A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Republican bards
From the aftermath of 9/11 to this month's State of the Union address, an elite group of conservative speechwriters is helping to mold a wartime presidency
Starting over
Layoffs may prompt an entrepreneurial surge, America West gasps for air, and toll-free phone service ebbs
Heart and cold
Doctors find new weapons against heart disease and cold ailments, while energy drinks spark debate
All politics is local
The United States has been watching Afghanistan, but hot spots elsewhere deserve a squint
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Morally ugly minds
"It's a throwback. Nobody gets killed. There's no bad language. It's just an old-fashioned heist movie with lots of stars." Thus Steven Soderbergh describes his film Ocean's Eleven, one of the top...
Culture
Bestsellers
Scoring system: 10 points for first place, 9 for second, down to 1 for tenth, on the lists of the American Booksellers Association (independent, s...
Culture
Powerful Rings
A movie can be faithful to the book in two ways. One is to cram every detail from the novel onto the screen. Since a book like The Fellowship of the Ring can take weeks to read, while human...
Dispatches
The Buzz
The Buzz
Moussaoui does not "have anything to plead," Reid jailed without bail Terror on trial "In the name of Allah I do not have anything to plead. I enter no plea. Thank you very much," said a bea...
The Buzz
Flash Traffic
Keep your eye on Stephen L. Carter. He may be the fastest rising conservative communicator in America. And he's black. Like Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly, Carter is sharply critical of racial quo...
The Buzz
QuickTakes
CIVIL LIBERTIES FOR AMERICANS? What kind of election can exist when the candidates are legally barred from expressing their political views? Columnist George Will writes that this very situation e...
Quotables
Quotables
She didn't betray the real Germany by doing that. Andre Schmitz, chief of staff to Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, on movie legend Marlene Dietrich's repudiating of Nazi Germany, becoming an A...