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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BACKPEDALED: President Obama, who drew criticism in July after saying police officers "acted stupidly" by arresting Harvard University p...
Are poor people poor because they're paying the price for their own personal failures—or because the systems in which they find themselves have been broken and have failed the people within them? ...
How's this for a plot outline for a young adult novel? A teenage girl lives with her widowed father, who regularly impregnates her and purchases abortion herbs from the local witch. After his acci...
"Something's wrong with this baby," my ultrasound technician told me. She had just scanned Mrs. Jones (a fictitious name) at 20 weeks and went on to describe her findings, findings that surely mea...
Sami Jajouhana is the keeper of Nahum's tomb. The last of the Jews to leave al-Qosh in 1948 handed him the keys to the synagogue and a leather ledger, which he has used to this day to record visit...
A great one I just completed the 2009 Book Issue. It is a great edition, very instructive and informative. The last two columns, "Be shrill" and "Liberty's champion," make it worth the inve...
Last December, trying to be on time to Nassia's preschool Christmas party in Philadelphia, I asked the Lord-out loud, so my granddaughter would hear-for a parking spot. After 15 minutes of circlin...
New Orleans was once a city of American innovation: first opera house (1796), first Jewish U.S. senator (1852), first theater dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures (1896), and, of cours...
Notable CDs
Other than the fact that the "Choral" and "Collection" in the title aren't misspelled with "k"s, this album is a typical Kinks compilation, with 14 of its 15 tracks long familiar to fans of the gr...
Notable Books
When Rob Walker moved to New Orleans with his girlfriend in 2000, he wrote letters to his friends in which he described his early impressions of his adopted city. The letters don't pretend to offe...
Movies & TV
Like many New Age religious books, The Answer Man is a lofty title in search of justification for itself. Director John Hindman's first film stars Jeff Daniels as the titular character, who has ma...
Movies & TV
What's more ridiculous than an elite crew of FBI special agents who happen to be talking guinea pigs? Their mission, of course. When a billionaire appliance tycoon programs every machine in...
Movies & TV
WORLD makes it a rule not to criticize movies without having seen them. It's time for the exceedingly rare exception. Orphan is a horror film about a husband and wife who bring a 9-year-old...
Movies & TV
The overwhelming success of director Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad) was bound to inspire imitation. The Ugly Truth is a crass romantic comedy that tries and fails to captur...
Music
For nearly 30 years, Bruce Sodano has been better known for being Donna Summer's husband than for having been a member of Alive N Kickin' in the 1970s or for being a gifted singer-songwriter in hi...
Books
If you want to learn more about adopting children and why, biblically, it's such a good thing to do, read Russell D. Moore's Adopted for Life (Crossway, 2009). Moore weaves in the story of the two...
Video
The line between an obscure flop and a cult favorite may be thin, but it's real, and few films have walked it as patiently as My Dinner with Jimi. A hit on the independent festival circuit ...
Quotables
"I am not a saint. Everyone understands that." Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, on recordings of conversations he had with a prostitute that were made public. His wife had alread...
The Buzz
Supreme fizz Sonia Sotomayor's road to becoming the nation's first Hispanic justice was relegated to the media's back pages under a sense that her confirmation was a fait accompli-once the ...
Quick Takes
Painted popular Figuring perhaps the whole routine of blowing water out of the proboscis had gotten old, elephants at the Chiang Mai zoo in Bangkok, Thailand, have a new method of attractin...