A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
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The real threat This week Newsweek had a 10-page cover story on the worn-out issue of the vice president's accidental shooting of a hunting buddy, complete with a timeline, schematics, and ...
Joel Belz
Prophecy fulfilled
I watched a small bit of prophecy being fulfilled last week-and sadly, it was happening right on schedule. I had first heard the prediction about 20 years ago. "I know you hear everywhere,"...
For the fun of it
This is just so hard to believe," said the state fire marshal, Richard W. Montgomery, after Alabama authorities caught the arsonists who burned nine churches. "My profile on these suspects is shot...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Rigamarole
Insight from the horse's mouth. A friend of a friend crowed over drinks about his gay lifestyle: "all the sex you want without any of the male-female rigamarole." It's an "aha" moment for m...
Marvin Olasky
Treadmill clues
Players of the venerable board game Clue know the moment when the party's over. A contestant may say, "Colonel Mustard in the dining room with the revolver," and be shown surreptitiously a card th...
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Sports
Missing out on the madness
Ironically, March Madness means the retreat of the mad man of college basketball. And it's always been this way. CBS-not ESPN-has the broadcast rights for the field-of-65 NCAA men's college basket...
Religion
Conscience clears
A regional church court cleared self-proclaimed "lesbian evangelist" Jane Spahr, 63, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister and former denominational official, of charges she improperly conducted...
Culture
Movies & TV
Black.White
In 1959, white author John Howard Griffin colored his skin and lived as a black man in the segregated south. His book Black Like Me, published in 1961, recounted the trials and indignities that bl...
Notable Books
Bestselling books
CONTENT A widower of seven years with grown daughters decides to sell the family home and buy an avocado grove in Texas, where he wrestles with big questions while interacting with an eccentric ca...
Movies & TV
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
As is often the case, most of the Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film were largely unknown to American audiences at the time of the ceremony. What's especially sad about this is ...
Dispatches
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Charity at home
As tax season approaches, Americans scramble to collect their receipts. What they will find, collectively, is an incredibly generous country. In 2004, U.S. charitable giving reached $249 bi...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Crash course Students often complain that what they learn in school is irrelevant to their lives, but several in Illinois may have a point. A requirement in many Illinois school districts t...
Quotables
Quotables
"If you take this to its logical, ludicrous extreme, every single person who comes up to receive Holy Communion, you have to ask them to show papers." Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony o...
The Buzz
The Buzz
SERBIA Comrades of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic put his body on display in Belgrade ahead of a March 18 funeral in a country still ensnared by its communist past and torn by ethnic te...