A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Sudden-death overtime
A divided nation leaves Bush and Gore deadlocked, as the promise of lawsuits and recounts threatens to keep the presidency undecided for weeks-or more
14 hours of ups and downs
For Gore supporters on election night, fear turned to hope, to excitement, to disappointment and dismay, then to hope all over again-and now to the legal system
An uneasy majority
By the way: Elections for Congress and governor, along with votes on key referenda, are also worth noticing
A sad Democrat votes
Why I cast my first vote for a GOP president
History and hysteria
What a week! The stories that follow from World writers in Austin, Nashville, Florida, and other dramatic venues show the color and susp...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
The Music
1 Long Line of Leavers Caedmon's Call S...
Culture
The Movies
1 Charlie's Angels $40.5 million 1 week in release $40.5 million to date ...
Culture
The Galileo treatment
Science changes. Though the sciences are based on objective facts, the interpretation of those facts--the ways of tying them together into a coherent system--keeps developing. As Thomas Kuhn has s...
Dispatches
The Buzz
The Buzz
Around the world: Violence in Israel, concern in Russia While we were voting While WORLD writers focused on the U.S. election, we watched these overseas developments as well: Violence...
The Buzz
Faces
When the Fort Worth, Texas, City Council added "sexual orientation" to its nondiscrimination ordinance this fall, the media praised a councilman who, in a dramatic turnabout, supported the measure...
Quotables
Quotables
This is not the federal republic of America. It is the United States of America. Our sense of union, and everyone's inclusion, has now been based on this Electoral College. U.S. Sen. Robert...