A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Double jeopardy
Arrested, tortured, and imprisoned in China, activist attorney Chen Guangcheng discovers escape to America can lead to more threats and intimidation
Remembering The Forgotten War
On its 60th anniversary, aging veterans make their final plea for Americans to remember the fruit of the Korean War, and their sacrifices
A place at the table
In New York City elections this year, Christian leaders believe they can't afford not to run
Free retainer
Midwest Regional winner: In Illinois, Administer Justice helps the poor get their day in court
Voices
Mindy Belz
Dear reader
This week someone sent me a photo of a woman poolside in her bathing suit reading WORLD magazine. It was heartening, especially because that reader is a busy mother of many children. But for a mom...
The Editors
Mailbag
‘Making tracks’ June 29 I was glad to see the review of Escape from North Korea about the underground railroad. When we lived in Seoul in 2006 we heard that about 1,000 North Koreans ...
Marvin Olasky
Don't ignore the axioms
Chapter 2 of Genesis describes two special trees that stood in the Garden of Eden: The tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Before they sinned, Adam and Eve had permission...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Cut it off?
Jesus is so serious about you getting the sin out of your life that he says to cut off the offending appendage if you cannot master it: “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and...
Joel Belz
From politics to education
“Please,” a loyal WORLD reader begged me last week. “Can’t you guys ever get off the politics thing, quit criticizing President Obama, and devote at least a page or two to something more positive?...
Janie B. Cheaney
Not only in Vegas
Here’s what happened in Vegas: shortly after we checked into our hotel, the room phone rang. After I picked it up and said “hello,” a man started talking. Within a couple of sentences I realized I...
Notebook
Sports
Old men can win
New York Yankees legendary closer Mariano Rivera made his 13th and final All-Star Game appearance July 16, pitching a perfect inning and winning the Most Valuable Player trophy. As Rivera walked o...
Technology
Airborne scoops
Rubber bullets and tear gas canisters weren’t the only things flying above Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, during early June protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. While riot police fo...
Science
Liver delivery
Will the future of medicine involve replacement organs for livers, kidneys, or even hearts? New research from Japan increases the likelihood. For the first time, scientists say they’ve grown three...
Lifestyle
Roaring lambs
Talk about a counterculture: 41 young men and women recently attended the fifth annual It Takes A Family (ITAF) conference to learn how to support traditional marriage. It’s not the usual c...
Houses of God
Hagia Sophia church
Hagia Sophia church in the Black Sea city of Trabzon is one of the most important examples of Byzantine architecture, but authorities in Turkey recently declared the building a mosque, covering it...
Culture
Notable Books
Notable Books
While John Adams is a household name, most Americans aren’t as familiar with his son, John Quincy Adams. In fact, the story of the second Adams’ virtual exile to Russia as foreign minister and his...
Movies & TV
Box Office Top 10
Cautions: Quantity of sexual (S), violent (V), and foul-language (L) content on a 0-10 scale, with 10 high, from kids-in-mind.com S ...
Movies & TV
The Conjuring
A few days before seeing The Conjuring, the R-rated horror movie that became a bona fide blockbuster in its opening weekend, I happened to read Acts 19. In that chapter, a group of Jews attempt to...
Movies & TV
Turbo
Want to know if a kids’ movie is worth its salt? Take a few children to see it and watch their behavior. If they’re engaged for 90 minutes, laugh at the jokes, gasp at the moments of terror, and c...
Q&A
Show them the money
Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of National Review, grew up in Kansas City, graduated summa cum laude in history from Princeton, and co-authored The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Cou...
Music
Working man
He has sold over 16 million albums and landed atop Billboard’s jazz chart more than any other performer. So if anyone could coast these days, it’s the 44-year-old, New Orleans-bred, pop-jazz singe...
Books
A reporter who loves
Forty years ago, on Aug. 15, 1973, U.S. military action in Vietnam officially ended. That was the last time Washington, paying little attention to conditions on the ground, was decreeing an end to...
Movies & TV
Cedar Cove
With over 170 million books in print, Debbie Macomber has proven that when it comes to romance stories, the word “romance” doesn’t have to equal “sleazy.” And she isn’t afraid to reveal to s...
Theater
Hymns on Broadway
NEW YORK—I haven’t seen Kinky Boots, the hottest show on Broadway, but I would guess that its Broadway neighbor Trip to Bountiful is its opposite in style and substance. Bountiful lac...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
Forget the Fugs: Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were the real utopian folk hippies of the mid-to-late 1960s. Rooted—indeed, entangled—in a mélange of medieval minstrelsy, syncretic mysticism, and...
Dispatches
Looking Ahead
Looking Ahead
Aug. 4 President Barack Obama’s 52nd birthday will come at a less stressful time than did his 51st birthday a year ago. During his 2012 re-election bid, the President squeezed in a round of...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Stranded Star On their way to a Dave Matthews concert in Hershey, Pa., on July 13, Emily Kraus and her boyfriend almost passed by the stranded bicyclist. Thinking better of it, the two stop...
Quotables
Quotables
‘We risk having a generation that hasn’t held a job. Personal dignity comes from working, from earning your bread. Young people are in a crisis.’ On his first overseas trip as head of ...
News
Muddied waters
Following the Supreme Court’s rulings on gay marriage, the American Civil Liberties Union has begun filing lawsuits—many lawsuits. With a swell from the legal victory in the United States v...
News
Dispatches
IT’S A BOY: Prince William and his wife Kate with their newborn son depart London’s St. Mary’s Hospital on July 23. Wednesday, July 10 High unemployment June’s unemployment remained stu...
Human Race
Human Race
Delivered A Pakistani teen shot in the head for advocating for girls’ education delivered an articulate speech to the UN Youth Assembly on July 12—her 16th birthday. The Taliban shot Malala...