A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
The House Bulldog
The rap on the Senate hearings into fundraising abuses by the Clinton reelection team is that the laborious, colorless investigation is boring.
Burton's five most wanted
Following the money
A 50-year dance with Washington's wolves
Surveying the damage a half-century of "help" from the welfare system has visited upon a Native American people
LIFEWATCH
Personnel is policy House Speaker Newt Gingrich has spent a lot of time lately trying to convince conservative Republicans that h...
Don't sweat it
Operation Restore Democracy seems to be turning Haiti into the Western Hemisphere's biggest welfare recipient
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Culture Notes
The next fashionable perversion Now that homosexuality is becoming socially acceptable to the pop culture,new forms of perverse sexuality must come to the surface to provide the tang of for...
Music
Music: The British Elvis lives
In January the Queen of England knighted Paul McCartney. In September Amy Grant, the former queen of contemporary-Christian music, will release her latest pop album. What most Americans don't real...
Books
Books: Love and marriage
Alas, the family is still under siege in American society and life. Despite all that has been said and written over the past two decades, despite all the seminars, conferences, video series, refor...
Books
Beltway Books: Inside the power plays
The game of politics has long been played for keeps, no less so in America than in other nations. In Whatever It Takes, journalist Elizabeth Drew chronicles what was probably the most important el...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Labor pains Four days after jubilantly claiming victory in the Teamsters union's 15-day strike against UPS, top Teamster Ron Carey found himself out of a job. A federal election overseer nu...
Quotables
Quotables
"It's an abomination." -STEVE FORBES, magazine publisher and 1996 presidential candidate, criticizing the Clinton-Congress budget deal. Mr. Forbes denounced the pact at a key GOP conference...