Beyond platform shoes
WORLD’s 2018 Books of the Year
Beyond platform shoes
WORLD’s 2018 Books of the Year
Convictions and consequences
The backstory of Isabella Chow’s stand for Biblical sexuality before the UC Berkeley student senate
Wizards and prophets
SCIENCE: Our book of the year shows a worldview clash
War on Poverty: Nearly Won (and Lost)
UNDERSTANDING AMERICA: Our book of the year focuses on the war for work
Voices
Marvin Olasky
Miles to go
Late in 1899 a magazine known as The Christian Oracle changed its name to The Christian Century. In January 1900, its editors predicted that “glory’s mantle shall enwrap the world, and golden years...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Calling Professor Corey
Not the least of the pleasures you missed if you are a millennial or a Gen Xer is “Professor” Irwin Corey, “World’s Foremost Authority.” And that is how he was introduced—on Mike Douglas’ daytime show...
The Editors
Mailbag
A House divided ...
Janie B. Cheaney
Chosen and hated
I don’t understand anti-Semitism, and don’t believe I’m afflicted with it. That’s no credit to me, any more than I should pat myself on the back for not having cancer. Anti-Semitism is a cancer, an...
Mindy Belz
‘Nobody can hurt me’
On the night before her final hearing before Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Asia Bibi had a dream. “I saw in a dream that all the doors of the prison are open,” she described, “and I’m worrying that if the...
Joel Belz
Sizing up our hearts
For a few hours on the morning of Nov. 7, things seemed remarkably and almost unbelievably tranquil. ...
Notebook
Politics
Power of the purse
When Yazidi advocate Pari Ibrahim goes back to the Yazidi refugee camps in the Kurdistan region in Iraq, the people always ask, “What did the U.S. say? What will happen now?” Four years ago ISIS...
Technology
English on the go
A new category of mobile learning apps seeks to help the large segment of the American labor force that struggles with literacy skills. ...
Lifestyle
Starting over
Gold paper stars hung from the rafters of the 1932 building in Chico, Calif., as Shawn Shingler gave a toast for his daughter’s wedding. ...
Science
Year-long tide
This month marks a full year that the noxious red tide, a harmful algae bloom that can kill fish and cause respiratory irritation in humans, has plagued the Florida coast. These algae blooms are...
Technology
Headset manuals
Building a spacecraft is not a job for mass production. Aerospace workers painstakingly assemble each spacecraft one at a time, traditionally following thousand-plus-page technical manuals. But...
Journals
Sophia's World
Family by tragedy
On Nov. 7, a man stormed into the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., a city 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and fired into the crowd, killing 13 people by the end of the night,...
Whirled Views
A Psalm for sorrows
Another outbreak of mass shootings in recent days, including an attack on a bar in Southern California that ended with 13 dead last week, leaves communities across the country lamenting life in a...
Metro Minute
Election consequences
A New York moment: ...
Snapshots of China
Protesting propaganda
As Western countries accuse China of indefinitely detaining 1 million Uighurs in its Xinjiang region, China continues to defend its action as a counterterrorism measure that has been misconstrued for ...
Metro Minute
The lost art of condolence
A New York moment: ...
Sophia's World
Hope for a homeless man
When I first started working on my series on homelessness, I remember walking the streets of downtown Los Angeles one night with a homeless man named Ronald, listening to him point out places that...
Culture
Children's Books
Proceed with caution
A Map of Days ...
Books
Science fiction novels
A Printer’s Choice ...
Books
From China to heaven
Two books worth reading side by side are Gideon Rachman’s Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline: From Obama to Trump and Beyond (Other Press, 2017) and Carl Minzner’s End of an Era: How...
Music
New or recent releases
She Remembers Everything (Deluxe Edition) ...
Music
Selective sets
One sign that gift-giving season has arrived is the release of critically acclaimed rock ’n’ roll albums in boxed, freshly remastered, multidisc editions tantalizingly marketed as the best-ever way to...
