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Founded in July 1995 by David Talbot, Salon combines original investigative stories, breaking news, provocative personal essays and highly respected criticism along with popular staff-written blogs about politics, technology and culture.

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Two new Hüsker Dü books as complicated and difficult as the band itself

By Patrick Smith | 12/02/11
I was the Hüsker Dü's biggest fan, and even I'm not sure whom these two rock histories were written for.
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The shadow of suspicion falls in the Mall of America

By G.W. Schulz, Daniel Zwerdling and Andrew Becker | 09/07/11
Visitors who have done nothing wrong are winding up identified in counterterrorism reports.
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The market meltdown and the hopeless politics of 2011

By Steve Kornacki | 08/09/11
The good news about the carnage on Wall Street is that we pretty much know what's causing it. The bad news is that we may be powerless to stop it.
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Mondale on Obama, and how he could've beaten Reagan

By Steve Kornacki | 10/26/10
Salon's Steve Kornacki asks Walter Mondale about the political parallels between '82 and '10, the ways in which the '82 recession was different, and what it was like to run against President Ronald Reagan at the peak of his popularity.
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Tim Pawlenty takes his 'hot wife,' bland adequacy to Iowa

By Alex Pareene | 08/02/10
What message is Pawlenty bringing to Iowa? He is your candidate — if there is some reason you cannot bring yourself to support Romney, or Huckabee, or Palin.
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Why don't women buy at Best Buy? The chain sets out to answer the question -- and it's paying off

By Anna Clark | 06/17/10
Nearly 50 years after its founding, it has only recently occurred to Best Buy that maybe talking to women and girls will help them understand why females aren't coming through their doors.