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.
Researchers take home Ig Nobel Prizes for gently stepping on venomous snakes and confirming scientifically what generations of parents have known from experience: Babies smell better than teenagers.
An Ohio city’s cease-and-desist order stopped Daniel Grand’s Sabbath prayer gatherings. Mary Reichard reports on the case for this week’s Legal Docket.
David Bahnsen on August’s jobs numbers, why AI’s massive build-out ultimately depends on businesses turning the technology into real profits, and, for Labor Day, why productive work is rooted in the imago Dei.
After Gloria Steinem’s death at 92, John Stonestreet considers how she helped redirect feminism toward abortion and autonomy—and away from human dignity.
WORLD’s Hunter Baker on upheaval in the Army as weapons stocks run thin, the strange politics dividing labor over the AI data-center boom, and why Social Security reform remains Washington’s untouchable problem. And the lightning round: Venezuela oil, birth tourism, and a White House ballroom that may get built faster than the courts can stop it.
Tennessee has waived the $150 permit fee for pet raccoons, provided they’re non-native, legally obtained, and vaccinated. Wildlife officials remain unimpressed: cheaper does not mean advisable.
Venezuela’s interim president is reversing decades of Chavista hostility to American investment, but attracting wary Western investors could take years.
A Vermont woman is growing, harvesting, spinning, and weaving the flax for a dress she plans to make entirely by hand—slow enough that whatever is out of style now may be back by the time she wears it.
Colorado requires Catholic preschools that receive state funding to set aside religious standards even as secular providers may tailor enrollment to particular groups—a First Amendment conflict now headed to the Supreme Court. WORLD’s Mary Reichard reports.
David Bahnsen parses Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech—touching on forward guidance, labor markets, and the Fed’s responsibility for inflation
