2019 News of the Year
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Amid flood damage from hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, some big corporations are bankrolling a reportedly inefficient disaster relief organization—and discriminating against employees who support better options
DACA is a unique immigration problem only Congress can solve
Busy high schoolers today are skipping jobs, and not learning skills that steady work teaches
In a state known for legal assisted suicide, one terminally ill young woman instead chose to live each God-given day to its fullest
The travel guides hype Washington Square or Bryant Park as the best places to people-watch in New York City, but I’m going to give you a big tip: For my money, the best people-watching happens in the...
Next time you think things have gotten intolerably bad, and that the world is headed for hell in a handbasket, just think what things might be like if all decision-making were handed to today’s...
‘Anti-bullying bait and switch’ ...
The Bible says poverty comes upon you like a robber (Proverbs 6:11), but so does old age. Turn around and you lose your hair, you lose your balance, you lose your bladder control. Your sneakered foot...
Our Oct. 28 issue will contain a review of 22 books on Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, which began on Oct. 31, 1517. Many thinkers and writers during the past two centuries have...
That may be true for you . . . ...
Medicine
In our Oct. 14 print issue we run excerpts of an exchange of letters between two doctors, WORLD member Robert Berry and WORLD medicine correspondent Charles Horton. Below is the entire exchange. Drs....
Science
Medical researchers around the globe have sometimes killed tiny human embryos in order to harvest their stem cells. A seemingly ethical new technique for creating stem cells, described in Nature...
Lifestyle
HONG KONG—On Aug. 17, the Chinese government dropped all pretenses of allowing autonomy in Hong Kong by sentencing its first political prisoners in the former British colony: Joshua Wong, 20, Nathan...
Technology
In this age of texting and social media, kids get plenty of opportunities to write. But do they write well? A 2012 Department of Education report found that only 27 percent of 8th- and 12th-grade...
Movies & TV
Kids’ movies often avoid tackling weighty matters because of the intended audience’s immaturity. Such films typically settle for lessons like “The strongest weapon is inside you,” as Master Wu (voiced...
Movies & TV
A wild car chase through London streets in the opening scene of Kingsman: The Golden Circle thrills like a James Bond action sequence. But when a prosthetic arm, newly severed from its windshield...
Movies & TV
You have to wonder if the real Barry Seal was as likable as the new true-crime thriller, American Made, makes him out to be, or if it’s simply Tom Cruise’s toothy charisma that makes him seem so....
Music
It’s All Over Now ...
Movies & TV
I hope someday someone will make the movie that the trailer for Battle of the Sexes, the PG-13 sports biography starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, promises. ...
Children's Books
Mighty, Mighty Construction Site ...
Books
Whom to believe about the big event almost 2,000 years ago? J.R. Daniel Kirk acknowledges in A Man Attested by God (Eerdmans, 2016), “New Testament studies is in the midst of a resurgence of early...
Books
The Massacre of Mankind ...
Q&A
Mohammed S. Dajani heads Wasatia, a group of Palestinian Muslims who see Jews and Christians as their brothers and sisters and hope to work together with them for peace. While a professor of Al-Quds...
Music
On Sept. 8, emphysema claimed the country singer Don Williams. He was 78. ...