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
Handcuffing prisons
A court decision could put an end to a successful rehab program that is cutting the rate of repeat offenses-all because it lacks "adequate safeguards" against establishing religion
Wartime propaganda
Arab stations exploit graphic images and doctor footage to pump anti-Israel, anti-U.S.
Old-time religion
The stars of yesterday headline a conference for conservative students-and that's fine with the youngsters
High & dry
Record heat and a drought that won't end are hurting livestock and lives
Voices
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Once noble I grew up and was active in the Episcopal Church, but reluctantly left it over 30 years ago, after God called me to saving faith, in favor of a church that believed God's Word an...
Joel Belz
Wanted: Judges like Solomon
When I took on the assignment of reporting to you the story of a recent federal court case in which an Iowa prison ministry was ruled unconstitutional, I knew I'd have to end up both a straight ne...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Race to the bottom
In 1979 at the Cheltenham Mall in Philadelphia I struck up a conversation with a middle-age man sitting on a bench in a rumpled dark suit and two-day stubble. He was insistently Persian (not Irani...
Marvin Olasky
Temptations of the rich
The Lord's Prayer declares, "Lead us not into temptation," but that's exactly what the National Flood Insurance Program has done for some Americans of above-average income, and-in our new hurrican...
Notebook
Sports
Image makeover
If his coaching style is any indication, Art Shell won't make his second tenure as coach of the Oakland Raiders like his first. While most NFL teams use training camp to try to transform their clu...
Money
Cruel to be kind
The suburban teenager who works at a burger joint has something in common with the single mother who buses tables to provide for her children. It's the same thing they have in common with the midd...
Culture
Movies & TV
Instant message
The Messengers (TLC, Sunday, 10 p.m. ET) is trying to find America's next motivational speaker. The season begins with 10 contestants, like the poet, the missionary, the teacher. Each week, they t...
Notable CDs
Best-selling CDs
Style: Spacy electronica tenuously tethered to traditional pop-song structures. Cautions: Obscenities ("Black Swan"). Worldview: That the worlds both inside and outside oneself are n...
Movies & TV
Oliver's twist
Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (rated PG-13 for intense and emotional content, some disturbing images and language) is bizarre and shocking, but for none of the anticipated reasons. The film ca...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Behind bars bar One enterprising prisoner at a Vermont state correctional institution thought he found the perfect audience for a new bar scene: his fellow inmates. Officials in Springfield...
Quotables
Quotables
"This could be the most costly infraction of all time." Laurie Levenson, professor at Loyola University Law School, on Mel Gibson's arrest for drunk driving and the reported anti-Semitic re...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Election '06 Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman needs all the "Joementum" he can muster to knock off Democratic primary foe Ned Lamont on Aug. 8. Lieberman trailed slightly in the hotly contest...
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War crimes
I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don't take sides for or against Israel." Those are the words of Michigan Democratic Congressman John Dingell (pictured), spoken on Detroit tel...