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Evangelicals gather for a service. (Kevin Horan/Aurora for USN&WR)
An important new statement says theological principles should trump policy preferences.
The lives of even the best known figures contain little-known details.
Images of diverse agricultural production and farming in the Sauri Millenium village, September 10, 2007 in Kisumu, Kenya. The pictures illustrate succesful production based on five years of initial structured financing of rural communities which allows small farmers to reach sustainability and the ability to support themselves. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)
Ideas range from improving aid programs to taking a break on biofuels.
Brazilian farmers complain about a government campaign against illegal deforestation.
His campaign against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman is expected to be an expensive and nasty fight.
California court seems to lend gays support for other antidiscrimination claims.
In hearings, a Senate committee urged an integrated approach to food policy.
Bush still objects to subsidies, but the bill contains more food relief.
Fears in Beirut that recent Shiite attacks may set the stage for revenge violence this summer.
In an unannounced change, the bounty for a most wanted terrorist is reduced from $5 million to $100,000.
Isolationist and paranoid, the repressive regime compounds the post-cyclone disaster.
A new reports says it's racial disparities, not counterterrorism.
Sunrise at Manzanar National Historic Site in California. (Kevin Horan/Aurora for USN&WR)
As Japanese-American former residents of the camps age, their cause becomes more pressing.
Armenians attend a ceremony celebrating Christmas Eve in Tehran, 5 Jan 2007. The main Christian society of Iranians are Armenian immigrants who came to Iran a long time ago. Armenian Christians believe that Christmas day is after New Years. (Shahpari Sohaei/Redux)
A draft Iranian law would mandate the death penalty for apostasy.
Former US News writer who was arrested as a spy in Moscow in 1986. (Jeffrey MacMillan for USN&WR)
In 1986, then-U.S. News Moscow correspondent Nicholas Daniloff became the focus of world attention after he was jailed by the KGB.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 1961. Kennedy said, "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. (AP)
An inside look at how John F. Kennedy’s most illustrious speeches were constructed.
At $1,000 a fill-up, independent drivers suffer, and costs to consumers rise.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, addresses the National Press Club April 28, 2008 in Washington, DC. Wright was Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama's pastor for many years. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Two leading experts share their diverging views on Barack Obama's controversial former pastor.
Over two decades after the disaster, radiation-poisoned former workers say the Russian government adds to their suffering.
Studio headshot portrait of British author Ian Fleming (1908-1964), the creator of James Bond, smoking a cigarette in a holder. (Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Ian Fleming, the British author who created the dashing spy in a series of novels is memorialized in a museum.
Over two decades after the disaster, radiation-poisoned former workers say the Russian government adds to their suffering.
Portrait of Bill McKibben (Lexie Moreland for USN&WR)
An Q&A with environmentalist Bill MicKibben, editor of a new anthology of nature advocacy.
Few now doubt global warming, though they disagree on the severity of the danger.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits with his mother Sara and his wife Eleanor in 1920. (Corbis Bettman)
How Roosevelt's lifelong affair might have changed the course of a century.
Amid economic woes, his flashy lifestyle and new celebrity wife add to his political troubles.
TO GO WITH AFP STORY US-EMPLOYMENT by Fanny Carrier Lilly Ledbetter is shown 25 January 2008 in front of the US Capitol in Washington,DC. Ten years ago, someone slipped an anonymous note into Lilly Ledbetter's locker and the tire factory worker learned that she was being paid less than her male counterparts who were doing the same work. Ledbetter took her case all the way to the US Supreme Court, but never received compensation. Today, she is leading the charge to change the laws that allow men to be paid more than women who do the same work. In 1979, Ledbetter was hired as a shift supervisor in a Goodyear tire factory in Gadsen, Alabama. She worked the night shift for nearly 20 years. Her strong work ethic gained her the respect of her subordinates. (Fanny Carrier/AFP/Getty Images)
At 70, Lilly Ledbetter is a powerful symbol in the fight against pay discrimination.
Men who were caught crossing the U.S. border with Mexico illegally wait in a holding cell on June 21, 2006 at the U.S. Border Patrol processing center in Nogales, Arizona (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Immigrants are now prosecuted instead of just sent home.
The nation's top military adviser has garnered respect for his quiet candor and his vocal concern for American troops.
Dairyman and raw milk producer Mark McAfee looks at one of his many free range, milk producing cows Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, at his dairy in Fresno, Calif. McAfee, owner of Organic Pasture, the largest producer of raw milk, may be hit with a new state law which essentially outlaws the sale of raw milk in Calif. (Gary Kazanjian/AP)
Supporters, citing the health benefits, challenge state bans on the sale of raw milk.
The U.N.'s António Guterres appeals to nations to help ward off hunger and political turmoil.
This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 photograph showing an anti-busing demonstrator attacking Ted Landsmark with an American flag at city hall plaza in downtown Boston, during the anti-busing dispute that struck the city in the 1970s. (Stanley J. Forman)
Louis Masur talks about the legacy of The Soiling of Old Glory, a picture that shocked the nation.
Like the individuals involved, the numbers can lie when it comes to sex.
Papal mass at nationals stadium. (Jim Lo Scalzo for USN&WR)
Pleased with the pontiff's response, victims now want the church to follow through.
A Q&A with South African Bishop and AIDS activist Kevin Dowling.
Workers bagging ears of corn from a giant stack of corn at a farmers' market in downtown Dubuque, Iowa. (Jim Lo Scalzo for USN&WR)
With crop prices at record highs, an important farmland conservation program is being threatened.
Much of the developed world envelops itself in nonstop illumination, blocking out stars and natural darkness.
A photograph of Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III taken during an interview with U.S.News & World Report after his release from captivity in Vietnam. (Thomas J. O'Halloran for USN&WR/Courtesy Library of Congress)
In this first-person account originally published in U.S. News in 1973, the eventual senator describes five harrowing years spent in captivity.
1897 --- A Puzzle. How Can McKinley Satisfy Ohio, And Still Have A Little Patronage Milk Left For Other Patriots Of The Country? (Corbis Bettmann)
Throughout history cartoonists' influence has varied, but the enduring trade lives on.
Washington Whispers by Paul Bedard (Joe Ciardiello for USN&WR)
This election is starting to look like a tragic play, one where the heart fights the brain.
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Workers stack papaya at the National Food Distribution Center in Heredia, Costa Rica, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The rising cost of petroleum have caused increases in food prices in Costa Rica. The U.N. will set up a top-level task force to tackle the global food crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
With prices around the world rising, the food crisis shows no signs of abating.
Rescuers carry an injured man from a collapsed building in Beichuan county. An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan and Beichuan counties of southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12, with the death toll expected to perhaps reach 50,000, according to Chinese officials. Unknown numbers of people remain trapped or missing. (Wang Jiaowen/AP)
A 7.9 temblor has left thousands dead and more missing.
A week of intermittent sectarian violence in Beirut has pushed the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. An antigovernment gunman, loyal to a pro-Syrian group, throws a molotov cocktail toward a TV-broadcasting building that was set on fire, engulfing a poster of slain former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. (Nasser Nasser--AP)
Sectarian Violence in Beirut has pushed the nation towards civil war.
Sunrise at Manzanar National Historic Site in California. (Kevin Horan/Aurora for USN&WR)
The remains of a site for Japanese- Americans during WWII stands tribute in the desert.
Michael Barone
It may not be realistic for Obama to declare victory after the May 20th primaries.
Bonnie Erbe
Don't be fooled by recent developments--the country is still conservative.
Marianne Lavelle. (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)
The price run-up was predicted months ago.
Mortimer Zuckerman
Israel is in a long-term struggle for its security in a region with virtually no margin for error.
50 Ways to Improve Your Life in 2008 (Travis Foster for USN&WR)
Here are some ideas to streamline, get in shape, organize your finances, and have a richer life experience.
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