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  • They're (formerly) grrrrreat!

    At the home for retired advertising icons, not everyone's happy to see the Geico Cavemen hit the big time.
    By King Kaufman September 13, 2007

  • No excuses for survivors of "unplanned sexual events"

    Baptists for Brownback get their Swift on.
    By Lynn Harris July 25, 2007

  • "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith

    From the author of "White Teeth" and "The Autograph Man" comes an extraordinary academic comic novel in the tradition of "Howards End" that bursts with imagination.
    By Laura Miller October 1, 2005

  • More gay cartoon characters revealed!

    Crazed right-wing moralists, take note: Before SpongeBob, there was Snagglepuss ... and Huckleberry Hound ... and even Popeye.
    By Liz Larocca February 5, 2005

  • Word History: NADER

    Nader (NAY-dur) n. Low point, as of a celestial body that has declined from an exalted height.
    By Evan Eisenberg October 12, 2004

  • "He forgot Poland, Jim Bob! And Great Britain is two words!"

    The Bush/Kerry debate in translation.
    By Joyce McGreevy October 1, 2004

  • "Let's turn a corner, any corner"

    An exclusive look at George W. Bush's nomination speech.
    By Joyce McGreevy August 27, 2004

  • Why won't DUMB work for Bush?

    Dubya strategists puzzled as campaign launch fizzles.
    By Joyce McGreevy April 19, 2004

  • Nancy News and the Mystery of the Old Crock

    What's a Bush-Cheney campaign manager doing in Iraq? Our favorite adorable teenage detective could not care less.
    By Joyce McGreevy October 6, 2003

  • G.I. George, action president!

    The forthcoming President Bush aviator doll is a satirist's dream. But are Americans still too frightened to laugh at their leader?
    By David Hyde September 12, 2003

  • Yes, Virginia, there is an insanity clause

    How else can you explain Congress getting away with something as loopy as cutting child tax credits for poor families?
    By Joyce McGreevy May 30, 2003

  • The corrections, continued

    Just a few more dateline problems, editing errors and minor examples of moral turpitude from the nation's newspaper of record.
    By Jake Tapper May 28, 2003

  • America rejoices as Bush's $217 tax cut produces mass wealth in Malaysia

    Plus more great news from your favorite show, NTR -- "Now That's Republican!"
    By Joyce McGreevy May 28, 2003

  • Even worse than unemployment: The job interview

    The process is an exercise in humiliation, and the prize for success is a nightmare -- employment by your torturers.
    By Joyce McGreevy May 20, 2003

  • "A Mighty Wind"

    Christopher Guest and his "Best in Show" cohorts are back, mocking the survivors of '60s folk music in this work of sideways comic genius.
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 16, 2003

  • TV's boldest news show

    OK, it's fictitious -- but so is our presidency. Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" pulls the pants down on the fakes and fanatics who are leading us into the future.
    By Laura Miller April 8, 2003

  • White House vs. whitehouse

    Doesn't the vice president have better things to do than trample the First Amendment rights of a Web satirist? An interview with whitehouse.org's John Wooden.
    By Farhad Manjoo March 6, 2003

  • Saddam exile options mount

    Atlantic City, Augusta National nixed, but St. Helena Island, Falklands beckon.
    By Bruce McCall February 10, 2003

  • Find man, lose him, repeat cycle

    The thinking girl's guide to serial monogamy.
    By Carina Chocano January 28, 2003

  • "Love manuals are evil"

    Salon columnist Carina Chocano talks about her new book, "Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid?"
    By Heather Havrilesky January 28, 2003

  • Been there, done Iraq

    Recently discovered "Star Trek" scripts reveal Saddam-busting strategies.
    By Barry Link September 27, 2002

  • FilthyFlicks

    Correcting the sin of omission, this company adds extra sex, nudity, profanity or extreme violence to our favorite screen gems.
    By Cary Tennis September 20, 2002

  • Must-see TV

    Al-Jazeera joins the fall season free-for-all with its own lineup of potential hit shows.
    By Ashwini K. Chhabra September 13, 2002

  • I see London, I see France

    Beauty queens abdicate amid charges of accidental nudity and wanton naughtiness.
    By Roger Bruhn August 9, 2002

  • My First Monumental Reference Book

    Pestilently fecund children's publishing synergies have spawned a squirming, mewling, instinctively sucking, obliviously pooping litter of new celebrities. Awww. Aren't they sweet!
    By Kevin Baker June 28, 2002
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