Blowing in the wind
From the Senate in the 1970s to the presidential campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden has a long record of going where political pressures push him—and right now they’re pushing him aggressively leftward
Minority opinion
Can Donald Trump gain enough black voters to make a difference in 2020?
2020 Children’s Books of the Year
A TIME FOR VIGILANCE: Children need their parents not only to guard against objectionable books but to promote good ones. The titles in the following pages are books to consider
Picture books
TURNING A SHACK INTO A HOME: Brightening colors help tell a story of hope amid tragedy
Novels
BECOMING A GENTLEMAN: How tragedy can produce an honorable young man
Voices
Joel Belz
Reforming Trump
To say that President Donald Trump marches to his own drummer is to cut off debate before it even begins. You may or may not like the way he’s gone about things—but either way, you’re pretty much...
The Editors
Mailbag
Buildings with baggage ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Not-so-great moments in history
Starting in September, New Jersey public schools will be teaching children in grades five, six, eight, 10, and 12 about the great historical contributions of LGBTQ people to United States history....
Janie B. Cheaney
How to ruin your life
Since joining Facebook about 10 years ago, I’ve collected a number of left-wing Facebook friends. Some I know personally, others only by casual friending sometime in the past. Though I seldom engage,...
Marvin Olasky
Misplaced blame
The Oscar festivities Sunday night included a commercial for the biggest historical gambit of the past year, the “1619 Project” of The New York Times. Princeton historian Allen Guelzo says it “is not...
Mindy Belz
While Washington fiddles
A column of Russian trucks rolled to the border with Ukraine on Feb. 5 as U.S. senators in Washington prepared to vote on whether to remove from office President Donald Trump. The Russian convoy...
Notebook
Lifestyle
God making up for us
(11th in a series on long marriages) ...
Education
Museums to visit—and avoid
Numerous Christian schools sent buses full of students to the March for Life in Washington, D.C., last month. Which museum on or adjacent to the National Mall had about 700 students lined up to enter...
Religion
Off to a bad restart
The story was sensational. A small, struggling congregation of some 30 elderly attendees is scheduled to close this summer, only to relaunch in the fall with a new, young pastor, new décor, and a new...
Sports
Twelve dogs and a sled
A dozen tense sled dogs strain at their harnesses, impatiently waiting with 13 other sled teams from the United States and Canada. Behind these 12 dogs, a musher wearing bib number 15 grins and...
Culture
Movies & TV
Problem of Evil
Does evil exist? Can science explain everything? Does prayer make a difference? In a siloed society, people with different worldviews rarely discuss these questions. CBS’ Evil (Season 1), a fresh...
Documentary
A Supreme view
Late in the new documentary Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words we see a bronze bust sitting high on a shelf in Thomas’ office. It’s of his greatest role model, his grandfather. And...
Movies & TV
Real unreality
The Man in the High Castle’s opening show in 2015 was Amazon’s most-watched ever. Viewers and critics relished the premise—an alternative reality where Germany and Japan won World War II—but after 10...
Movies & TV
It’s a problem over here, too
Sex trafficking isn’t just happening “over there” in Asia and Africa. Pimps, gangs, and relatives keep women and children in bondage in Atlanta, Las Vegas, and other cities and towns across America....
Documentary
“Go to the sound of the guns, go to the sound of need, and trust God”
In this year of the international Oscar, few feature-length award winners can boast the scope packed into Free Burma Rangers: The 97-minute documentary spans two decades in war zones 3,000 miles apart...
Books
From Calvin to Henson
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life by John Calvin: John Calvin first published The Institutes of the Christian Religion in Latin in 1536. Within these five chapters translated by Henry J. Van...
Books
Executive branch insight
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley walks a political tightrope in With All Due Respect (St. Martin’s, 2019). She writes of her relationship with Trump, “We didn’t always see eye-to-eye. Sometimes I...
Music
Back in time
Today Belongs to Me: Complete Recordings 1977-1980 by The Flys: The rewards of diving into complete-output excavations by long-defunct bands that never broke through seldom outweigh the effort. For...
Music
Peeks into deep mysteries
The reason that the English singer-songwriter Bill Fay descended into obscurity circa 1971 is that on neither of the two Deram albums that he had released up to that point (Bill Fay and Time of the...
Q&A
Don’t rock the boat ... just yet
Carol Tobias is president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). Here are edited excerpts of our conversation shortly before last month’s March for Life in Washington, D.C. ...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
“If the officials had disclosed information about the epidemic earlier, I think it would have been a lot better. There should be more openness and transparency.” ...
Human Race
Russians get a little too cozy out in space
Pursued ...
News
Comeback city
3 The number of games the 2020 Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs won in the postseason after trailing by double digits, an NFL record. The 2007 New York Giants came from behind to win four ga...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Equestrian pedestrians ...