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SalonToday in Salon: Wednesday June 11, 2008

Strange but true

Composer Stew bares all about his raucous Broadway hit "Passing Strange" -- and why his song "We Just Had Sex" won't be on TV on Tony night

By James Hannaham
Joan WalshJoan Walsh
Old McDonald had a pharm
And genetically modified his goats and chickens to produce drugs for humans. But hold on. Should we be doing this to animals?
By Elizabeth Svoboda
Not quite Americans
Sexual assault, enslavement, no medical care -- Peter Orner, author of an oral history of illegal immigrants, discusses the nightmares experienced by this vulnerable population.
By Whitney Joiner
Obama's best veep choice
Here's a hint: She's not Hillary! Plus: Talk radio's paranoid delusions and a Brazilian diva Madonna could aspire to.
By Camille Paglia
Beyond the MultiplexBeyond the Multiplex
My Paulina, my country
During the making of a film about my exile from Chile, I finally met the anonymous woman who saved my life during Pinochet's murderous reign.
By Ariel Dorfman
How the World WorksHow the World Works
I went to L.A. to work in film and just got yelled at
Should I convert to Judaism, go backpacking in Thailand, or move back to Florida near my parents?
By Cary Tennis
He's a young black guy, and that's a problem for some folks
But Barack Obama has gifts that transcend race and his own slim résumé.
By Garrison Keillor
The K Chronicles
A shot for hepatitis B minutes after birth? (We're deciding on vaccines for the baby.)
By Keith Knight
Video DogVideo Dog
War RoomWar Room
BroadsheetBroadsheet
MachinistMachinist
The Cedric Benson Index
The Chicago Bears waive the underachieving running back after his second alcohol arrest in five weeks.
King Kaufman
Glenn GreenwaldGlenn Greenwald
Relax, liberals. You've already won
No matter who prevails at the ballot box in November, John McCain or Barack Obama, the four-decade-long conservative counterrevolution is over.
By Michael Lind
The mother-daughter wars
Rebecca Walker's denunciation of feminism and her mother Alice Walker has a lot to teach us about the choices women make and the daughters who judge them.
By Phyllis Chesler
The mix master
Barack Obama's candidacy spells the end of the one-drop rule and the beginning of a painful but necessary exploration of the real meaning of race in America.
By Gary Kamiya
The insanity inside Guantánamo
A new report reveals that a number of prisoners -- even some long ago cleared to leave -- are spiraling into hallucinations, despair and suicide.
By Jennifer Daskal and Stacy Sullivan
Blog ReportThe Blog Report
Your guide to the political blogosphere – left, right and everywhere.
WiresWires
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