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
Greener than thou
Earth Day 2006 arrives with some evangelicals making a controversial push for radical environmental legislation
Drawing blood
A 30-year-old law to protect Native Americans puts adopted children who've never set foot on a reservation at the mercy of Indian tribes
Crossover commentator
Detroit anchorman Frank Turner makes waves by attempting a career in evangelistic broadcasting
Mad tea party
From a teapot museum to the World Toilet Summit, a new report shows that pork-barrel politics is worse than ever
Voices
Janie B. Cheaney
Walking on air
She was busy all summer, constructing a web on the north window upstairs. Unless the sun was at exactly the right angle to gleam the gossamer threads, her structure was practically invisible and h...
Marvin Olasky
Multiplier effect
The date of this issue, April 22, throws me back to when I was in college 36 years ago and we observed the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The celebration gained wide backing that year for reas...
Mailbag
Clear as mud Yes, the Israelis were apathetic about the election ("Broken promises, cynical voters," March 25), but how does that make them different than North Americans? The real issues i...
Joel Belz
'F'
If any pharmaceutical company in America were discovered to be regularly marketing a product that a full third of the time killed those who ingested it, it's hard to know who would be the first to...
The end of humanism
Remember humanism? That optimistic belief that human beings are the apex of the universe, the source of all values, and the measure of all things? Throughout the 20th century, many intellectuals b...
Notebook
Sports
Getting Tiger by the tail
The scenario was perfect for Tiger Woods. Heading into Sunday at Augusta, the field allowed the four-time Masters champion to hang close to the top. He trailed by just one stroke to a trio of lead...
Medicine
Bird watcher
Most English-speaking countries expected bird flu to cross their borders, but the disease's arrival in Scotland on March 29 shocked at least one resident into paranoia. Members of the British pres...
Culture
Movies & TV
Take the Lead
Take the Lead is an "easy fix" movie, a Hollywood contrivance nailed in Thank You for Smoking (see "Blowing smoke," April 15). When a tobacco lobbyist meets a Hollywood super-agent to concoct a ca...
Movies & TV
Survival of the richest
Marxism is supposedly dead, but the allure of class warfare continues in the new reality TV show Survival of the Richest (WB, 8:00 p.m. ET Fridays). The show pairs wealthy kids with blue-co...
Video
The Ten Commandments
In a sense, The Ten Commandments has not withstood well the test of time. The effects in Cecil B. DeMille's biblical extravaganza are no longer special, with painted backdrops painfully obvious an...
Notable Books
Bestselling books
CONTENT A doting father with a past suffers as his 14-year-old daughter begins to pull away. Her secret life leads to a charge of rape against a high-school hockey star. Meanwhile the mother, a pr...
Dispatches
The Buzz Sidebar
Irrational Iran
I hope this Easter people were praying for the peace of the world and for those who keep it-because the enemies of peace are many and their arsenal ever more dangerous. Imagine Jim Jones of...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Plant food It's hard to imagine how a researcher thought to test this one out. If your houseplant needs a pick-me-up, one scientist claims liquor is quicker. That's because, according to th...
Quotables
Quotables
"God curse you all." Convicted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui at his sentencing trial after jurors listened to a recording of the final agonizing moments of hijacked Flight 93 before i...
The Buzz
The Buzz
IMMIGRATION Following the success of coordinated protests across the nation this month, immigrant sympathizers launched plans for an economic boycott May 1. "We need to be recognized as contributo...