A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
False witnesses?
The U.S.
NOW vs. Scheidler: A timeline of events
The National Organization for Women vs. Joseph Scheidler is a federal racketeering case brought by the feminist group against a loosely ...
Cast of characters
JOSEPH SCHEIDLER An architect of nonviolent abortion protest, and a named defendant in NOW vs. Scheidler. TIM MURPHY An activist ...
Voices
Mailbag
Power science Cal Thomas nailed the relevant issues in his column, "Gone bananas" (Sept. 7). It is all about academic power and has nothing to do with true science. As a professional geolog...
Joel Belz
Where is God?
Where was God on Sept. 11?" millions of Americans have asked for the last year. So it strikes me as strange, as we approach the strong likelihood of war in Iraq, that we've heard so few folks aski...
Andrée Seu Peterson
How the West was lost
ON THE CUSP OF WAR WITH IRAQ, AND IN THE aftermath of a courageous speech by a president before the United Nations, Sept. 12, 2002, I step out of the way and cede my space to a prophet: "A ...
Marvin Olasky
Crossing over
WITH THE JEWISH HIGH HOLY DAYS LAST MONTH came another letter asking why I had written six months earlier that Bob Dylan, "born again" in 1978 by his own testimony, had "apparently reaffirmed his ...
Culture
Movies & TV
Fish and ships
VEGETABLES HAVE LONG BEEN one of the trials of childhood, but thanks to Big Idea's Veggie Tales, kids now hug tomatoes and cucumbers along with teddy bears. Big Idea releases Jonah, the first full...
Culture
10 questions with a Top 10: Ann Coulter
You draw amazing amounts of heat, even for an outspoken conservative. How do you account for this? I tell the truth, relentlessly. In addition, I thrive on their attacks, which seems to annoy t...
Music
Haggard & cashed out
More and more radio listeners feel like the Dixie Chicks in their hit single "Long Time Gone," lamenting the state of country music. "They sound tired but they don't sound haggard / They got money...
Movies & TV
Keeping it real
EVEN MORE THAN THE ACADEMY Awards, the Emmy Awards ceremony is a bloated, obsequious occasion for the entertainment industry to congratulate itself on a job well done. However fawning, though, the...
Notable CDs
Top Albums
1 week on chart STYLE Unplugged country with bluegrass roots. OBJECTIONABLE MATERIAL None. WORLDVIEW That love is a many-faceted, tortured, and tangled thing: fragile yet toug...
Notable Books
Best Selling Books
39 Points (ABA: 1st; NYT: 2nd; PW: 1st; Amazon: 1st) PLOT Susie Salmon, 14, is murdered. From "heaven" she watches the effects of her murder on family and friends. GIST Heaven in thi...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Affordable war Can the United States financially afford a war with Iraq? Yes, argues economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson. Without commenting on whether the country should make such a wa...
Quotables
Quotables
I don't know if I inhaled or not. Democratic candidate for Illinois governor ROD BLAGOJEVICH, who acknowledged smoking marijuana in college. It was easier to find a drunk kid than so...
In Brief
In Brief
Bootleg cigarettes? Online cigarette sales are booming, and Philip Morris is smoking mad. The tobacco giant last week filed lawsuits against more than a dozen websites that sell smokes in c...