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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• Spending on healthcare in the United States has grown from 7.2 percent of GDP in 1970 to 12.3 percent in 1990 and 16.2 percent in 2007...
Could consumer-run healthcare provide an alternative to government-run options?
A major legislative overhaul of U.S.
Who's the most famous man in the world?" my son asked me some time back. The president of the United States, I thought. But no, it was someone my son had recently brushed against while working at ...
Off Jeb Stuart Highway a rail bed runs through the Virginia highlands. Follow the highway east and you'll eventually end nearly at the lip of the old Civil War hero's grave. Follow the rail bed an...
Driving up through the Adirondacks of North Country, New York, three years ago to the Clinton County Correctional Facility for a visit, I had no idea of the story that lay behind the town tucked i...
At WORLD we criticize Barack Obama a lot but look for opportunities to compliment him. He is the president of all of us, and Romans 13 (plus other chapters of the Bible) adjure us: "The authoritie...
It took a little research-taking into account the week in 1993 when a record snowstorm forced us to cancel an entire issue and double up the next week. But a diligent count says that yes, this is ...
More than numbers Humongous hurrahs for the exposition on the state of American Christianity ("Is Christianity in the U.S. doomed?" June 20)! Thank you for the hope you stirred in those of ...
Music
When Flannery O'Connor wrote that "conviction without experience makes for harshness," she was referring to the tendency of naïve if sincere believers to proselytize with something less than grace...
Books
Michael F. Bird's Introducing Paul (IVP, 2008) does that splendidly. A Scottish lecturer in New Testament, Bird has a knack of vividly putting in current context the radical nature of some New Tes...
Notable CDs
The psychedelic aural haze through which Animal Collective's singing fights to be heard not only renders many of their lyrics unintelligible but also makes them seem beside the point. They're not....
Notable Books
The charming Rosie Flo soft-cover coloring books are filled with dresses and costumes according to a theme. In Rosie Flo's Holiday the theme is travel and the dresses come from all over the world:...
Movies & TV
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is without question a good movie. With real chemistry between the characters, laugh-out-loud scenes of teen-wizard angst, and spectacular cinematography, it ...
Movies & TV
People came from all over Afghanistan to compete in Kabul's competition show Afghan Star, but it looks like the apocalypse made it there first. In Havana Marking's striking documentary of the same...
Movies & TV
Though Brüno, guerrilla comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up to his phenomenally successful 2006 debut, Borat, topped the July 10-12 box office, it is also making news for one of the steepest sa...
Movies & TV
Public Enemies (rated R for violence and language) tells the Depression-era story of John Dillinger. The film tries to make the bank robber a sort of anti-hero, but director Michael Mann can't esc...
Music
Wilco, which like Son Volt had its origins in the alternative country-rock band Uncle Tupelo, has been releasing albums since 1995. It won't be challenging the longevity of Aerosmith (36 years) or...
Quotables
"We can't pretend anymore that SSNs can be kept secret." Peter Swire, chief counselor for privacy during the Clinton administration, on a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University ...
The Buzz
Going her way Senate Republicans, keenly aware they cannot stop confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, fought in televised hearings to air wider grievances with the Obama ad...
Quick Takes
Makeshift weapon Without mace, pepper spray, or even a gun, a Chicagoland cabbie got resourceful when a passenger tried to rob him. Elgin, Ill., police say a knife-wielding perpetrator trie...