A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Mrs. Taylor's neighborhood
Even as local governments struggle to innovate their public assistance--from welfare reform to Medicare to education-cities such as Milwaukee are increasingly looking to the private sector for answers
The El Niño harvest
Weather disturbance is more than an inconvenience; it places at risk a way of life in Ecuador
Renewing Ecuadorian compassion
The motorboat loaded with foodstuffs slows, and Quito pastor Hugo Palacios shouts to a flood victim to come ashore. "We bring the...
Congressman "No"
A "little-L" libertarian, Ron Paul is almost always alone voting against "big-G" government
Notebook
Culture
Books
Books: A theory of everything
George Roche, the thoughtful president of Hillsdale College, says it takes just two people to befuddle the theory of evolution: the man who leaps from a bridge to commit suicide, and the man who l...
Books
Books: Down the tunnel of light
I have this hazy memory from the age of about seven of floating near the ceiling of my bedroom. Looking down, I saw myself sprawled among the covers, dozing as the early morning summer sunshine st...
Culture
The new Pharisees
The Game of Life is a Milton Bradley board game that has kept its popularity for decades. Children, preoccupied as they often are about growing up, move their little plastic stationwagons along th...
Culture
Obituary of worldviews
Post-Postmodernism Jean-Francois Lyotard, who helped build the postmodernist movement out of the Paris Riots of 1968, died last month. This French philosopher wrote the book on postmodernism-li...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Changing the subject First, the president and his defenders were shocked, shocked about the invasion of Webster Hubbell's privacy after tapes of his conversations on a prison phone marked "...
Quotables
Quotables
Payoff Clinton. Notation by Susan McDougal on an August 1983 check for $5,081.82 that she signed over to Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. President Clinton denied under oath that he cau...