BIRD'S EYE
The Election's Over--Now Fight the War
By Karl Zinsmeister
The task ahead in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East is bigger than any political personalities.

SIDELIGHTS
News Scraps
By Brandon Bosworth
Bloody-minded Michael Moore.  Real estate run-up in Iraq.  Security slush funds.  Picky terrorists.  Jesse Jackson defines Biblical conservatives.  Berlin Wall nostalgia.  The offensive Mr. Buckley.

SCAN
Short News and Commentary
Acceptable bigotry.  Terrorists, not activists.  Immigration security.  Gun-control flop.  Architecture gone awry.  Lawsuit realities.

INDICATORS
Numbers, etc.
Real-life results of sex on TV.  We're an R&D nation.  Space census.

IN REAL LIFE
First Person America
By Christine Parsons
A lesson in home security.

FLASHBACK
Lunar Skeptics
By Bill Kauffman
The Apollo voyages to the moon marked the triumph of the 35th President over the 34th.

FORWARD OBSERVER
At Peace in War
By James K. Glassman
Are we taking the attacks on America seriously enough, or deluding ourselves in our normalcy?

POLITICO
2008, Here We Come
By Grover Norquist
We are already tardy in focusing our attention where it belongs next--on the Presidential race of 2008.

BEAT THE PRESS
Rather's Ruin
By Chris Weinkopf
The liberal media crackup.

THE ECONOMIST
Ugly Truths about Runaway College Tuition
By Richard Vedder
Here are ten major sources of the problem.

NOW PLAYING
Superfamily
By Josh Larsen
The Incredibles values family.

BOOK TALK
Reviews of New Books
By Joseph Sternberg, Susanna Dokupil, Naomi Riley
Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf, My Life by Bill Clinton, and Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture by Mark Oppenheimer

DIGEST
Summaries of Important Research
Campaign finance fictions.  Ensuring insurance.  Minor little countries.  Hi-tech stasis.  Population busts.

OPINION PULSE
The Latest Survey Data
Space Exploration.  New lows in media credibility.

THE MAIL
Reader Feedback
 

LAST GASP
Cartoon Humor