A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
As police turn to facial recognition technology to identify suspects and solve cases, critics worry about privacy and false accusations
In Los Angeles, “defunding the police” led to disbanding a unit specially designed to help with homelessness
Donald Trump made gains among some Hispanic voters in 2020. Will the GOP continue the trend?
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With Sudan blocking outside intervention, crisis in its western province is in a precarious, and deadly, stalemate
Africa's fastest-growing trade partner is a zealous-if not scrupulous-China
This year's post-election calm in the courts may stem from a pre-election litigious roar, but battles over voter fraud continue
Scholar Wayne Grudem on how "evangelical feminism" undermines Scripture and leads to theological liberalism
From trade to the UN, Democrats will bring some changes to U.S.
On Oct. 3, 1863, Abraham Lincoln invited the people "in every part of the United States" to observe "the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father...
Matt Ristuccia writes in this week's issue that confession and repentance should accompany thanksgiving. That's true, and when we confess to God we should also, when appropriate, apologize to thos...
Shown otherwise I found "Third-degree Burns" (Oct. 28) accurately portrayed the double-facedness of Jon Tester. He attempts to look like a good 'ole farming Montana conservative, but his re...
It was only the third day after the election, just a few minutes before supper, when the phone rang. "Good," I thought, in one of those strange convolutions one's mind goes through at such times. ...
Sports
Depending on how the computers process the stretch run of college football and how a few key teams finish the year, college football on Jan. 8, 2007, might look a lot like it did on Nov. 18. Depen...
Religion
The 3,500-member Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, widely known as the world's largest homosexual church, last month joined the 1.2-million-member United Church of Christ. Now the Cleveland-based UCC's...
Movies & TV
If you swore off listening to the Dixie Chicks following their anti-George W. Bush comments in 2003, Natalie Maines would like to have a word with you. Actually, a few words-most of them containin...
Movies & TV
Thomas Hobbes conveyed in a single sentence what director Alejandro González Iñárritu spends 142 minutes intimating-that our lives in nature are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." ...
Music
Style: Theatrical power-punk. Cautions: "Teenagers" (obscenity), "The End" (casual cursing). Worldview: "You're just a sad song / with nothing to say about a life-long hospital stay....
Movies & TV
Start with a character, played movingly by a suddenly serious Will Ferrell, who walks on autopilot through a purposeless life. Plot in an obsessive-compulsive-boy-meets-vivacious-girl (the glowing...
The Buzz
Sudan The UN convened a high-level meeting in Ethiopia Nov. 16 with Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposing a "hybrid" UN peacekeeping force supporting African troops for Darfur after Sudan ...
The Buzz Sidebar
The new make-up of the United States Senate-51 Democrats and 49 Republicans-means that Vermont's Patrick Leahy once again wields the gavel when the Judiciary Committee meets. Leahy held tha...
Quick Takes
Pretty in pink Several inmates who staged a breakout attempt and set fire to the Dallas County (Mo.) Detention Center in October returned to their cells only to find Sheriff Mike Rackley ha...
Quotables
"To be honest, yes." Liberal Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, when asked whether he thought his loss on Nov. 7 was good for the country because it gave Democrats control of t...