A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
House hunting
Democrats want to bag just six seats this November, giving them control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994.
Health
Hijacking Harry & Louise Hollywood's cloning lobby has enlisted two old pitchmen in its campaign to reach Middle America: Harry a...
Technology
Mr. Smith goes to jail David L. Smith unleashed one of the world's most obnoxious computer viruses-and now he's going to prison for i...
Not about money
Forget the slur of education "greed"; school privatization firm Edison is just struggling to survive
Voices
Mailbag
Can't tell I am writing concerning your April 13 article, "Martyrs by the millions," which had some criticism of Israeli military tactics. First, you did not emphasize that the Palestinian ...
Joel Belz
The deaf will hear
It's hard to tell at which turn this story moved from the merely unusual to the truly bizarre. A couple of folks who live near the nation's capital wanted a child. But because both of them happene...
John Piper
Land divine?
How should bible-believing Christians align themselves in the Jewish-Palestinian conflict? There are biblical reasons for treating both sides with compassionate public justice in the same way that...
'To bigotry no sanction'
Editor's note: On April 25, seven Christian leaders wrote the following open letter to President Bush in response to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents around the world. DEAR MR. PR...
Marvin Olasky
Squandered inheritance
When I was young, and it was already clear that the Boston Red Sox would not offer me a contract even as a scoreboard keeper, I set my occupational sights on becoming a crackerbarrel philosopher, ...
Culture
Culture
Logical inversions
"'Logic!' said the Professor half to himself. 'Why don't they teach logic at these schools?'" Professor Digory in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was complaining about the fatuo...
Music
Best Albums
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Movies & TV
False freedom
Television isn't always an indication of popular sentiment-but it is at least an indication of what the liberal elite believes to be popular sentiment. So what does the popular television show Bos...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
QuickTakes
One toke is over the line Is marijuana a harmless high? Of course not, argues White House drug czar John P. Walters in The Washington Post. He reports that today's potheads inhale smoke tha...
Quotables
Quotables
President Clinton did not demand a talk show. Julia Payne, spokeswoman for Bill Clinton, on a meeting between Mr. Clinton and NBC executives on the possibility of the former president hosti...
In Brief
In Brief
Dictator as playwright Does Saddam Hussein have an artsy streak? Iraq's National Theater recently opened a new play called Zabibah and the King, which is based on a novel that many believe ...