A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Sands run down at Bam
COVER STORY: Time is past for pulling victims from the rubble of one of Iran's most-powerful earthquakes.
Help for Iran
Sending money is the most efficient way to help with physical needs of earthquake victims. But U.S. sanctions against the Islamic govern...
Can anyone stop the Dean machine?
POLITICS: It seems to be all-or-nothing for the top Democratic presidential hopefuls in a contest that has become Howard Dean's to lose
State of the states
ABORTION: A new report says legislatures in the South and the Midwest are helping create a culture of life, while Northeastern and Western states rank the lowest in abortion-related safety for women, the unborn, and the newly born
Sports
What now? What exactly are the Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers supposed to do now? Weeks of nearly public negotiations to trade ...
Voices
Mailbag
Homosexual activists have stolen the triangle, the church's symbol for the Trinity, and the rainbow, God's sign to Noah. I think Christians should not give credence to this theft by using illustra...
Andrée Seu Peterson
The 'wide' way
FOR ME EVERYTHING IS BIBLICAL. EVEN DISNEY'S Brother Bear, as pumped with New Age cliches as a Unitarian Sunday school class, is helpful to my piety. Each loincloth-clad noble savage, at his comin...
Marvin Olasky
Curvy mountain road
LATE LAST YEAR THE THUMPING NEAR MY CHIMNEY came not from Santa Claus but from roofers pulling off our old shingles and putting a new cover on our sharply pitched, tall house. On a windy day we as...
Joel Belz
Stubborn unbelief
WHATEVER ELSE YOU MIGHT HAVE optimistically in view for this troubled old world in the year 2004, my guess is that you can forget the one key thing that-if we could fix it-would solve a zillion ot...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
The free folks vs. the Orcs
EACH EPISODE OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS, AS IT came out year by year, resonated in an eerie way with current events. The Fellowship of the Ring showed terrifying Dark Riders breaking into the peacef...
Culture
Higher-quality fare?
The American Film Institute-composed of movie historians, scholars, and filmmakers-named last month what they consider to be the 10 best TV shows of the year. In no particular order, they are Joan...
Culture
Translation problems
Quite a bit has been written about Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost in Translation (rated R for some sexual content, including several shots of a nearly naked female posterior). Given that the film ...
Culture
Gaining ground
This is the fourth in an occasional series of e-mail interviews with writers, scholars, and others who help form the culture in which we live. WORLD hopes that readers, by listening to influential...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
It's all academic The Modern Language Association held its convention last week in San Diego, and in addition to numerous sessions on sensible topics, such as "Musicality in Modern Poetry,"...
Quotables
Quotables
There's no more doubt left. Khieu Samphan, a former leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge party, on the atrocities committed during the party's reign in the late 1970s. Mr. Samphan insists he di...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Iran As survivors of Iran's earthquake scavenged for clothes and jostled for handouts, President Mohammad Khatami thanked those who have offered help-"including the Americans"-but played down talk...
The Buzz
Blogwatch
Gloom-and-doom Democrats Many in the blogosphere are beginning the new year with the assumption that all the Democratic candidates for president are doomed, and that means the task of pundi...