Catastrophe upon catastrophe in Syria
A long war has left Syria ill prepared for COVID-19—and outside forces, including the United States, might be making the battle more challenging
Listening to the unheard
The news cycle is loud, but we need to hear those who can’t shout
A cultural genocide before our eyes
The Uighur diaspora is speaking out as family members disappear into reeducation camps in Xinjiang, but will the world listen?
Reasonable accommodation
The Americans With Disabilities Act, which turns 30 this month, steered Jim Terry toward a more accessible career
Houses of death
Small Belgium has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world, raising questions about restrictive protocols surrounding nursing homes
Voices
The Editors
Mailbag
2½ provocative books on abortion ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
One family’s corona story
"That the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed” (Luke 2:35). ...
Joel Belz
Not remotely fair
So if the highly regarded Wall Street Journal, in a lengthy and spacious front-page feature, proclaimed to the world that you had utterly failed when you recently took on the hardest challenge of your...
Janie B. Cheaney
Cheap knockoffs
God does not bodily descend into the world without changing it forever. Those who fear our culture is returning to paganism are wrong: Our culture is developing an uneasy mix of pagan worldview...
Marvin Olasky
The other America
On May 31, as protests and looting hit large cities and the airwaves filled with talk about the great need for racial reconciliation, I happened to be in Checotah, Okla. The city of 3,481 is the ...
Mindy Belz
Monday meals with neighbors
If you think about it, everything comes down to a meal. ...
Notebook
Lifestyle
God always provided
15th in a series on long marriages ...
Law
The trouble with traffic stops
Prosecutor Tom Kidd was working for the city of Dayton, Ohio, when he observed a troubling pattern in the cases that crossed his desk. “I noticed there were a lot of turn signal violations,” Kidd says...
Business
More than a pharmacy
They shattered display windows and the glass front door and rushed in, swinging crowbars and golf clubs, grabbing merchandise, and throwing chairs. Many of the hundred-plus looters made a beeline...
Lifestyle
Singing for the suffering
Like office workers across Europe, Luiza Chrzanowska found herself sidelined by COVID-19. A day job as an economist with the European Commission at its headquarters in Brussels turned into teleworking...
Culture
Music
Influences and impressions
John Zorn: Virtue by Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Gyan Riley: John Zorn’s latest guitar-trio compositions were inspired by Julian of Norwich, the medieval Christian mystic and anchoress of whom A.W....
Music
A little of everything
Coby James by Coby James: With John Mayer–level talent and similarly infectious bluesy pop-rock, the buzz around Coby James makes sense. The kid himself (he was only 17 when the album released) even...
Music
The Globetrotters’ magic
In 1970, the Harlem Globetrotters were at the peak of their popularity. Between the unit led by Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal and the unit led by Geese Ausbie and Marques Haynes, the roundball...
Children's Books
Lighthearted reads
The Little Blue Cottage by Kelly Jordan: All year long a quaint blue cottage on the bay sits unoccupied until a little girl and her family arrive in the summertime, filling the house with the smells...
Books
Journeys far and near
The Nesting Dolls by Alina Adams: The Nesting Dolls, out on July 14, is a fascinating multigeneration tale that moves from Stalin-era Siberia to Brighton Beach, N.Y., in 2019. The story focuses on the...
Books
Quests for integrity
Dan Crenshaw spent a decade as a Navy SEAL and lost a right eye in Afghanistan. He gained national celebrity in 2018 when a Saturday Night Live comedian made light of his sacrifice and Crenshaw showed...
Movies & TV
The Last Tree tussles with tough issues
Ah, the freedom of childhood: 11-year-old boys playing in mud, wrestling, out-bellowing each other, oblivious of skin color. ...
Movies & TV
Lots of action, little restraint
CIA operative JJ (a tough-looking Dave Bautista) doesn’t do subtle. In My Spy’s opening scene, he blows his mission by blowing up too many people. The violence is somewhat comical and artsy, but JJ...
Documentary
A delightful film journey
Think of actor David Suchet as a sort of Christian Rick Steves. With his 2015 documentary In the Footsteps of St. Peter, he guides us cheerily along the highways of the apostle’s life. He hits major...
Documentary
Dads is an unexpected Hollywood statement
At their finest, dads provide, protect, play, and model pious behavior. And then there are those moments when even the best fathers prove they’re oh-so-fallen. ...
Q&A
Walking in the dark
Dr. Eric McLaughlin is a family medicine doctor at Kibuye Hope Hospital in Burundi, where he has served with his wife Dr. Rachel McLaughlin, an obstetrician, for the last seven years. I spent several...
Movies & TV
Greyhound is almost A1 cinema
It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good. And the pandemic that exploded Hollywood’s traditional release model has acted as jet fuel to the expansion plans of streaming outlets. Case in point:...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Low-decibel thrills ...
Quotables
Quotables
“When is this gonna stop?” ...
Human Race
Court keeps DACA alive
Overruled ...
News
COVID-19 in the states
37 The number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 persons in the United States as of June 25, according to Johns Hopkins University. This gave the United States the seventh-highest rate of COVID-19 deat...