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Salon.com (often just Salon) is an Internet-based media company founded in 1995 by editor-in-chief David Talbot and several other colleagues from the San Francisco Examiner. The website is presented as an online magazine, with content updated each weekday. Its headquarters are located in downtown San Francisco, California. Salon's magazine covers a variety of topics. American politics is a major focus. It has reviews and articles about music, books, and films. It also has articles about "modern life", including relationships and sex. It covers technology, with a particular focus on the ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Large audience (500K-1M) (English)
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International
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Left
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Salon Media Group | Managers: David Talbot, Elizabeth Hambrecht, Joan Walsh
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Former Marine captain resigns in protest of Afghanistan war
(Blog Post) Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain with combat experience in Iraq, resigned last month from his position with the Foreign Service, where he was the the senior U.S. civilian ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Is the tide turning for the public option?
None of the various healthcare reform bills kicking around Congress would order doctors to make house calls. But the White House decided that was exactly the treatment the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
I love my socialist kidney
We already have a public option. How it saved my life -- and my dad's life -- and how it may one day save yoursPosted by Jennifer Nix -
Meet the knuckleheads of the U.S. Senate
In honor of the most recent Master of the Senate, Salon presents its list of those senators who are not masters, those who have helped turn what was once the nation's foremost ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
It's time to embrace American royalty
We're obviously hungry to live with royal and aristocratic families so we should really just go ahead and formally declare it: Bush daughter Jenna Hager becomes 'Today' ...via Memeorandum -
The Washington Post's Cheney-ite defense of torture - -
(Blog Post) If anyone ever tells you that they don't understand what is meant be "stenography journalism" -- or ever insists that America is plagued by a Liberal Media -- you can show ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
Thomas Paine v. the Right's torture defenders
For anyone who believes in the basic principles of the founding, the fact that these acts of torture are illegal -- felonies -- ought to end the discussion about whether they ...via Digg -
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report
I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to "review" whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects -- that can be ...via Glenn Greenwald -
Obama wants to kill your grandma
Turning America socialist apparently wasn't enough for him -- now President Obama is trying to make old people kill themselves, callously deny important medical procedures, ...Posted by Terry Gamble -
Unasked Question about Sam Alito
Did Alito's Italian-American ethnic background cause him to cast his vote in favor of the Italian-American plaintiffs? Has anyone raised that question? Given that he himself ...via Glenn Greenwald
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Obama's foreign policy report card
Why can't the administration of President Barack Obama get the word out about its policy successes? President Obama campaigned on an ambitious platform of withdrawing from ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Fox News isn't even pretending anymore
Since Obama’s election, the cable news channel has dropped all but the barest pretense of objectivity.Fox has turned itself into what Anita Dunn recently called “the ...via Digg -
The audacity of greed: how private health insurers just blew their cover
The health-insurance industry has finally revealed itself for what it is. Background: The industry hates the idea that's emerged from the Senate Finance Committee of lowering ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
this Lieberman amendment, which is now likely to pass, undermines all of that and -- as EBay founder Pierre Omidyar put it today -- its central purpose is to "legalize ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Fighting against ourselves in Afghanistan
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The right's middle-finger spirit of contrarianism
The right is operating in the grand old irreverent American middle-finger spirit of contrarianism. The carful of kids who drive country roads busting mailboxes with baseball ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Glenn Beck and Left-Right confusion
Ultimately, Beck himself is just a histrionic intellectual mess: willing to latch onto any hysterical accusations and conspiracy theories that provide some momentary benefit, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Is the Internet melting our brains?
By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
From Blockbuster to blockbusted
(Blog Post) Blockbuster's problems, in larger part, are of its own making. The company took on too much debt, and was slow to adjust to a changing technology landscape. As the L.A. Times' ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Who are the undeserving "others" benefiting from expanded government actions?
(Blog Post) It is true that the federal government embraces redistributive policies and that middle-class income is seized in order that "someone else benefits." But so obviously, that ...via NewsRack
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