BIRD'S EYE
Political Fashion Can Hurt, Even Kill
By Karl Zinsmeister

SIDELIGHTS
News Scraps
Eleven million words. Hillary vs. Rudy? Swiss Army hit by terror. Wacky Columbians. Operatic Qaddafi. China cracks down on the web.

INDICATORS
Numbers, etc.
Edited by Karl Zinsmeister, Joseph Light
Do charter schools work? Marry well. Death penalty divide.

SCAN
Short News and Commentary
By Steven Vincent, Susanna Dokupil, Alan Dowd, Shawn Macomber, Lewis Andrews, Amy Thoma, Iain Murray, and Chelsea Stein
"COPS" in Baghdad. Defending the Ten Commandments. Arguing about American decline...again. Pill-popping adults. School-choice myths. Berkeley Reublicans? The consumer's beef with the mad cow ban.

"LIVE" WITH TAE
Theodore Olson and Edith Jones
As Washington convulses over activist courts and Senate approval of judicial nominations, we talk law and judges with two of America's top legal figures: former solicitor general Ted Olson and federal judge Edith Jones.

ENTERPRISING
A Company Shutdown Can Be a Good Thing
By Joseph Light
Mitsubishi, Japan's fourth largest automaker, sits in the midst of a scandal that makes the corporate malfeasance at Enron, Worldcom, and Parmalat look trivial.

FORWARD OBSERVER
Our Looming Science Crisis
By James K. Glassman
Poor science and math education in the U.S. may send the economy into a tailspin.

GEOPOLITICS
Anti anti-Americanism
By Victor Davis Hanson
George W. Bush didn't cause this new round of anti-Americanism. But he may well have done more than anyone to end it.

IN REAL LIFE
First-person America
By Justin Torres
Lights! Camera! Al-Jazeera!

BEAT THE PRESS
Internet Killed the Video Star?
By Chris Weinkopf
Pajama-clad bloggers strike again.

NOW PLAYING
Hollywood, from Diamonds to Dross
By Josh Larsen
Messy, honest reality on race.

THE TUBE
Star Trek Warps to an End
By James Lileks
The Enterprise is dry-docked, but that can't last.

BOOK TALK
Reviews of New Books
By Roger Bate, Karina Rollins, Blake Hurst
South Africa: The First Man, The Last Nation by R.W. Johnson. Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz. Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning.

DIGEST
Summaries of Important Research
Edited by Iain Murray
Schooled in statistics. Battle in the skies. Regulating the regulators.

TRANSCRIPT
Words Worth Repeating
By Michael Crichton
Take the fiction out of science policy.

OPINION PULSE
The Latest Survey Data
Edited by Karlyn Bowman
Police prestige, Neighborhood confidence. LAPD blues.

THE MAIL
Reader Feedback

LAST GASP
Cartoon Humor