Watch and wait
Election night could provide a quick White House winner, or a flood of mail-in ballots and social division could delay results for weeks
Voices
A close shave
Big deal," those who know me would say. And they're right; ever since I was a sophomore in college (keep reading to find out how long ago that was!) and clumps of near-black hair matted the shower...
Marvin Olasky
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of misery
With that historically dire day, the Ides of March, coming next week, it's time for a column in praise of misery. I'll get into it this way: How would you react if a trustworthy person offered to ...
Mailbag
God's creation Gene Edward Veith hit the nail on the head about marriage being created and ordained by God ("Present at the creation," Feb. 11). It is refreshing to hear a sane voice weigh ...
Joel Belz
Hooked on books
It isn't every day-and it's probably good that it isn't-that a WORLD subscriber e-mails me to say, "I just read your column and want to come and talk with you about it." But a fellow from Lockhart...
Ancient enemies
The Muslim world erupted when Danish cartoonists drew caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. Imagine their reaction if someone desecrated one of their holy figures not just in a drawing but in reali...
Notebook
Sports
Aging ace
Someday, Roger Clemens will make up his mind on whether to return for his 23rd major league season. Until then, the only uniform he'll don is the Team USA jersey for this month's World Baseball Cl...
Religion
Unity how?
One joke making the rounds was that last month's World Council of Churches assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil, may have contributed to global warming. Indeed, the assembly was a 10-day talkat...
Culture
Movies & TV
The Office
The Office (NBC, Thursdays, 9:30 ET) is the American version of a British comedy that racked up loyal fans on BBC America for its dry satire of the white-collar work world. The American Office, sl...
Notable CDs
Bestselling CDs
CATEGORY Singer-songwriterly rock 'n' roll for longtime fans of the head Kink's wit and wisdom. CAUTIONS "After the Fall," "Stand Up Comic" (profanity, vulgarity). WORLDVIEW Although...
Movies & TV
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
All my stories," said Flannery O'Connor, "are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal." ...
Dispatches
The Buzz Sidebar
A Hollywood production
In 1998, California voters passed Proposition 10, which laid a tax of 50 cents a pack on cigarettes. Since then the taxes from this initiative have contributed about $4 billion to the coffers of a...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Destruction instruction Southern California prosecutors are going after a different sort of terrorist. A federal grand jury indicted a radical environmentalist for giving a demonstration of...
Quotables
Quotables
"An auction bid is not always a rational decision." Auction official Boyd Browning on a Feb. 28 bidding war for a 2-year-old colt that hasn't yet run a race. Demi O'Byrne purchased the colt...
The Buzz
The Buzz
INDIA Thousands of protesters in Bombay and other cities did not dampen Bush administration enthusiasm over a U.S.-India pact cemented on March 2 during the president's first trip to India. The de...