Currently in Salon

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  Senate healthcare bill: Time to kill it?
  Some progressives say that without a public option, it is. Others on the left say any progress is better than none
  Thomas Schaller
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  2009: The year in crazy!
  Help Salon count down the 10 nuttiest newsmakers in the last 12 months, and pick our No. 1
  Joan Walsh
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  Your daily Tiger Woods
  A call to Child Protective Services and a wife without a ring
  By Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  Hugs and kisses and cooking-for-you wishes
  Who do you want to celebrate the holidays with? Plus: Last week's holiday host drink winners
  By Francis Lam
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  Dear nobodies
  A congressman writes to his constituents: "Thank God for gerrymandering"
  By Michael Lind
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  This Modern World
  Conservative Jones, boy detective, tackles the mystery of healthcare reform
  By Tom Tomorrow
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  Films of the decade: "Synecdoche, New York"
  Charlie Kaufman's directing debut mixes devastating psychodrama and 21st-century social portraiture
  Andrew Grant
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  Films of the decade: "Platform"
  Jia Zhangke made his reputation with this joyful, crushing account of China in the '80s, lived at street level
  Dennis Lim
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  Films of the decade: "Inland Empire"
  David Lynch's blend of beauty, dread and sinister jokes -- and Laura Dern's unjustly ignored performance
  Mary Harron
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  China wins struggle for Pipelinestan
  While the U.S. is stuck in Afghanistan, China sneaks off quietly with the resource prize
  By Juan Cole