A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
One baby gained a home last month, but hundreds of thousands more languish in foster care, bouncing from one temporary house to another. A new federal law will help such kids, but changes in state law, courtroom procedures, and societal attitudes are...
Cultural danger signs
Kids killing kids: Are we even paying attention?
To execute or not?
Pakistan faces that question on two fronts: its nuclear program and ongoing persecution of Christians
Settling a score?
Joyful Pakistanis shot their guns in the air, celebrating the news last week that their country had successfully detonated five nuclear ...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Return of Godless-zilla
I stomp New York Back in 1954, the early days of the Cold War unleashed an unexpected threat on mankind, or at least on Tokyo. Every few years, Godzilla would stomp around, knocking over buildi...
Culture
Fictionalizing the truth
If, as contemporary thinkers and educators are saying, truth is something we "construct," rather than discover from the outside, there is really no difference between reality and imaginative ficti...
Culture
Grand young opera
Opera's hottest property these days comes in the form of a pair of newlyweds performing Gounod's Romeo and Juliet together. They are not only young and talented, they even look like one would imag...
Books
Books: Baseball philosopher
The Scottish writer George MacDonald once said that book critics should learn from God's example: They should be easy to please, but hard to satisfy. A Great and Glorious Game, a collection of bas...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
The 'N' word The word is out. President Clinton has carefully tried to avoid drawing parallels between his administration's misdeeds and those that brought down the Nixon White House. Too l...
Quotables
Quotables
I must tell you that there is some truth in the bumper sticker the NRA has out that says, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' House minority leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), on 15...