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The article focuses on the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative Christian legal organization that has achieved significant success in recent years, highlighting its winning fourteen Supreme Court victories, such as overturning Roe v. Wade and the various legal battles. Topics include the issues related to abortion, religious freedom, and LGBTQ+ rights.

BLACK WAVESaudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle EastBy Kim Ghattas Ayatollah Khomeini raised no objection when Salman Rushdie's 1988 [...]

The article talks about a smear campaign to destroy the commodities-trading business Lord Energy founded by Hazim Nada. Topics include the commodities shipped by Lord Energy, its annual revenue and business expansions, Hazim's family background, a deceptive call received by Hazim in 2017 requesting banking information about Lord Energy, an article published in 2018 claiming that Lord Energy was a cover for a Muslim Brotherhood cell and the cease of its operations as the result of the campaign.

Last January, New York publishing houses received a pitch for an unusual ''fictionalized'' memoir. It was a prison book, written by an inmate serving a 2-to-12-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter [...]

On a September afternoon, about 60 prominent Christians assembled in the library of the Metropolitan Club on the east side of Central Park. It was a gathering of unusual diversity [...]

The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, [...]

CRUNCHY CONS How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or at [...]

SAM PATCH, THE FAMOUS JUMPER By Paul E. Johnson. Hill & Wang, $23. Sam Patch may have been the first precursor to MTV's ''Jackass.'' For a few years ending in [...]

At 10:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, my voice mail recorded an anxious phone message -- an ex-girlfriend of a decade ago calling from upstate to see if I [...]

Thomas Middelhoff, chairman and chief executive of the media giant Bertelsmann, kicked off his crusade to save Napster on the afternoon of Oct. 31 last year in the ballroom of [...]

Fall From Glory The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy. By Gregory L. Vistica. Simon & Schuster, $27.50. Gregory L. Vistica, the reporter who broke the story of the Tailhook [...]

A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999. By Michael Korda. Barnes & Noble, $20. As a young editor, Michael Korda spent Wednesday evenings crowded into a colleague's office, sipping [...]

The article reports on the violent military crackdown in Egypt wherein its first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi was ousted, and has raised big questions about the Arab Spring which gave Middle East its democracy. It mentions that the attack shocked both Egyptians and the international community. It notes that the U.S. condemned the violence and is considering cutting the $1.5 billion in military and economic aid it gives to the country.

Features Lewis Katz, the co-chairman and principal owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Information on the team; Career background of Katz; Comments from Katz's friends.

Examines the influence of Wall Street on the economy of New York. Fourth quarter bonus payments of Wall Street in 1999; Symbol of New York City's rebirth; Factor that contributed to its growth in employment; Figures on brokerage firms spending accounts from 1995 to 1998.

The article reports on the airstrikes committed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and allied coalition against the loyalists of President Muammar Qaddafi in Libya.

The article speculates on the future of Egypt after the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Some writers feared that some Egyptian generals may want a Mubarak-style of government without Mubarak. Israel and Saudi Arabia worry about radical Islamists seizing power and hijacking the revolution. The article also mentions that Egyptian youth used social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to organize and to let the world know about their demands.

The article offers updates on the television network Al Jazeera in Qatar.

Reports on the lawsuit filed by Newmark & Company Real Estate against Flatiron Partners which used the Flatiron building's appearance in its logo. Reaction of Jerry Colonna, co-founder of Flatiron Partners on the lawsuit; How the dispute began.

Features the Arts & Letters Daily Web site developed by Denis Dutton. How the Web site got started; How the site describes books; Publications that have offered to buy the Web site.

Looks at how Arthur Levitt, chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission uses his spare time. Internet auction site that Levitt usually visits; Comments from Levitt about information from the Internet; Survey of eBay trading partners.

The article focuses on federal prosecutors scrutinizing interactions during Donald J. Trump's campaign, including Paul Manafort's inquiry to Thomas J. Barrack Jr. about running an energy policy speech by Middle Eastern contacts. Topics include allegations of potential violations of disclosure laws regarding foreign influence over Trump's campaign and early administration, with Barrack being interviewed by prosecutors as part of the investigation.

Provides individual stories relating to the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States. Reaction by Pakistani man, Abdul Sattar Shah, the general secretary of Peshawar's branch of the Islamic Jamaat Tulba; View of U.S. President George W. Bush as a father figure during this time of tragedy; Soldiers' outlook on possible repercussions; Speculation on possible suspects in attack; Others.