A familiar name wins a divided Senate primary, and Hunter Baker weighs what carried Darline Graham across the finish line before turning to presidential power over voting and welfare reform at 30. In Afghanistan, women find one narrow economic opening under Taliban rule. Plus: an old railway comes back to life, a baby arrives riding shotgun, and Janie B. Cheaney makes room for silence.
Canada’s prime minister finds political upside in a trade war that may cost Canadians. License-plate cameras solve crimes while recording ordinary travel, and ranchers watch for a flesh-eating parasite America thought it had eradicated. Plus, Washington trades motorcades for IndyCars, and Disney borrows unlikely First Amendment precedents. In Oklahoma, freshmen pay a kiss toll before class to honor Mom and Dad.
On Legal Docket, possible costs became actual losses for eight Washington firefighters seeking religious accommodation. With the national debt at $40 trillion, David Bahnsen explains why Washington talks, but the bond market refuses to listen. Plus, the WORLD History Book lets Pompeii’s ruins speak again—and the Monday morning news.
On Culture Friday: John Stonestreet considers what the Lindsay Clancy trial is being made to say about motherhood. The Magic Faraway Tree invites families to rediscover wonder. Plus: theologian and artist Michael Milton shares three books that shaped his calling.
Ukraine’s drone war reaches deeper into Russia as faster attacks leave Kyiv residents less time to find shelter. Federal officials investigate questionable billing for transgender procedures on minors, and a longtime music publicist releases the songs he set aside for his family. Plus: police branch out against distracted driving, and David Closson considers how algae acquired a constituency.
Washington Wednesday: Hunter Baker weighs a socialist wave meeting a wall in Florida. Also: Colombia’s new president faces a deadly earthquake three days into office; and Christian actors navigate calling and conviction on Broadway. Plus: goats dodge a bus fare, and Cal Thomas remembers Chuck Colson’s prison legacy.
A China expert explains Beijing’s influence infrastructure; a surrogate mother defies intended parents who demanded abortion; and classroom phone bans may leave students still tethered to their devices. Plus: a bear honks for help before chewing up a car’s interior, Tim Mulgrew on Scripture as a living record, and Daniel Suhr on the malleable political center.
Legal Docket considers whether the government is assembling the case file before the allegation; David Bahnsen warns the populist right against reaching for the socialist left’s failed economic playbook; and the WORLD History Book revisits the theft that made the Mona Lisa immortal—plus the Monday morning news.
Culture Friday: John Stonestreet on whether recent wins for whistleblowers and religious liberty add up to real cultural change, two former NBA players pushing the WNBA to define what a "woman" is, and the University of Michigan's move away from letter grades. Plus, a review of the new Reagan drama The Brink of War, a preview of WORLD's new Doubletake series on Kayla Mueller, and the Friday morning news.
Iran's threats force a secret escape for President Trump and bring a wave of cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, WPATH backtracks on its own standards of care, and Britain's homeless population may be undercounted. Plus, a 102-year-old veteran who isn't ready to slow down, WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney on renewal without the church, a snake stowed away in a football helmet, and the Thursday morning news.
