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Politics

Mueller under fire A Senate committee plans a new hearing to ask the FBI director: What went wrong?
By Anthony York

Spinsanity The Republican National Committee does a partisan hatchet job on Tom Daschle -- and has the chutzpah to call it a "job performance rating"
By Ben Fritz

News

Hell no, we won't go A young Israeli draft resister isn't challenging just the Israeli occupation, but the very foundation of this warrior nation
By Michelle Goldberg

Letters Readers react to a West Bank settler's story

People

Been there, smashed that From porcelain machine guns to plates commemorating hideous disasters, artist Charles Krafft's grimly satirical work sheds strange light on an age when terror is rattling our teacups
By Douglas Cruickshank

Nothing Personal Anna Nicole Smith stumbles into reality TV; Russia disses Lance Bass; Kournikova finds ally in porn battle
By Amy Reiter

Books

Taming the bear Strobe Talbott says Clinton deserves much credit for Russia's warming to the West -- and recalls a drunken Yeltsin calling for pizza in his underpants
By Suzy Hansen

New in paperback Why white-collar workers didn't benefit from the '90s economic boom, the true story of an American manhunt and the latest from James Ellroy

Literary Daybook A Russian master refuses the Nobel Prize after he's accused of being anti-communist

Technology & Business

Crash culture Who is to blame when a 22-year-old 747 falls from the sky?
By P. Smith

Arts & Entertainment

Double down Tom Waits released two proper records in a decade. Then he dropped two crusted with rust and riotous cacophony in one day
By Franklin Bruno

Listen hear In Salon's roundup of recent CD releases, Eminem bores, the Hives reinvent garage and Paul Westerberg charges back to mono

Letters Lesbian outrage! Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" wrap

Life

Policing gangsta fashion Are "anti-gang" dress codes in malls a way to deter crime, or just another way to prosecute patrons for shopping while black?
By Amy Benfer

From the archive Amy Benfer considers the evolution of the Nancy Drew series, whose author, Millie Benson, died Tuesday at 96
By Amy Benfer

Comics

Tom the Dancing Bug What if Tom Daschle were president in August 2001?
By Ruben Bolling

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