A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Voices
Andrée Seu Peterson
A note from God
I have in my possession a note from God that I brought home from Glade Springs, Texas. It's in pencil block print and the signature is unmistakable: "God." The message reads, "I love you. I...
Marvin Olasky
Left behind?
You've probably seen this before in screeds from the religious left: claims that conservative Christians have twisted Christ into a god made in their own image. For example, the Huffington Post we...
Mailbag
Learning disabled I wonder if the Republicans have learned anything through this election ("GOP downfall," Nov. 18). I fear they have not. If they think they can win votes in the future by ...
Joel Belz
Two-way paranoia
The response has been unanimous and almost raucous. I tell people about the brief item in Gene Edward Veith's column in WORLD ("Anti-Christian paranoia," Dec. 2)-and they break first into dismayed...
Notebook
Sports
On-the-job training
When the crusty Bill Parcells gets effusive in praise, you know things are going well. And for brief moments during the stretch run of the NFL season, the Cowboys coach has been just that. Take, f...
Medicine
Paternity test
The women's lib movement in the 1960s exalted birth control pills for granting women sexual freedom. Forty years later, remembering to take The Pill daily has turned into a new ball-and-chain, and...
Culture
Notable Books
Bestselling books
Plot: When terrorists bomb a presidential candidate's motorcade, a hard-edged CIA agent goes after the plotters. Mitch Rapp fights assassins with assassination as he journeys into the world of con...
Movies & TV
Sacrificial spider
At first Wilbur is nothing but a runty spring pig. By the end of Charlotte's Web, we see him not just as Some Pig-he's terrific. He's humble. And through the compassion of a little girl named Fern...
Movies & TV
Wilbur force
Charlotte's Web, first published in 1952, was E.B. White's second book for children. Unaffected and gently humorous, the story became an instant classic and a mainstay of "best books" lists ever s...
Movies & TV
Food fight
In the Great Rhapsody of American Life, food is a big deal. And in America, we've taken the necessities for which our forebears and forefathers fought-a roof over our heads, shirts on our backs, f...
Movies & TV
Heroic fate
Heroes, NBC's new hit drama about ordinary people who learn that they possess superhuman abilities, could become the next X-Files or Lost. The show's believable and quirky characters, fascinating ...
Dispatches
The Buzz
The Buzz
Iraq The 160-page report released Dec. 6 by the Iraq Study Group is, as reports from bipartisan panels go, broad enough to leave something for everyone. Democrats see in it an indictment of...
The Buzz Sidebar
Past and present
I did not expect to meet a Daniel from the past on the way to meeting up with a future one. But there by the coffee, toast, and marmalade at a Kampala guesthouse was the unmistakable voice of Baro...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Sight unseen Overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds, a Washington woman recently bowled a 244. Not only is Centralia, Wash., resident Esther Medley elderly-she's 94-but she's also legally...
Quotables
Quotables
"You have all heard of a smoking gun. This is a squirting gun." Ken Edgett, staff scientist at Malin Space Sciences in San Diego, on photographic evidence of sporadic gushers of water on Ma...