Looking to "Survivor's" Cindy and North Korea's Kim Jong-il for lessons on how to lose big, lose early and lose often
By Heather Havrilesky
Arts & Entertainment
The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq, say House Democrats
By Mark Benjamin
News
A writer and a photographer visit 30 families around the world to show us what the world eats -- and how industrial food is creeping into every corner of the globe
By Ira Boudway
Books

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The shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar wasn't just a horrible mistake. It was also a major setback for sane airport security
By Patrick Smith
Tech & Business
Jackson losing Neverland? TomKat welcoming baby boy? Plus: Paris sings and Mike Wallace has some questions for President Bush
Arts & Entertainment
Now that so many Americans -- even Democrats! -- seem to agree that we should withdraw from Iraq soon, it's time to figure out how
By Joe Conason
Opinion
Forget the scary hype: This magical movie, based on C.S. Lewis' beloved novel, is as familiar and comforting as a favorite sweater
By Stephanie Zacharek
Arts & Entertainment
Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger play two cowboys in love in this mainstream movie that is not nearly as brave as it might have been
By Stephanie Zacharek
Arts & Entertainment
Pile into the rickshaw for a slooooooow ride: This
very serious, very long, very pretty picture never
really gets moving
By Stephanie Zacharek
Arts & Entertainment
Bring on the naked girls. This movie about a wartime London topless show is all facade -- and what a facade!
By Stephanie Zacharek
Arts & Entertainment
The testimony of one bogus witness put Larry Fowlkes away on murder charges for 45 years. Will presidential hopeful Gov. Mark Warner set him free?
By Alan Berlow
News
Can Democrats criticize Bush's war while taking a united stand on what to do next?
By Mark Benjamin
News
Surprisingly, a bipartisan consensus is emerging for bringing home our exhausted troops, yet President Bush clings to his chimera of total victory. Inside the escalating debate over Iraq
By Farhad Manjoo
News
21 leading Democrats who voted for the Iraq war resolution -- and what they're saying now
Compiled by J.J. Helland and Juliana Bunim
News
The measure of patriotism, the price of war, and pleasure of the twilight, this week in Table Talk
My husband is a high-achieving alcoholic, seven years sober. Should we finally tell the kids?
By Cary Tennis
Life
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, playwright Harold Pinter condemns the Bush administration's assault on human dignity
Opinion
In a fierce critique of U.S. foreign policy, Nobel winner Harold Pinter asks, "How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer?"
By Michael Billington
Books
Nicole dumped? Brad refused? Trump a breast man? Plus: Kate Moss plays blame game.
Arts & Entertainment
A court rules that Mumia Abu-Jamal can appeal his murder conviction on three separate grounds
By Dave Lindorff
News
Condoleezza Rice's contradictory, misleading and outright false statements about the U.S. and torture have taken America's moral standing -- and her own -- to new depths
By Sidney Blumenthal
Opinion
Howard Cosell, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Crosby, Kate Millett, Timothy Leary, Geraldo Rivera and others recall their encounters with John Lennon, who died 25 years ago today
By Dana Cook
Arts & Entertainment
The most important political documentary of the decade suggests that terrorism is a dark fantasy -- and there's no such thing as al-Qaida
By Andrew O'Hehir
Arts & Entertainment
We're married, but do we have to live together?
By Cary Tennis
Life
"Intelligent Design to the Rescue" -- or, "Hey, Are Those Designer Genes?"
By Ruben Bolling
Comics
The authors respond to David Talbot's review of "Ultimate Sacrifice"
By Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
Books
Kidman's sister slips up. Spears' husband blowing through the bucks? Plus: Oprah's "Color Purple" getting big green
Arts & Entertainment
Peace activist Tom Fox has lived in Baghdad by the words of Jesus. Now he faces murder by terrorists. Was his mission in vain?
By Michelle Goldberg
News
Afraid he'd blow it, my ex-husband didn't want to coach our daughter. He changed his mind -- and we all won
By Susan Straight
With her creepy, suspenseful stories of desperate people in tight situations, Rachel Ingalls could be the next Patricia Highsmith
By Hillary Frey
Books
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