Listening to the unheard
The news cycle is loud, but we need to hear those who can’t shout
SEEN BUT NOT HEARD
Reform-minded rebels of a new kind inside the National Education Association make themselves visible at this month's annual convention.
Campers' big tent
Ah, summer camp: bonfires, ghost stories, poison ivy-and religious controversy.
Will it play in Indy?
Indiana governor's race could be an indicator of the political appeal of the president's faith-based initiative
Wide-open spaces
The smallest laptop isn't always the coolest. New widescreen laptops are all the rage, promising more desktop room-and a bigger screen f...
Voices
Mailbag
Ball boys Marvin Olasky's diagnosis of what ails Major League Baseball was brought home to me after my son and I spent the evening watching a local Babe Ruth tournament game ("How to fix ba...
Joel Belz
Making distinctions
Hindus in the country of Malaysia had a bewildering worry last week. They went to the airwaves to warn the Malaysian public that growing numbers of phony astrologers, practicing their false arts i...
Everything in its place
G. K. Chesterton's novel The Ball and the Cross tells the story of a devout Christian and a committed atheist who attempt to settle their differences by fighting a duel. The earnest combatants fin...
Marvin Olasky
Summerhill revisited
ATLANTA-From the impoverished Summerhill neighborhood the gold dome of the Georgia state capitol located about a mile away is readily visible-and the struggle for political power that the dome rep...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Southward shift
Christianity is growing at a rate that is nearly unparalleled in the history of the church. Yet this growth is primarily taking place in cultures that have not previously been Christian at all. In...
Culture
BESTSELLERS
Scoring system: 10 points for first place, 9 for second, down to 1 for 10th, on the lists of the American Booksellers Association (independent, so...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
It doesn't matter whether ex-customers are right The retail adage that "the customer is always right" is often hard to live with-so Filene's Basement discount chain decided the best way to ...
Quotables
Quotables
I just want to say, 'Ahhhhh.' Departing White House spokesman ARI FLEISCHER in The Washington Times on what he planned to do on his first day off the job. Mr. Fleischer handled his 300th an...
The Buzz
Lonely at Langley
Texas hold 'em is a popular form of poker based on simple math. Players calculate their odds by dividing the number of unseen cards by those laid on the table. President Bush, always inclined to u...
The Buzz
TOP NEWS
1 which way did they go? The recycled flap over Bush administration in...
The Buzz
BLOGWATCH
Al Gore didn't invent the Internet, but Howard Dean has found a way to make money off of it. When the former governor of Vermont raised $7 million from April through June, he leaped from a blip in...