A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Heroes, villains, soldiers, spies
It's too early to tell, but Joel C.
A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
An interview with Joel C.
'Bogey on your tail'
An excerpt from The Last Jihad
Casting his Lott
Trent Lott should resign his leadership post rather than force the Republican Party to pay the political price for his "poor choice" of words
A buildup begins
The world's lone superpower starts flexing its muscle outside of Iraq
The loser's circle
Many organizations are increasingly enticing donors with sweepstakes
Voices
Mailbag
Voice and vocation Thanks for Mr. Veith's insightful article regarding the Chevrolet sponsorship of the recent Come Together and Worship tour ("Like a rock ... musician," Nov. 23). As those...
Joel Belz
So far, we're losing
I WAS HEADED FOR A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE ON THE subject of countering abortion. So with nearly an hour extra at Los Angeles International Airport, I thought I'd find out what the folks there were thi...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Christmas connection
ON THE NIGHT JAIME FELL I WAS STARTING TO BE concerned about Christmas. Oh, not about the story in Matthew 1 particularly, but about how I was going to see my way, on this year's budget, to buying...
Marvin Olasky
Crossing over
PHYSICIAN JEROME GROOPMAN, IN THE MEASURE OF Our Days, tells how Kirk Bains, a highly successful stock speculator, was stricken with cancer and told by top specialists that nothing could be done f...
Culture
Culture
A merry solstice?
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, a number of the world's religions are paying tribute to Christianity by trying to come up with something like Christmas. Hanukkah was always ...
Notable Books
Notable books
CONTENT A slender, illustrated volume on the Civil War, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian McPherson. GIST Each two-page spread of this beautiful children's book deals with a different top...
Movies & TV
Made in Hollywood
THE BIGGEST SURPRISE IN THE new Jennifer Lopez vehicle Maid in Manhattan is that her love interest, played by Ralph Fiennes, is a Republican senatorial candidate. Can a major Hollywood actress-eve...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Hall of Fame Rose? Pete Rose may make it to baseball's Hall of Fame after all, if negotiations to reinstate him to Major League Baseball prove successful. Mr. Rose has been talking with Com...
Quotables
Quotables
Anybody who heard it thought it was a joke at first. Amanda Pendleton, mother of a Yonkers, N.Y., fifth-grader, after the local school district ordered schools to remove holiday decorations...
In Brief
In Brief
The Death of a Myth? Is the search for Bigfoot finally over? It was all a joke, according to a man who said his father strapped on 16-inch carved feet and left fake footprints behind him. ...