Best of Salon

In honor of our 10th anniversary this month, Salon is scouring our archives for the best stories we've published. Every day for 10 days, we will be highlighting one year's worth of memorable pieces.
Best of Salon: 1995-1996 From hackers and the giant squid to George Sanders and O.J. Simpson, a potpourri of memorable pieces from our first year. - 11/05/05 -
Best of Salon: 1997 Vampires! Women's ways of bullying! Sleazy tricks of pornmeisters! Cintra at the Kentucky Derby! A wild ride through Salon's 1997 archives.
Best of Salon: 1998 From Ken Starr and Henry Hyde to fetish nation and J.Lo's butt, a look back at a tumultuous year.
Best of Salon: 1999 From Ruth Shalit's takedown of advertising follies to David Gates' "Breaking Up With the Beats" to James Poniewozik's Media Circus columns, Salon partied like it was 1999.
Best of Salon: 2000 Salon greeted the millennium by exposing the White House's prime-time propaganda campaign -- and licking doorknobs in Gary Bauer's presidential campaign headquarters.
Best of Salon: 2001 Our fearless coverage of 9/11 ranged from Ground Zero to Afghanistan. We explained "Mulholland Drive," exposed Silicon Valley and asked if Bush was a chimp.
Best of Salon: 2002 We introduced the metrosexual and warned of the dangers of touch-screen voting. Plus: 40 must-see movies, and the kitschification of 9/11
Best of Salon: 2003 The Iraq war begins: Phillip Robertson crosses the Tigris by raft, Jen Banbury reports on Abu Ghraib, and Michelle Goldberg covers the new antiwar movement.
Best of Salon: 2004 Gay couples tie the knot in San Francisco, we're still at war in Iraq, and George W. Bush is reelected.