Larry Flynt, who built a million-dollar empire around pornography, died Wednesday at age 78. He died in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his manager said.

How did he get started?  Born in Lakeville, Ky., Flynt had divorced twice by age 21 and eventually started his career by turning bars into strip clubs. He began to publish a newsletter about the clubs in 1974 that later grew into the explicit Hustler magazine.

In one sense, the Sack of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was the farce that launched 1,000 snips. 

Snip: “From years of covering white nationalists and the alt-right, I already knew that the right contained violent and anti-democratic elements,” Buzzfeed reporter Rosie Gray wrote. “What Jan. 6 showed was how deeply even the nice church ladies and retired grandpas who have nothing to do with those groups have descended into an alternate universe.” 

Since Amazon suspended the conservative-friendly social media site Parler, millions of users have tried out other Facebook and Twitter alternatives. In one week this month, the smaller social media platform MeWe added 2.5 million participants, bringing its user base to about 16 million, half of whom live outside the United States.

When Fox News called the swing state of Arizona early for Joe Biden on election night, upsetting President Donald Trump, smaller conservative media outlets smelled blood in the water. Jack Posobiec, the marquee anchor for the One America News Network cable channel, tweeted on Nov.

With the coronavirus, a presidential election, and racial tensions dominating the headlines in 2020, it is no surprise that stories related to those topics dominate the Top 25 countdown of the best read articles and columns on WORLD’s website this year.

Click the headline links below and take a trip back through the past 12 months of WORLD’s Biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.

When I worked on The Boston Globe 50 years ago, revered columnist George Frazier loved to play off a popular saying by writing, “One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.” Today, Biblical literacy is rare and a meat-and-poison allusion that legitimates contrary opinions is culturally cancellable. 

A few years ago, I wrote that WORLD Magazine was a journalistic offering that faced the tension of being sometimes wide and sometimes deep. A biweekly newsmagazine—with the resources God had given us—could not cover the entire scope of reality or staff bureaus in every major city around the globe. So I wrote that we as journalists had to make judgments about how deep, or how wide, we would go in each article of each issue.