A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
The Passing of a Peacemaker
From his teenage years, King Hussein of Jordan lived a life of extreme risk.
It takes more than a village to depopulate one
Contraceptive family planning and abortion advocacy mark the kind of "relief" international relief organizations energetically import to East Africa
Relief that isn't
The already dramatic reduction in Kenya's fertility rate has not eased the daily tragedies in Nairobi's many slums. More than 100,000 pe...
The main components
The main components in the UN's population program for Kenya: Making contraceptives and training in birth control more av...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Founder's DNA revisited
Did Thomas Jefferson have a child with his slave, Sally Hemings? The centuries-old controversy seemed to have been resolved by today's genetic science, when researchers matched the DNA of Ms. Hemi...
Culture
Sinking standards
Men's magazines used to be divided into two main categories and it was easy to tell the difference. There were skin magazines and there were earnest, high-brow publications, like GQ and Esquire, t...
Music
Music: Jagged little souls
It's tempting to see Ani DiFranco and Alanis Morissette as nothing more than rock-and-roll embodiments of Angry Young Feminism, especially since both of them are, in fact, rock-and-rolling Angry Y...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
News & Review
Going cold turkey on scandal coverage Passing time after the trial Admitting you have a problem is the first and most difficult step. So go ahead-it's nothing to be ashamed of. We're all exp...
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
News & Reviews
Clinton walks Ankle bracelets & political fashion In the same month that the Senate voted not to remove Bill Clinton for lying under oath about sex, a woman who was prosecuted by the Cli...
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
News & Reviews
Clinton walks Ankle bracelets & political fashion In the same month that the Senate voted not to remove Bill Clinton for lying under oath about sex, a woman who was prosecuted by the Cli...
Quotables
Quotables
Unless you are going to kill people on the air ... there comes a point when you have oversaturated yourself. Oprah Winfrey, in the Sunday Times of London, on the sorry state of TV and why s...
The Buzz
Taking jokes seriously
Sports as cartoon Tank McNamara has quite a job. He's the ex-jock TV anchor who covers the insanity of the sports world in the comic strip named for him. Cartoonists Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds ...