Politics

Pander bear In his big, warm-and-fuzzy debut to the nation, Joseph Lieberman did a great impression of a Republican impersonating a Democrat
By Alicia Montgomery

The cops become the story More civil than disobedient, the marches against police brutality were as scripted as the action inside the Staples Center
By Anthony York

Closing the piety gap With Joseph Lieberman, the Democrats have someone who can take God back from the right. But do we really need more moralizing about private issues in public life?
By James Traub

The Hollywood money machine Even as their platform calls for an end to special interests, Democratic Party leaders happily imbibe free drinks from fat-cat corporate donors at swank parties
By Jake Tapper

The color purple Can violet-tinted goddess-worshipping power beads bring Al Gore the success he so craves?
By Jake Tapper

Relying on God Convergence of the week: The words of vice-presidential pick Joseph Lieberman and Gamil Batouti, copilot of EgyptAir Flight 990
By Lawrence Weschler

Salon's daily audio clip

Protesters amass at LAPD headquarters Anthony York reports from the front lines of the DNC protests

Sex

Turn-on Clinton exited as he entered: Confident, cocky and coming on to all of us
By David Thomson

Naked World Formula One race in Hungary to offer prostitution to fans
By Jack Boulware

Business

MasterCard vs. Ralph Nader Could a consumer advocate's bid for the presidency be derailed by a credit card company?
By Kaitlin Quistgaard

Hola, Domino's calling The pizza chain is a huge hit among rich Venezuelans, who can't get enough "corte Chicago" pies delivered to their doors -- rápido
By Sandra Hernandez

News

Venezuelan prez defies U.S. By befriending U.S. enemies like Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez risks alienating his troubled country's biggest trading partner
By David A. Wernick

Health

Slipping a mickey Santa Barbara grapples with a GHB date-rape case that has women scared and police on edge
By Stephen Lemons

Technology

To hell with hubris Can't dying dot-coms take some of the new economy arrogance with them?
By Damien Cave

Technology Log: Democracy for sale Bid for the vote of one U.S. citizen, now on eBay!
By Katharine Mieszkowski

Mothers Who Think

The master of kiddie goth Bestselling storyteller Lemony Snicket speaks about his macabre novels, in which terrible things happen to small children
By Amy Benfer

Unconventional wisdom Why Joe Lieberman is good for poor black children and parents
By E.M. Brown

Books

Better red than brain-dead Why did socialism fail in the United States -- and whose loss is it, anyway?
By John Leonard

"Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages" The number of living languages is shrinking fast -- but so what?
By Gavin McNett

People

Nothing Personal Jennifer Lopez embraces bisexual unibrow chic. Plus: Liam Gallagher's hairy butt!
By Amy Reiter

James Lovelock, Gaia's grand old man The scientist who first theorized that our planet is a biological organism discusses life on Earth and the possibilities for its future
By Lawrence E. Joseph

Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Your horoscope for this week

Arts & Entertainment

Alec Guinness, 1914-2000 An appreciation of Obi-Wan Kenobi -- and the most indelible poseur in literature
By Michael Sragow

"Autumn in New York" So what if Winona Ryder is 28 and Richard Gere is 50? These two couldn't generate sparks in a flint mine
By Charles Taylor

The DVD Room: "Psycho" Hitchcock's creepy thriller about sex. Plus: How a low-budget shocker became a fabulously profitable classic
By Bill Wyman

The good life and the wildlife The resort city of Naples, Fla., offers visitors a bit of both
By Burt Wolf

Blue Glow Al Gore at center stage; Ali and Frazier battle again in HBO documentary
By Joyce Millman