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 better ending
The photo that accompanies this story is of my father and aunt. I sent it with this story because it is the last picture in the album before you close it and put it away, and you can see that it is a...
Marvin Olasky
July 4, 10, 30, 31
If you’re having a bitter day, this column is for you. Let’s start with a memory: ...
Joel Belz
Admission of bias
When a U.S. military plane crashed July 10 in rural Mississippi, killing all 16 Marines onboard, nobody tried to balance the account with an obligatory “bright side” of the story. And when Lake Tahoe...
Mindy Belz
Begin again
The head of Iraq’s Chaldean Church can be forgiven for a little ouchiness. “Those who have the right to talk about the future of Nineveh Plain are mainly the indigenous people of the region,” he said...
The Editors
Mailbag
‘Beach reads’ ...
Janie B. Cheaney
The ‘pluribus’ and the ‘unum’
A couple I know is celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. They’re the first baby boomers—my generation—whom I know personally to reach that milestone. Others of us have only a few years to go...
Timothy Lamer
An ethical blemish
In the 1997 movie Conspiracy Theory, Mel Gibson plays cab driver and conspiracy nut Jerry Fletcher, who weaves together wild theories on everything from the United Nations to the Vietnam War—and then...
Notebook
Religion
Clerical errors
During a June gathering in an Illinois chapel, a Nigerian archbishop and a group of North American Anglicans consecrated a British missionary to serve churches facing an erosion of Biblically orthodox...
Sports
Switch hitting
Appealing to both Christian and LGBTQ fan bases isn’t easy, as major league teams across America are finding out. Hosting a promotion for one group risks alienating the other. ...
Technology
Crowdsourced consensus
Public opinion in Taiwan over proposed regulations for online liquor sales had already been deadlocked for six years when, last year, the government tried a new approach. Instead of relying on...
Lifestyle
White House connection
When Ben Carson on March 11, 2016, endorsed Donald Trump and praised him as “very cerebral,” they formed one of the most unlikely political marriages in American history. ...
Culture
Movies & TV
Queens of the ring
The new Netflix series GLOW, about a women’s wrestling show, is being acclaimed as a feminist “send-up of industry sexism” (Salon). Ironically, GLOW feels more like a show about the making of...
Movies & TV
Dark disorder
The biggest lie people struggling with an eating disorder tell is “I got it under control.” That’s the straight-faced, self-deluded lie that Ellen (Lily Collins), the main character of Netflix...
Q&A
The state of matrimony
Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, is a University of Virginia sociology professor and author or co-author of many books: The most recent is Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and...
Children's Books
Lyrical literature
Heroes, Horses, and Harvest Moons: A Cornucopia of Best-Loved Poems, Vol. 1 ...
Books
Four classic books
Les Misérables ...
Books
Blue-collar concerns
Henry Olsen is a New York Yankees fan but otherwise knows what’s good for America—and it shows in his new book, The Working Class Republican (Broadside). ...
Movies & TV
Land, sea, and air
After the evacuation of over 300,000 Allied troops from the French beach of Dunkirk in 1940, Winston Churchill announced to the House of Commons, “A miracle of deliverance, achieved by valor, by...
Music
New or recent pop albums
Battle Creek Transit Authority: Live in Concert ...
Music
Reflections on Ravel
It’s commonplace among classical-music marketers to wait for anniversaries of composers’ births or deaths to release multiple renditions of their works. ...
Movies & TV
Fighting lies with cameras
Raqqa, Syria, the capital of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate, is an isolated place. The terror group’s government has been so oppressive that it has threatened death to city residents...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
‘Nothing short of miraculous.’ ...
Human Race
Human Race
Sentenced ...
News
By the numbers
431 The number of people euthanized without their permission in the Netherlands in 2015, according to recent figures. The country logged a total of 7,254 “assisted” deaths that year. 610,524 ...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Standing room only ...