The World and Everything In It

9.25 | Culture Friday: The school she chose

Fri » An elite journalist sent her daughter to a failing school for the “collective good.” John Stonestreet says the common good is not above those in it.  Also: Stonest

9.24 | Reading the red carpet

Thu » President Trump’s rare welcome for Xi Jinping is part of the diplomacy itself. China expert Bonny Lin explains why the reception matters. Also: Xi is pressing Pres

9.23 | Washington Wednesday: Trump at U.N.

Wed » Hunter Baker considers what President Trump’s U.N. speech reveals about his use of American power—and the principle behind it. Also: Baker turns to Xi Jinping’s Wa

9.22 | You can’t elect cheap

Tue » Affordability is becoming a midterm promise, but politicians can only shape the conditions behind prices — not simply command them lower.  Also: President Trump’s

9.21 | Seized livelihood

Mon » A bush pilot’s seized Cessna tests the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines at the Supreme Court. Also: David Bahnsen explains why the Fed’s rate hike mostly

DoubleTake: The face of God

Some people are insisting that the Shroud of Turin is physical evidence of the resurrection–what if it is? WatersEdge securities are subject to certain risk factors as d

9.18 | Culture Friday: Overclocked childhood

Fri » Kids caffeinate their way through exhaustion, while education tries to engineer the struggle out of learning. Also: John Stonestreet takes on cultural contradictio

9.17 | The return before goodbye

Thu » Some dying patients who could no longer speak or respond suddenly reconnect with loved ones. Terminal lucidity offers a glimpse of the mind at life’s edge. Also: S

9.16 | Washington Wednesday: Pressure test

Wed » Hunter Baker on the limits of U.S. leverage—from Iran and AI regulation to Canada’s turn toward Europe. Also: In Germany, the election winner may still remain outs

9.15 | Regulating in the dark

Tue » Washington debates how to regulate AI dangers no one fully understands—without slowing the race and handing China an edge. Also: Iran-backed Houthis squeeze a seco

9.14 | Reality acknowledgment

Mon » A professor parodies a school-endorsed land acknowledgment, is punished for it, and wins a First Amendment fight. Also: David Bahnsen says Vice President Vance’s $

DoubleTake: A few red flags

One Christian woman’s life on eggshells, whose longing for love drove her into some destructive relationships The Amplified Bible, from The Lockman Foundation, is design

9.11 | The day still speaks

Fri » Culture Friday looks back 25 years after 9/11—and considers what the day still reveals about truth, memory, and moral clarity. Also: John Stonestreet discusses the

9.10 | Grace at Ground Zero

Thu » Photographer Krystyna Sanderson captured St. Paul’s Chapel as a refuge for Ground Zero workers—and saw God’s grace in the devastation. Also: Russia tests NATO’s de

9.9 Washington Wednesday: Betting the midterms on Trump

Wed » Hunter Baker weighs Republicans’ gamble to make the midterms feel like a Trump election. World Tour follows Britain’s speech laws from a Facebook video to 17 days

Building what war destroys

Tue » Ukrainians build classrooms Russia may destroy, while a national struggle to fill paramedic jobs leaves one rural Michigan medic on duty for most of a 200-hour stre

The big chill

Mon » Legal Docket follows an Ohio homeowner who stopped gathering for Sabbath prayer after a city order—and lower courts said he still had more process to finish before

Systems at odds

A new book argues that classical Islamic law conflicts fundamentally with the U.S. Constitution on apostasy, due process, and the rights of women and non-Muslims. Mary Re

9.4.26 Gloria Steinem’s legacy, All the President’s Men, and whimsical inventions in everyday English

This week on Culture Friday, John Stonestreet moves from Gloria Steinem’s legacy and the baby bust to commercialized weddings. Also: half a century later, All the Preside

9.3.26 Flood-ravaged Nepal, a counterterrorism review, prenatal screening, and unconventional musicians

Collapsed roads strand thousands beyond easy reach in flood-ravaged Nepal, while a 25-year counterterrorism review asks whether America is ready for threats armed with dr