Listening to the unheard
The news cycle is loud, but we need to hear those who can’t shout
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 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...
Sports
Merit over mouth Even as feminist Martha Burk and Augusta National boss Hootie Johnson sparred over women's membership at the gol...
Technology
AS The worm turns 2003 was the Year of The Worm. Malicious programs spread around the world, slowing down internet connections an...
International news
Breath & death Nearly 8,500 people around the globe were infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, the first ...
Voices
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...
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...
Notebook
Culture
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 ...
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. ...