A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Let My People Go
It's a crisis that mission agencies hope never to face and a story they'd rather not have to tell.
The "cold" approach
With more than 4,000 missionaries across the globe, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention could fill the ro...
We shall overturn
With the support of MLK's niece, citizens of Maine reject gay civil rights and exercise their "people's veto"
But first say please
California initiative would require unions to get members' OK before using their money for politics
Thorn in the flesh
Confident he can tell the truth and hold public office, Gov.
Notebook
Culture
Culture
A postmodern scandal
President Clinton, according to psychologist Robert Jay Lifton, is the nation's first postmodern president. Not bound by objective standards of truth, Mr. Clinton is able to continually reinvent h...
Music
Music: Better than pablum
Except for the Windham Hill pianist, each of this month's acts openly acknowledges Christ, suggesting that contracts with major labels or their subsidiaries are not necessarily pacts with the devi...
Books
Books: English as 2nd language
William F. Buckley's Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith sounds like a wonderful book, and I hope to read it someday. But the volume on bookstore shelves today, bearing this title, is...
Movies & TV
Film: Wrong movie, Mr. Clinton
The evening before giving the State of the Union address three weeks ago, Bill Clinton sat through a White House screening of The Apostle, a new movie directed, produced, written by, and starring ...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Truth deficit Standing in front of a huge mock-up of a Social Security card at Georgetown University, President Clinton last week field-tested one of the administration's top budget themes ...
Quotables
Quotables
No more fast-food work for me-I've got a career in science! Motto of Bob Helms's newsletter Guinea Pig Zero. After losing his job a year ago, the 40-year-old man became a professional guine...
The Buzz
The Buzz
'50s, '60s, '70s, or '90s? Retro is the way everyone is doomed to repeat the past whether they learned from it or not. It lets yesterday's chart-toppers get back on the floor for one more d...