Currently in Salon

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  "Broken Embraces" and the ties that bind
  Pedro Almodóvar gives us a gorgeous melodramatic fantasy about what it means to live for movies
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  "Get your pit bull on!"
  Palin fans left their hunting camps and donned tea party gear to greet sister Sarah from Alaska and jeer the media
  By Edward McClelland
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  A letter to readers
  On my current condition: Definitely treatable, definitely uncertain
  By Cary Tennis
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  Scientists baffled by global warming's time-out
  Temperatures haven't risen this decade, as climatologists expected. Is it sunspots? Ocean currents? Secret volcano?
  By Gerald Traufetter
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  Paying off Afghanistan's warlords
  Favoritism and corruption are the essence of the government the U.S. has helped "reconstruct" since 2001
  By Pratap Chatterjee
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  And the (antisocial) word of the year is ...
  The Oxford American Dictionary just isn't that into you
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  "Twilight" of our youth
  It isn't just a tween phenomenon. Women in their 30s and beyond are addicted to Stephenie Meyer's vampire saga, too
  By Sarah Hepola
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  The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American
  Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the other way around?
  By Michael Lind
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  And may your first child be a feminine child
  People did victory laps when my wife gave birth to a boy. Why was the reaction to our next baby, a girl, so cold?
  By Aaron Traister
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  Huffington Post's LIVE! NUDE! GIRLS!
  The site's skeezy "Celebrity Skin" page touts nipples, scandal -- and did we mention nipples?
  Mary Elizabeth Williams