A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Throwing heat and taking heat
If major-league baseball avoids the foolishness of a strike next month and moves toward playoffs and the World Series, Atlanta's John Smoltz is likely to be on the mound in the ninth inning of his team's crucial games.
'God is in control. No more fear'
George Will's major baseball book has the title Men at Work; he makes the pursuit of hits and strikeouts a grim task. John Smoltz is ser...
Talibanizing the other '-stans?
Ex-Soviet states-Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan-feel the heat from radical Islam
'This is American damage'
Israel's "targeted attack" that kills a terrorist leader also kills 14 civilians in his apartment building, angering the White House and possibly jeopardizing future U.S.
Partially approved
House votes again for a ban, Senate expected to stall
Voices
Mailbag
Unusual concern The disappearance of Elizabeth Smart is unusual and of concern to me as a parent because she was abducted from her own bedroom in the night while her parents were at home ("...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Discomfort zone
I had no intention of being anything but a warm body from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the "4-year-olds" Sunday school class at my church. There was a hole that wanted plugging-a need for "teachers" a...
Marvin Olasky
O, Canaria
CALGARY-From the U.S. perspective it sometimes seems that the name of our great northern neighbor should be Canaria, land of canaries, rather than Canada. Miners took canaries into mineshafts to w...
Joel Belz
Still in exile
ROBERT BERRY'S CRITICS CALL HIM AN ALARMIST. He's a very bright man, they say (and they are right), but the system he's dropped out of needs his insights and skills. But don't try that line...
Culture
Movies & TV
City that sleeps around
HBO's weekly sitcom Sex and the City made its season debut this month with all of the fanfare normally reserved for feature films: a star-studded red-carpet premiere, countless reviews and fawning...
Notable Books
Bestsellers
36 points [NYT: 1st; ABA: 3rd; LAT: 3rd; PW: 1st] CONTENT A well-documented, heavily footnoted exposé of liberal bias in the press and vapidity in the marketplace of ideas. GIST Ann ...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Banned in Ann Arbor When an Ann Arbor high-school senior sought to discuss homosexuality and religion, school officials censored the text of her proposed speech. So she and her mother filed...
Quotables
Quotables
Kids free, adults 25¢, city councilmen unwelcome. A mock "toll" sign in front of the home of Jerry and Patti Hirschman of Grand Island, Neb. The city council on May 21 ordered homeowners in...
In Brief
In Brief
Man knows not his time A forgotten hero of the cold war died on July 19, according to the UK's Sunday Telegraph. Born in 1936, Alexander Ginzburg worked as a journalist, theatrical producer...