A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
As police turn to facial recognition technology to identify suspects and solve cases, critics worry about privacy and false accusations
In Los Angeles, “defunding the police” led to disbanding a unit specially designed to help with homelessness
Donald Trump made gains among some Hispanic voters in 2020. Will the GOP continue the trend?
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Some trends are so evident that even I can't miss them. Chapter 9 of a book I wrote in the 1980s, Prodigal Press, has the title, "Network News and Local Newspapers: The Coming Economic Judgment." ...
It takes a governor, I've come to think, to make a competent president. You're not ready for the presidency until you've actually headed a government. Senators and congressman learn a few leadersh...
In 2001 a missionary spoke on her work with orphans, and my husband, Duncan, was wrecked for anything else. Within a year, he left the business world and founded Uganda Orphans Fund (UOF). ...
In this issue of WORLD are multiple examples of good ideas that help lift people out of poverty and anguish. Our neatly told stories, however, should not mask the long hours, hard work, and gifts ...
Brothers, can we talk about legalism? I wrote a blog sharing that God is teaching me to be careful with my mouth, and that there are no such things as inconsequential words. Then I was knocked off...
Cleaning time Perhaps the C Street house ("All in the family," Aug. 29) needs an old-fashioned, top-to-bottom house cleaning. Begin in the attic by sweeping out the cobwebs of intrigue and ...
When President Obama announced his intention to speak to schoolchildren, reaction was swift: Should we be worried that the kids are going to come home and demand their parents support the presiden...
Movies & TV
"Mrs." It's an honorific that's all over CBS' new show The Good Wife, and it's a sign of how much of a woman's identity is bound up in that one little word-how much security and yet vulnerability ...
Notable CDs
Subtitled "European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Era," this 20-song collection combines the talents of an exemplary 31-voice choir (the Cambridge Singers), an exemplary early-music ...
Notable Books
Lauren Weber's engaging survey of America's ambivalent relationship to thrift both entertains and provides food for thought. Her broad sweep takes in Benjamin Franklin, Booker T. Washington, world...
Movies & TV
John Keats wrote two things that never seem to work out when taken together: that a thing of beauty was a joy forever, never passing into nothingness; and that he feared he'd never see his love ag...
Movies & TV
It's not a good sign when, in a movie about the trials and tribulations of teens at a performing-arts school, the most interesting characters are teachers. Part of that could be blamed on the laug...
Movies & TV
When Mark Whitacre heard that Steven Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning director of Traffic, would be making a movie about his life and that chiseled Mr. Jason Bourne himself, Matt Damon, would...
Music
As the profits of the music industry continue their meteoric fall, the desperation of the measures taken by record companies to avert-or at least to cushion-the crash has become all but impossible...
Books
Thomas Sowell has for years been probably America's best writer on economics, particularly when that discipline intersects with politics. During the 1990s I used his book The Vision of the Anointe...
The Buzz
GOP front Who is an early frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination? Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, according to Christians and social conservatives attending the Values...
Quick Takes
Facebook folly, part 1 Rather than calling emergency services, two Australian children posted a cry for help on Facebook after getting stuck in a storm drain. The 10- and 12-year-old girls ...
Quotables
"It wouldn't be days. It would be hours." Somalian member of Parliament Asha A. Abdalla on how quickly the government would fall if the 5,000 African Union troops in the country were to lea...