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A country up for grabs

Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest

Facing the algorithms

As police turn to facial recognition technology to identify suspects and solve cases, critics worry about privacy and false accusations

To police or not to police?

In Los Angeles, “defunding the police” led to disbanding a unit specially designed to help with homelessness

Voter migration

Donald Trump made gains among some Hispanic voters in 2020. Will the GOP continue the trend?

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Answer to prayer?

Does the making of The Prince of Egypt show that Hollywood and evangelicals can all just get along?

Bill's Baptist buddies

Religious-left activists, stopped within a denomination, set their sights even higher

What players value most

For some athletes, stats can't measure what really matters

An innocent abroad

Europeans laugh at Americans, but it could be worse

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Anyone with guts? In your article about third-party candidates, "Autumn of their contentment" (Oct. 10), you state that the Clinton scandal has united conservatives under the Republican ban...

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Culture

Only shades of gray

Thinking Leave it to beaver is a horror show Are old TV sitcoms oppressive and reactionary? They are, according to an inverted Truman Show of a movie called Pleasantville (New Line Cinema, rated P...

Books

Books: Economics for comics

Eat the Rich is, like most of conservative humorist P. J. O'Rourke's other books, actually informative in small and odd ways. This latest, which is starting to show up on bestseller lists, comes v...

Books

Books: A formerly good writer

Kurt Vonnegut, as everyone knows, is one of our greatest living American authors. A car salesman before making it as a writer, he is the author of 13 previous novels. His classic WWII story, Slaug...

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This Week

"Pro-life" violence: Here we go again When abortionist Barnett Slepian was murdered by a vigilante who shot a bullet through his kitchen window, pro-choicers mourned his death. So did thoug...

Quotables

To go from laying tile on my knees in Las Vegas and being humbled to today-being on Monday Night Football, coming into Green Bay and beating a team that doesn't lose at home and has the No. 1 defe...