Currently in Salon

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  Obama: "When the system fails, it is my responsibility"
  The president delivers a forceful speech on the results of a security review
  Alex Koppelman
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  GOP Senate tsunami? Not yet
  Some recent polls in competitive Senate races -- by a GOP-friendly pollster -- belie a relentless Republican trend
  By Joe Conason
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  "Youth in Revolt": Michael Cera, sex god?
  The eternally endearing nerd plays a convincing cad in this offbeat, good-natured teen comedy
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  Democrats aren't dead yet
  Tuesday's retirement news may look worse than it really is for this year's elections
  Mike Madden
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  The "pro-life" parable
  Former pro-choicer Abby Johnson says an abortion caused her conversion. Records say it never happened
  Tracy Clark-Flory
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  McCain: Standing in Obama's way every day
  The president's 2008 rival boasts of fighting him in 2010 as he kicks off his Senate reelection campaign
  Mike Madden
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  Lady Gaga shakes it for Polaroid
  The pop singer finally has something to fall back on
  Mary Elizabeth Williams
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  "Avatar" as a Chinese metaphor
  Neocons, druggie jungle pantheists, Shanghai movie fans --James Cameron's film has something for everyone
  Andrew Leonard
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  Behind the food truck divide
  A new gourmet parking lot captures the media's attention -- but where does it leave traditional vendors?
  By Thomas Rogers
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  Lucky pork and sauerkraut
  A recipe that saved the author's life, not from starvation, but from his own stupidity
  By Ian Knauer