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.
Pink Floyd, Psalm 90, and a medical wake-up call sharpen the urgency of an old prayer
Washington Wednesday: Hunter Baker on why military pressure has not brought the Iran war to a quick end, whether AI regulation could wind up protecting market leaders from challengers, and whether U.S. pressure on Canada is pushing Ottawa closer to Europe. Plus: the cost of Texas, the child tax credit, and Missouri maps.
Kicker An escaped emu sends police in Ramapo, New York, on a neighborhood chase, with a drone overhead and officers closing in below—until an officer finally lassos the flightless fugitive and returns him to the petting zoo.
Interview: From Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s warnings about rogue AI agents to warnings of human extinction, fears about artificial intelligence are escalating. Former FTC chief technologist Neil Chilson argues for accountability without pretending government can write a safety checklist for risks no one yet fully understands.
Kicker: Girl Scout cookie season has gone to the dogs. With fewer American households raising children and pet ownership climbing, the Scouts are introducing blueberry-muffin-flavored Patch Pals for a growing four-legged market.
When University of Washington professor Stuart Reges parodied a school-endorsed land acknowledgment, school officials removed it and investigated him. After a federal appeals court ruled the university violated the professor’s First Amendment rights, the school settled. WORLD legal-affairs correspondent Mary Reichard explains why dissent is not disruption.
David Bahnsen on Vance’s $9,000 benefit for married families, Trump’s $5,000 dividend, and what 9/11 teaches investors about resilience.
John Stonestreet on what 25 years since 9/11 reveal about the worldviews through which we see reality—and why more information doesn’t necessarily bring us closer to truth. Also: the conspiracy theories that have persisted in the year since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and how abortion culture pushed Cora, Dawson, and Callan to the margins of their own murder case.
WORLD’s Hunter Baker on the GOP’s midterm convention bet, an emerging Vance agenda, and how post-9/11 unity helped seed today’s political division.
Security video catches a black bear wandering into a Colorado Springs fire station, helping itself to a firefighter’s gear bag, and casually walking back out—leaving the crew to wonder what exactly it planned to do with it. The firehouse dubbed him “Smokey Bear.”
