A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Dead ends in Darfur
With Sudan blocking outside intervention, crisis in its western province is in a precarious, and deadly, stalemate
All's fair in trade and war
Africa's fastest-growing trade partner is a zealous-if not scrupulous-China
Lawyered up
This year's post-election calm in the courts may stem from a pre-election litigious roar, but battles over voter fraud continue
Dangerous first step
Scholar Wayne Grudem on how "evangelical feminism" undermines Scripture and leads to theological liberalism
Beyond the border
From trade to the UN, Democrats will bring some changes to U.S.
Voices
Thanksgiving's forgotten ally
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...
Marvin Olasky
Apologizing in public
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...
Mailbag
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...
Joel Belz
Quiet time
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. ...
Notebook
Sports
Fire up the computers
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
Gay union
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...
Culture
Movies & TV
Whistling Dixie
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
Judgment calls
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
Bestselling CDs
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
Grand design
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...
Dispatches
The Buzz
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
Judicial wrecking ball
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
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
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...