Follow the Assembly line
How one-party rule in California yielded draconian legislation against ‘conversion therapy’
Cowboy Convert
It is a few weeks before the convention in San Diego, and the House majority leader doesn't give the impression he'll be going to any special trouble to look the part of a good Republican.
Leaving the bench and taking the stand
Alabama Circuit Judge Randall Thomas quits the court to devote his energies to educating fellow Democrats about partial-birth abortion, and President Clinton's support of it
At your own risk
Missionaries feel the tension of living in a terrorist's world--and the frustration of not knowing where to turn for help
Missionary: possible
CIA director wants flexibility in using missionaries as spies
Notebook
Culture
Music
Better by a country mile
Cultural conservatives who pursue happiness by searching for signs of intelligent life in the pop-music universe sometimes have to defend the pursuit against those who consider it a frivolity. If ...
Books
Wonk! if you love policy
Good policy books by Christians are distressingly rare. Those written from a self-consciously Christian perspective all too often demonstrate a dismal understanding of economic realities and pract...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Smoke and mirrors Hand it to the White House spin doctors. On Tuesday of last week came the news that teenage drug use has gone sky high during the Clinton administration-soaring 105 percen...
Quotables
Quotables
I would've thought of something more original. Whitewater felon James McDougal, who is cooperating with Whitewater prosecutors, denying a report that he sees himself as "Bill Clinton's 'Bru...