Today in Salon: No primaries, please, we're Democrats

Today in Salon: Wednesday January 6, 2010

No primaries, please, we're Democrats Despite a progressive outcry over healthcare, incumbent Democrats have escaped primary challenges so far By Mike Madden

Open Salon Centuries of Christian Bias Channeled Through Hume As Auto Industry Shrinks, Crash Test Dummies Fear Future If Tiger was a better Buddhist Buddhists vs. Brit: Tiger and Hume

"Lord of the Rings": WTF happened? Peter Jackson's trilogy was embraced by critics and made a kazillion bucks. So where's the decade-end love? By Andrew O'Hehir

The vocabulary of love My 15-year-old daughter talks about marrying girlfriends on Facebook. I don't get it, but maybe I'm not supposed to By Candy Schulman

What TSA needs to do now A box cutter won't bring down a plane but a bomb will. It's time for the agency to refocus its efforts By Patrick Smith

The curious history of General Tso's chicken A saga of war, rebirth, jealousy and Henry Kissinger By Francis Lam

Joan Walsh Another Steele gaffe: Honest Injun!

Glenn Greenwald Cheney's stenographers fight back Civilian trials and the so-called rule of law

How I spent my winter vacation Forget the mediocre food. It's the village life we love about a cruise -- the people watching, the eavesdropping By Garrison Keillor

Magnetic poetry offa my fridge Tequila tastes heavenly ... Drink! By Keith Knight

War Room Obama: Christmas attack due to failure to analyze intelligence Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., retiring Obama suspends transfer of detainees to Yemen Have liberals really given up on Obama? In war over GOP, right wins battle in Florida Steele not exactly firing up the troops Fox's Hume digs in deeper on Woods comments

How the World Works The decline and fall of the USA Behold the Google phone Conservative backlash against "Avatar"

Broadsheet Four husbands under Islam Prostitutes choose jail or rehab Heterosexism is hot this season Is forced sterilization ever OK?

Tablet is the new book Prediction roundup: How Steve Jobs' rumored gadget could change the way we read By Thomas Rogers

Read a book you think you'll hate in 2010 Why you should get out of your literary comfort zone this year By Laura Miller

Ada's chocolate and nut brownies She was a fabulous baker -- but then again, her adman husband (and boss) didn't leave her much choice By Lisa Stander Horel

"Sweetgrass": Spectacular elegy for a dying West A memorable documentary captures the last days of Montana sheepherding, in all its "Brokeback" mythology By Andrew O'Hehir

Jenny Sanford memoir moved up The South Carolina First Lady's infidelity tell-all will arrive on bookshelves in February BRUCE SMITH

FDA finds roaches, listeria at airline caterer After failed inspection, LSG Sky Chefs could be barred from Denver Airport DAVID KOENIG

What's ahead for the economy and politics The biggest question about 2010: Will we create jobs? By Robert Reich

Iran accepts Clinton non-deadline on nuclear talks "Deadlines are meaningless" says Iran's foreign minister NASSER KARIMI

Iraqi police seize artifacts amid smuggling fears Officials were tipped off that the statues and shards might be smuggled out of the country KATHARINE HOURELD

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