A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Adoption under fire
During November, National Adoption Month, watch for noisy attacks on international adoption. Not getting as much attention: hundreds of thousands of dead orphans
Outside the camps
Syrians fleeing war in their own country find strife in surrounding nations, too
Legal entanglements
A land dispute embroils an international school that serves hundreds of missionary families in one of the most populous parts of the world
Salt over sugar
The digital revolution is helping to create a new age of Christian music
Voices
Mindy Belz
Give me your tired
The collective flotsam of wars and upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa is washing up on an unlikely place, the 8-mile-long Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. TripAdvisor named Lamp...
Sophia Lee
Saturday night on the 'L'
I grew up in Singapore, so I am always trying to learn about America. I learned much while interning for 12 weeks at The Chicago Tribune and taking a 45-minute ride on the “L” (Chicago’s nickname ...
The Editors
Mailbag
‘Uncommon uprising’ Oct. 5 A good article about yet another attempt to teach math in a “new” manner. There is a history of this sort of thing going back to the 1960s when young childr...
Marvin Olasky
Force-feeding propaganda
This is a story about two honest gay writers, Randy Shilts and Stephen Jimenez; about a victim/perpetrator of 20th-century plagues, Matthew Shepard; about propagandists, kids who crudely rebel aga...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Cease your sulking
I would like to talk about sulking. It is a poison you mix for another and drink yourself. It may be effective in making him miserable while he is in the room, but once he goes off to work, he wil...
Joel Belz
No phony foes
“To succeed in the magazine business,” a very wise man once told me, “you need to have a good enemy.” His own magazine enterprise was failing just then, and my friend told me he felt like the Marc...
Janie B. Cheaney
Broken music
In all the frustration surrounding the government shutdown and Obamacare rollout, we still had football. That’s one consolation, except for a very sad story that hit the airwaves in the middle of ...
Notebook
Lifestyle
Groomed for success
Tyrone looks older than his 44 years as he strokes the muzzle of a sorrel thoroughbred towering above him in a stall at South Carolina’s Wateree River Correctional Institution. “Blame” responds by...
Houses of God
Romar Beach Baptist Church
The Romar Beach Baptist Church in Orange Beach, Ala., held services on Oct. 6 despite declining weather as Tropical Storm Karen churned in the Gulf of Mexico. The $7 million structure, built yards...
Sports
More than a touchdown
The game between Poughkeepsie High School and Yorktown High School was officially over when referees added 30 seconds to the clock and the two teams lined up for one final play. The hometown team,...
Money
The new abnormal
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires publicly traded companies to make quarterly disclosures about their financial performance. In a purely efficient market, these data would tell...
Technology
Tracking tactics
Internet-based advertisers on your desktop computer, laptop, tablet, and smartphone would all love to get to know you. By noting what websites you visit, they hope to understand your tastes and in...
Science
Pills and bills
At annual meetings in posh hotels in Washington, D.C., beginning in 2002, two academics invited 30 or 40 federal regulators, pharmaceutical representatives, and researchers to sit down and discuss...
Religion
Broken fellowship
A former employee of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) has sued the ministry for wrongful termination related to her failed marriage. Alyce Conlon alleges that IVCF fired her for getting di...
Culture
Notable Books
Notable Books
Very young children typically start out with Bible storybooks rather than the real text, and My Very First Bible comes attractively slip-covered with My Very First Prayers. They are a handy size (...
Movies & TV
Frozen
Frozen, a Disney animated film for the upcoming holiday season (in theaters Nov. 27), will go in the file of Disney animated classics alongside other recent successes like Tangled. But even as it ...
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 ...
Q&A
Christians need not apply?
My column in WORLD’s Nov. 2 issue was about a crucial religious liberty battle now being fought out in both a court of law and the court of public opinion. Fox Sports in September fired football a...
Music
Don't be so predictable
MISS CYRUS: As the recipient of more open letters than anyone else in recent memory, the last thing you need is another one. Then again, the last thing the world needs is another album of r...
Books
America by threes
Because of a memory from 1970 I had to chuckle about the underlying premise of a provocative book, America 3.0, by James Bennett and Michael Lotus (Encounter Books, 2013). They say th...
Movies & TV
Witches' brew
On Oct. 25, New York magazine’s online entertainment outlet, Vulture, surprised broadcast industry watchers when it revealed that CBS is developing a remake of Charmed, the supernatural soap opera...
Movies & TV
Killing Kennedy
A mix of narrative and documentary that works better than it sounds, Killing Kennedy—premiering on National Geographic Channel Nov. 10—provides a tantalizing, if shallow, taste of history. ...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
Considering the gusto with which he throws himself into these original Southern Gothic country songs based on famous Bible heroes and villains, you’d never know that Everett no longer identifies (...
Dispatches
Looking Ahead
Looking Ahead
Nov. 13 Power companies, the federal government, and state governments will conduct an emergency drill today to test how the nation might respond to a major failure in the country’s power g...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Mostly cloudy It’s not hard to see how pollution is making life hard in one gritty Chinese city. In fact, it’s hard to see anything else. Officials in Harbin in northeast China shut down th...
Quotables
Quotables
‘This isn’t a gender studies class; it’s the real world.’ Liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus to feminists who attacked Slate columnist Emily Yoffe for advising young women not to...
News
Dispatches
OCT. 22: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, to receive the Sakharov human rights prize she won in 1990 at the height of th...
News
Plan obsolescence
Jim and Vicki White have spent about a decade paying $402 a month for a health insurance plan with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama. It carries a $5,000 deductible. But they recently received a l...
Human Race
Human Race
Overwhelmed Case workers received over 10,000 offers after Davion Only, 15, made a plea during a Sunday church service for a family to “love me until I die.” In foster care his whole...