A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Voices
The Editors
Mailbag
Calling it With the First Amendment twisted into "separation of church and state," pornography's foul stench protected as "freedom of speech," and sodomy merely an "alternate lifestyle," I ...
Joel Belz
Ryan's hope
If you know someone under the age of 50-anyone at all-who confidently thinks he's going to get all the retirement benefits promised by Social Security, please send me that person's name and phone ...
Friendly confines
The Parents Television Council (PTC), a pro-family watchdog group, has released its annual Top 10 lists, highlighting what it considers to be the best and the worst broadcast TV shows for family v...
Janie B. Cheaney
Missouri no-compromise
When Missouri applied to join the union in 1818, she brought a long-simmering issue to a boil. Until then, the United States had an equal number of slave states and free states, so admitting Misso...
Marvin Olasky
Partial pivot
This period betweeen the major political party conventions is a good time to think through what's at stake in this year's presidential election. Leaders of voter-registration drives on both sides ...
Notebook
Sports
Rivers dance
Poor San Diego Chargers. First Eli Manning maligned them, saying he wanted nothing to do with the team and its first-draft pick. Then, assuming Philip Rivers would be a low-maintenance alternative...
Technology
Archive for the ages
The National Archives is quietly planning one of history's great technological feats: a super-powered storage system that will preserve government documents indefinitely for access from anywhere i...
Business
Lower education
As unemployment figures rose the past three years, so too did the number of students seeking to raise their educational qualifications by enrolling in advanced degree programs. But new figu...
Culture
Movies & TV
Doc
For a while, family-friendly Pax TV aired mainly home-shopping programming and recycled content like Touched by an Angel re-runs. Pax still depends on such fare, but it has grown to the point of o...
Notable Books
Best-selling books
1. MY LIFE -- Bill Clinton Content: Bill Clinton's overweight memoir revisits some events of his life in minute detail, and glosses over many others. Gist: Instead of going deeper, t...
Movies & TV
Collateral
Films like Collateral help make the case for auterism, the idea that the guiding vision of a single author (usually the director) shapes a film project. Collateral may at first sound like "the new...
Movies & TV
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite (rated PG for thematic elements and language), a hit at last year's Sundance Film Festival, is one of the oddest, goofiest movies to hit theaters in quite some time. It's not so ...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Citizen's self-arrest Vernon, Vt., Police Chief Ian McCollin has pulled over many drunk drivers, but Bryan Condo was the first alleged drunk driver to pull him over. The chief says he was e...
Quotables
Quotables
"It was wrong, it was foolish, it was inexcusable." New Jersey Democratic Gov. James E. McGreevey announcing his resignation last week after acknowledging that he had an extramarital affair...
The Buzz
The Buzz
CIA President George W. Bush named Porter Goss, Florida Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to head the CIA, replacing longtime director George Tenet, who resigned last m...