A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
2004 OLYMPICS
The Olympic Games that begin Friday, Aug. 13, are a five-ring circus with hundreds of personal sagas about victory's thrills and defeat's agony.
What's happening, and when
From air rifle competitions to the men's 4x400-meter relay, opportunities for medals abound.
Terror's next target in Iraq
In the first coordinated assault on one of Iraq's most important minorities, Islamist insurgents murder 12 and injure 60 Christians at worship.
Return fire
Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra says the Democrats are trying to destroy President Bush's credibility with their freshly minted anti-war rhetoric
Voices
Andrée Seu Peterson
The problem of good
Much worthwhile ink has been spilt on the problem of evil-how can evil exist if God is holy and omnipotent. Less strenuous debate, it seems to me, is waged over the problem of good. This is unfort...
Marvin Olasky
Good sports
The next two weeks of Olympic coverage will feature paeans of praise for champions mixed with reportage (such as in our cover story) of the pain among those who fall short. But the larger question...
Mailbag
Christian utopia? I attended a Constitution Party function some months ago at which both Michael Peroutka and Judge Roy Moore spoke ("Could this man be Bush's Nader?" July 14). Christians g...
Joel Belz
Life support
If you think that the greatest significance of the collapse of the Berlin Wall 15 years ago was the freedom that event brought to several million East Germans, think again. The really important le...
Judging the Judgment
When Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times read the finale to the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, he was shocked to see what Christians believe about the Last Judgment. ...
Notebook
Technology
Frozen out
An emerging privacy option called the security freeze gives people a tool to keep identity thieves away from their credit histories. It lets people block access to their credit reports until they ...
Religion
Religious differences
Want to know what college juniors are thinking? UCLA researchers surveyed 3,680 of them on 46 campuses. The study found that about one-fifth were "highly religious" (the majority of them women) wh...
Culture
Movies & TV
The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate, released in 1962, is a Cold War classic. The story of U.S. soldiers brainwashed and then reinserted into society (based on the Richard Condon novel) had both communists a...
Movies & TV
Amish in the City
Reality shows have gone beyond mere game-show survival to traffic in the more important issues of life: marriage, careers, surgery. Now a reality show is taking up an even more ultimate issue: rel...
Notable CDs
Best-selling CDs
1. A GHOST IS BORN -- Wilco Weeks on chart: 6 Style: World-weary rock, alternative folk division. Objectionable material: "Company in My Back" (obscenities). Worldview:...
Movies & TV
The Village
M. Night Shayamalan's movies put reviewers in a curious position. All four of his recent films, starting with The Sixth Sense, depend heavily on what the audience does not know to achieve the desi...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Flipped out Some of the great paintings of the 17th-century Dutch Masters will be on display at a leading South African museum next month-but nobody will be able to see them. The Reuters ne...
Quotables
Quotables
"Millionaire mopes." Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti's description of the USA men's basketball team after a 17-point loss to underdog Italy last week in a pre-Olympics exhibition g...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Homeland security Intel gathered from a suspected al-Qaeda computer expert was largely responsible for the increased threat level for three East Coast financial districts last week. A CIA expert d...