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I peed at my desk in third grade and now I'm afraid to sing: I know I am different. I know I go for broke. What if my gift is rejected?; By Cary Tennis Nov 7, 2007
The deep delicious South: John T. Edge, America's bard of Southern food, talks about Kool-Aid pickles, eating with the KKK, and how okra might be the ultimate tool of integration.; By Adam Roberts Jul 17, 2007
My Southern grandmother is dying, and I don't want to go back: I finally escaped the deadly web of small-town Southern life. But it keeps pulling on me!; By Cary Tennis Jul 13, 2007
The spring blues: On an April day in Georgia, not even fried chicken and the scent of magnolia can make you forget the kids we're sending to die in a pointless war.; By Garrison Keillor May 2, 2007
I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?: Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted.; By Cary Tennis Apr 16, 2007
Do Democrats need the South?: The party is doing fine, winning the Northeast, the West and the Midwest. So why is James Carville still pushing a Southern strategy?; By Thomas F. Schaller Nov 14, 2006
Terms of endearment: Why do Southern folks elect regressive, warmongering politicians but still call you "sunshine" when they serve your coffee?; By Garrison Keillor Oct 18, 2006
The North goes south: In this heat, even respectable Northerners want to shoot at beer cans and sing about the good old days on the plantation.; By Garrison Keillor Aug 2, 2006
Israel's maximal option: Part of Israel's war strategy may be to push the Shiites out of Lebanon's south. That would be a humanitarian disaster -- and it won't work.; By Juan Cole Jul 19, 2006
Lebanon pays for Hezbollah's sins: A report from Lebanon's south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes.; By Mitchell Prothero Jul 14, 2006
King's lost dream: The final volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial biography shows how Martin Luther King Jr. reached out to his enemies. His example should shame the shrill partisans on both sides of our poisonous cultural divide.; By Charles Taylor Feb 1, 2006
John Edwards' Southern strategy: Following the progressive tradition of Andrew Jackson, the North Carolina senator will challenge the GOP's divisive appeal.; By Sidney Blumenthal Jul 8, 2004
Letters: Haven't white Southerners suffered enough? Anyway, slavery is irrelevant to the plot (and geography) of "Cold Mountain." Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's review.; Jan 5, 2004
Look away, Dildo Land: The author of "Sex in the South" whoops it up at a sex-toy sales meeting in Arkansas.; By Suzi Parker Sep 11, 2003
Killing with kindness: Could Southern politeness be hindering efforts to stop the spread of AIDS?; By Michael Alvear Feb 26, 2003
The ugly truth about Republican racial politics: The GOP needs to do a lot more than rebuke Trent Lott to make up for its legacy of pandering to white bigots and suppressing the black vote.; By Joan Walsh Dec 14, 2002
Possum capital of the South: A bizarre tale of muskets, cross-dressing and marsupial hoisting in the Southern town once accused of hiding notorious fugitive Eric Rudolph.; By Randall Williams Feb 14, 2002
Samuel Mockbee: Amid architecture's increasing irrelevance, one man decided that poor people can have great houses.; By Brian Libby Aug 9, 2001
The politics of lynching: A photography exhibit on the once-common horror misses a key part of its legacy: The federal government's hands-off policies.; By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Aug 31, 2000
The Vietnam debacle: The revisionists who believe that the war was just -- and winnable -- are rewriting a history they don't understand.; By Stanley Karnow Apr 27, 2000
Sinnin' and fornicatin': Sex is so much sweeter when the preacher is damning you to Hell.; By Suzi Parker Mar 4, 2000
Family pictures: "Gummo" moviemaker Harmony Korine is not independent film's bastard child after all.; By Andy Battaglia Sep 28, 1999
The belles of St. Mary's: A Jewish writer learns about the Old South, and herself, in the most unlikely of places -- at a reunion of former debs and sorority girls.; By Jennifer Moses Dec 1, 1998
Road warrior: David Bowman talks to Lucinda Williams about her new album 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'; By David Bowman Jul 1, 1998
Howdy, Dixie! The Worn Out Slut Tour: By Susie Bright Mar 27, 1998

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