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.
David Bahnsen explains why housing affordability now depends more on lower home prices, not lower mortgage rates. Also: why restricting diesel exports would backfire, and how AI’s power demands are strengthening the case for more energy infrastructure.
John Stonestreet on Nikole Hannah-Jones choosing the “collective good” over a better school for her daughter, Meryl Streep voicing Aslan, and kids and social-media status games.
Listeners tell us what stayed with them in September—from a family’s fight for a child with Trisomy 18 to the Shroud of Turin, an interview on Islam, and a Scripture reading that made one listener stop and reflect.
Hunter Baker considers whether President Trump’s assertive use of U.S. power adds up to a governing principle, what Xi Jinping wants from Washington, and whether campaign money still moves voters.
Fat Bear Week turns pre-hibernation eating into a spectator sport, with voters choosing which Katmai brown bear has packed on the most impressive bulk.
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.
At a Mississippi wildlife rescue, orphaned baby raccoons learn what their mothers would have taught them—how to swim, climb, forage, and recognize danger—before heading back to the wild, pampered along the way.
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.
David Bahnsen explains why the Fed’s rate hike mostly followed a market that had already tightened
John Stonestreet on kids caffeinating their way through exhaustion—and why the struggle of learning is part of education, not a defect to engineer away. Also: what clashing arguments about women reveal about the body, and whether Europe’s talk of “extremes” obscures the difference between Islamism and its critics.
