Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in "This Common Secret," is the war on reproductive rights.
By Eryn Loeb Jan 22, 2008
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"Irrational Exuberance" author Robert Shiller predicted both the dot-com bust and the housing
market collapse -- and now his new book offers fixes for America's bubble mentality.
By Andrew Leonard
August 21, 2008
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Why are publishers slapping chick-lit-style covers on books written by women, whether they fit the genre or not?
By Logan Scherer
July 30, 2008
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Global warming, recession, war, healthcare, the energy crisis: A new book argues that Barack Obama has an answer for everything.
By Andrew Leonard
July 29, 2008
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"Farewell, My Subaru" is a low-carbon "Odyssey," dripping with wry humor and fast food grease biofuel.
By Andrew Leonard
July 1, 2008
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Kevin Phillips' newest excoriation of the state of the union, "Bad Money," is the right book for the right time.
By Andrew Leonard
April 14, 2008
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Americans' first source in news is overrun by marketing videos.
By Farhad Manjoo
March 19, 2008
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On hot-button issues -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Mac-PC divide -- we're quick to see bias in even the most objective news.
By Farhad Manjoo
March 18, 2008
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Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.
By Farhad Manjoo
March 17, 2008
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Deadspin editor Will Leitch's new book gives a foam middle finger to ESPN and other sporting powers that be.
By King Kaufman
January 25, 2008
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Is that a hard drive in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
By Farhad Manjoo
November 29, 2007
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Legal sage Cass Sunstein says democracy is the first casualty of political discourse in the digital age.
By Ben Van Heuvelen
November 7, 2007
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Who will survive "The Deathly Hallows"? Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Steve Almond -- and Stephen Amidon's children -- join Salon staff and place their bets.
By Thomas Rogers and Matthew Fishbane
July 6, 2007
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The godfather of the New Age led a secretive group of devoted followers in the last decade of his life. His closest "witches" remain missing, and former insiders, offering new details, believe the women took their own lives.
By Robert Marshall
April 12, 2007
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Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong says the afterlife is a "red herring," hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God.
By Steve Paulson
May 30, 2006
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February 24, 2004
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Growing up, all the kids -- black and white -- exiled me for being an obsessive reader. This year, I finally found three books that capture the black nerd experience.
By Adrienne Crew
June 27, 2003
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By the Associated Press
August 20, 2002
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Stylish new Wodehouse editions and more of our favorite books.
April 22, 2002
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The long-lost novel that inspired Jimmy Breslin to write "The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez."
By Allen Barra
March 14, 2002
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He was prepared to shed blood to defend liberty. What separates American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from thousands of other gun-worshiping zealots?
By Gary Kamiya
April 7, 2001
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Forget the sketchy allegations of
wife-beating. Anthony Summers' new
book makes clear that Richard Nixon's
real crimes were against his country.
By Charles Taylor
September 1, 2000
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By STEVE GUTTERMAN
July 20, 2000
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A historian unearths a bizarre-but-true story of New York nuns, Irish Catholic orphans, their Mexican-American would-be parents and a white Protestant lynch mob.
By Debra Dickerson
December 13, 1999
The abortion doctor
Speculation nation
Judging a book by its (pink) cover
Obamanomics to the rescue
Doug Fine's excellent nanny goat adventure
The decline and fall of the American empire of debt
How local TV embraced fake news
Why Apple fans hate tech reporters
How photos support your own "reality"
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
"Love and Sex With Robots"
The Internet is making us stupid
Harry Potter and the prediction pool
The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda
Going beyond God
Geek reads
The patriot
The traitor
Glenn Greenwald
War Room