A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
TOO LEGIT TO QUIT
Critics contend the United States is abandoning rule-of-law gains made in the interim Iraqi constitution in favor of a UN-brokered solution that may satisfy a political timetable-but not the Iraqi people.
Bush pushes faith-based aid initiative
Bush pushes faith-based aid initiative
Very American Idol
Not too long ago, television was a unifying force in American culture. With only three or four channels to choose from, the whole nation...
'I don't want to go home in a box'
SAUDI ARABIA: Latest al-Qaeda attack has Westerners and Americans fleeing, oil prices spiking, and people wondering whether the House of Saud is a house of cards
Voices
Joel Belz
Reshaping memories
I'm writing this column on Memorial Day morning. This was the weekend when our nation dedicated a new $179 million World War II memorial on the Mall in Washington. It was the weekend when a four-s...
Andrée Seu Peterson
In the know
I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY THE BOSTON GLOBE would sound Paul Revere's alarm over a new treatment-resistant strain of gonorrhea, when that seems so damning of modern lifestyles. By the eighth paragr...
Moral minutemen
Americans face the greatest moral and -spiritual crisis we have confronted since slavery threatened to rend us asunder nearly a century and a half ago. That crisis, same-sex marriage, is being foi...
Marvin Olasky
Keep it simple
Today's my 54th birthday, and I realize more than ever how much I owe to God and to my wife. I realize how dumb I am, and how often I have to read passages from the Bible many times before finally...
Notebook
Sports
Sports
Halo violation Raul Mondesi went from being a Pirate to an Angel in less than a month. And although he doesn't wear an actual halo, the current generation of dissatisfied baseball players may see...
Technology
Technology
Unsafe and insecure Wireless networking may be booming, but many households that install the equipment are lax about security. Manufacturers and experts estimate that up to 80 percent of these use...
Medicine
Health
Border run Federal regulators are showing hints that they will lighten up on gray-market medicine sales from Canada. This follows Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson's speculation t...
Business
Business
Pricing power Nearly 60 percent of people surveyed in a recent poll said they expected to drive less this summer because of rising gas prices. But with a gallon of gas surging to an average price ...
Culture
Culture
Sects and the city
SOMEONE AT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES Union has apparently, with the help of a magnifying glass, spotted a miniscule cross in the seal of the city of Los Angeles. The detail is part of the seal ...
Culture
"Sexy man of God"
Raising Helen (PG-13) is about a young woman (Kate Hudson) working in a glamorous model agency who suddenly finds herself with three kids when her sister dies. The movie plays on the difference be...
Culture
Disaster of a movie
MoveOn.org claims that The Day After Tomorrow is "the movie the White House doesn't want you to see." If that's true, perhaps it's simply a matter of good taste among members of the administration...