley Nov 30, 2004
Not just a socialite, but a gritty survivor: Susan Mary Alsop, who died last month, faced a personal crisis when the KGB tried to smear her influential columnist husband, Joseph. A friend recalls her courage in the face of that ordeal.; By Edwin M. Yoder Jr. Sep 28, 2004

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