Mary is co-host of The WORLD and Everything in It, and covers the arguments and decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court along with reporting on lower court disputes. She graduated from St. Louis University School of Law and practiced law before becoming a journalist. She graduated from the WORLD Journalism Institute in 2011 and holds a Master’s degree in Health Administration. Mary resides in the Ozarks with her husband and three dogs.
You don't have to believe in God to believe murder is wrong. But where did that conviction come from? Mary Reichard talks with Joel Alperson about the moral convictions we've inherited—and how little we may understand their foundations.
The Supreme Court is back for its 2026–27 term, and Mary Reichard, Jenny Rough, and Steve West preview cases ranging from climate policy and gun rights to immigration, religious liberty, property forfeiture, privacy, parental rights, and more.
AI systems can hack and cheat, and then cover their tracks. But whose fault is that? Lawmakers are asking who should answer for it: the developer, the user, or the company that built the system.
Kicker: Brazil has a thing for novelty candidates. There’s both an Obama and a Trump—“Plínio Trump,” sporting a blond swoosh of hair, an overlong tie, and American flags. This year’s ballot also includes “Mick Jagger,” “Tsunami Grandmother,” and “Samurai Taxi Driver.”
China expert Bonny Lin tells WORLD’s Mary Reichard why Xi is pressing for less U.S. support for Taiwan.
Yellowstone crews have pulled more than 280 hats from the park’s hot springs and geyser areas this year. The haul also includes sunglasses, camera-lens caps, pacifiers, AirPods, and six retainers.
President Trump’s new security agreement expands the U.S. military presence in Greenland, on top of long-held basing rights there. It leaves Greenland’s sovereignty intact and could close the door to Russian and Chinese investment in the island’s rare-earth resources.
Sen. Ron Johnson says his subcommittee found evidence that FDA officials shut down work that surfaced COVID-shot safety signals, a conclusion the panel’s top Democrat disputes. Sen. Johnson tells WORLD’s Mary Reichard what the surviving records show—and what may already be lost.
Alaska seized the airplane bush pilot Ken Jouppi used to make his living after he accepted a charter from a passenger transporting beer bound for a dry village. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines requires courts to weigh the offense in general—or Jouppi’s actual wrongdoing.
WORLD History Book: Congress in 1789 turned an outlined judiciary into an operating court system. WORLD’s Mary Reichard reports.
