Nick is chief content officer of WORLD and co-host for WORLD Radio. He has served WORLD Magazine as a writer and reporter, managing editor, editor, and publisher. Nick resides with his family in St. Louis, Mo.
On Washington Wednesday, Hunter Baker looks at the places where a free society can leave itself exposed. Also: Trump accounts and executive power, climate suits and federalism, and a lightning round on double-haters, permitting reform, and what happens when ideologues actually have to govern.
A borrowed magazine finally makes its way back to a New Hampshire library—132 years after it was due back. The timing, oddly enough, turns out to be excellent—right as the library tests a late-fee freeze.
Achieving “The American Dream”—Jack Pearadin’s name for his six-carat yellow diamond—took 12 years of digging, plenty of Arkansas dirt, and one very good $15 day.
Carrie McCall started her children with made beds and simple household jobs; now 14-year-old Lillian helps with the family farm. The jobs got bigger as the kids did.
David Bahnsen looks beyond the weak September jobs report headline and finds better news “under the hood.”
Katie McCoy talks about the challenge of explaining feminism, critical theory, and other heady ideas to teens. Also on Culture Friday: what the sharp drop in bisexual identification among ninth-grade girls may reveal about culture.
Kicker: About 30 yodelers in Graz, Austria, spent an hour roaming the city’s largest underground parking garage in search of the right echo, giving a tradition once used to send information from mountain to mountain an unlikely new venue.
Iran’s oil exports may be nearing zero—but not its lifelines. Former Treasury sanctions official Max Meizlish explains why China and harder-to-trace revenue streams could keep Tehran afloat even under Washington’s tightening economic pressure.
Moving day sent Lola under a floorboard—and eventually into a wall, where she spent five days and perhaps one of her nine lives trapped upside down. Veteran rescuer “Catman” John DeBacker finally cut her free.
The first of thousands of social-media addiction claims to reach trial ended with a $6 million verdict. WORLD legal correspondent Jenny Rough reports.
