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Legal high
Listen to comedian Bill Hicks rant about legalizing pot for a better world and putting an end to the war on drugs.
"The Stardust Lounge"
Deborah Digges reads from her new book, a chronicle of her son's difficult adolescence and her own efforts to understand, protect and continue loving him.
"In a Sunburned Country"
Bill Bryson goes Down Under and finds an underdiscovered country with the friendliest inhabitants and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife on the planet.
"A Million Bubbles"
Hear a live recording of David Sedaris reading a previously unpublished story from his new audiobook "Me Talk Pretty One Day."
Where the "Girls" are
A new book of essays, interviews and photographs reveals the astonishing scope of girls' lives today.
"Being Digital"
The founding director of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, explains how computer sytems can be designed to understand us better, not the reverse.
"Music Is My Bag"
Meghan Daum, an oboist turned writer, looks back at the peculiar subculture of music school in this essay from her collection "My Misspent Youth."
"Naked"
David Sedaris describes a humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plague of Tics," from his bestselling essay collection.
The Roger Clinton Experience
At a "Bill Clinton for President" benefit in San Francisco in August 1992, Bill's brother gave the performance of his life in the hopes of changing the country.
Mixed message
DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid) runs a sound check on your earlobes in his frequency-testing cut-and-paste extravaganza "Metro Mix."
Ed Harris and his labor of love
The actor and director talks about his latest film, on the life of painter Jackson Pollock.
Report from ground zero
Journalist Stephan Cox speaks with Salon's Middle East correspondent, Flore de Prineuf, about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Hey, chinbeard! Hang up and ride
Fed up with cellphone users on public transit, a lone stranger fights back.
A swash of restrictions
Stephan Cox speaks with NARAL's Erica Pelletreau about why President Bush reinstated the abortion "gag rule," what other restrictions to expect and why Roe vs. Wade will still stand four years from now.
Stiller crazy after all these years
Jerry Stiller, well known for his role as Frank Costanza on "Seinfeld," tells how he met his wife, playwright Anne Meara, in 1953.
Monkey business
In "My Life With the Chimpanzees" Jane Goodall recalls a childhood experience that inspired her interest in the wild kingdom.
Obsessed!
Peter L. Bernstein traces the history of gold from alchemy to Fort Knox and beyond, and tells the stories of the greedy and the vain who could not resist its lure.
Make policy, not war
Robert Housman, former U.S. assistant director of strategic planning, and Dave Fratello, author of California's treatment-not-jail initiative, discuss the war on drugs.
Don't blame the geeks
Scientist Jonathan Koomey says Internet companies are not responsible for California's energy crisis.
The castaway speaks
Listen to behind-the-scene excerpts of Michael Sragow's interview with Tom Hanks.
"I Have a Dream"
Hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963 at the March on Washington.
Words and wars
The late poet Stephen Spender speaks with Dick Cavett about poetry and politics in a Paris Review interview.
When we're going to be there
In Chris Colin's essay from "Salon.com's Wanderlust" he takes his future children on a future drive, careful to micromanage their impressions along the way.
England's decadent delights
In Douglas Cruickshank's essay from "Salon.com's Wanderlust," he samples the good life with Mariah Carey, clay pigeons and single malt scotches at a luxurious English castle hotel.
Feminism isn't dead
Two activists read from their new book, "Manifesta," and imagine what it would be like if the women's movement had never happened.
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