2019 News of the Year
Notre Dame on fire ...
Casting corporate bread upon the waters
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
Here to stay?
DACA is a unique immigration problem only Congress can solve
The disappearing teenage job
Busy high schoolers today are skipping jobs, and not learning skills that steady work teaches
Esther’s story
In a state known for legal assisted suicide, one terminally ill young woman instead chose to live each God-given day to its fullest
Voices
Mindy Belz
The healing place
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...
Joel Belz
Surveying our future
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...
The Editors
Mailbag
‘Anti-bullying bait and switch’ ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Real time
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...
Marvin Olasky
Kuyper’s manifesto
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...
Janie B. Cheaney
You better believe it
That may be true for you . . . ...
Notebook
Medicine
Doctor to doctor
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
A better stem cell
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
Beijing’s heavy hand
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
Smarter grammar?
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...
Culture
Movies & TV
Rebuilding a relationship
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
Not-so-crafty spycraft
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
Taking a flyer
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
Notable recent releases
It’s All Over Now ...
Movies & TV
Losing battle
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
Family story time
Mighty, Mighty Construction Site ...
Books
Religious propositions
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
Four science fiction novels
The Massacre of Mankind ...
Q&A
Speaking of peace
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
Assured and reassuring
On Sept. 8, emphysema claimed the country singer Don Williams. He was 78. ...
