2019 News of the Year
Notre Dame on fire ...
THE RUN-UP TO WAR
The rockets' red glare. Bombs bursting in air. As the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31, Americans staring into the blazing darkness over...
THE WAR
March 20, 2003: It was 5:35 a.m. local time when the first bombs fell on Baghdad. The explosions came first, then the air-raid sirens, a...
THE WAR AFTER THE WAR
"Mission Accomplished" read the banner flying from the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, the day President Bush declared an end to major com...
'I want to negotiate'
The bearded, disheveled man dragged from an eight-foot hole looked, in the words of one U.S. soldier, like a homeless man at a bus stati...
2003 NEWS of the YEAR
In a year of war, is anything else worth remembering? Like the new, high-tech bombs that suck the air out of a cave, bombshell stories f...
The nation
Last flight? America's space program suffered a grim setback on Feb. 1 when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated in mid-air j...
Politics
The Governator The effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis started out as almost a right-wing joke, so far-fetched and underf...
Courts
Monument moment A federal judge ordered the removal of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument from public vi...
Voices
Joel Belz
Fallen giants
TWO TOWERING OAKS IN THE FOREST OF American journalism fell a few days ago. The vacancies left by the two deaths are quite different from each other-but alike in that no one even pretends that rep...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Connecting the dots
NO ONE IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS CONNECTING the dots, except for Cal Thomas (see WORLD, Dec. 6): "If a male child was fondled by Michael Jackson, as it is alleged, why shouldn't he and the boy be all...
Marvin Olasky
Press year in review
DOES THE THRASHING OF LIBERAL REPORTERS IN 2003 signify the death throes of the old media order? Look at this howler from Charles Pierce in the Boston Globe on Jan. 5: "If she had lived, Mary Jo K...
Mailbag
Hero ingredients Gene Edward Veith is right on with "Victims as heroes" (Nov. 29). We have heard so much about Jessica Lynch, who really did not do anything all that heroic. The real hero o...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Movies
The year of Nemo Hollywood appears finally to be catching on to what research has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt: R-rated flicks tend to lose money, while family fare tends to be profita...
Culture
Television
Conservative TV For all of the liberal spin in network news, as documented in Bernard Goldberg's bestseller Bias, conservatives finally started exercising some clout on the small screen. ...
Culture
Books
A scary book award The year's most telling event in the world of books came when the distinguished, high-brow National Book Foundation awarded the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution ...