Currently in Salon

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  Facebook, the mean girls and me
  At 34 years old, I finally feel like a popular seventh-grader. How sad is that?
  By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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  On "The Road" with John Hillcoat
  The Aussie director talks about Viggo Mortensen, Coke, cannibalism and adapting Cormac McCarthy's bleak parable
  By Andrew O'Hehir
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  Polanski moves from jail to ski chalet
  The rapist director is granted bail, and one of his most vocal apologists celebrates
  Kate Harding
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  Swiss Islamophobia betrays Enlightenment ideals
  By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world
  By Juan Cole
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  On housing crisis, Wall Street feels no shame
  While Americans suffer, glutted banks refuse to renegotiate mortgages or scale back bonuses
  By Robert Reich
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  Ruth Reichl has better salsa
  The former Gourmet editor lets us poke around in her refrigerator
  By Francis Lam
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  My second novel was rejected and I'm in despair
  I spent five years writing this, and now my editor's ditched me!
  By Cary Tennis
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  "Mentalist," "Lie to Me": The truth hurts
  Simon Baker and Tim Roth are charismatic and coy as TV mind readers, but the cheese is still spread a little thick
  By Heather Havrilesky
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  Stalk of shame
  Don't let that unused celery wither and yellow in your fridge. Show it a little respect for delicious results
  by Francis Lam
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  How dare you criticize wasteful defense spending!
  So you think it's only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy? Think again
  By David Sirota