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Mon » Legal Docket · An election-law expert’s love of liberty began with parents who escaped tyranny.

Also: On Moneybeat, David Bahnsen asks what consumer-confidence surveys really tell us. Plus: tariff relief in Maine, France’s debt corner, and California’s wealth tax. WORLD History Book: The Statue of Liberty at 140—and how an abolitionist monument became an icon of immigration.

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Fri » Culture Friday · John Stonestreet calls disputed reporting on Elisabeth Elliot “flat-out slander.”

Also on Culture Friday: the return of woke ideology and Cornell’s attempt to regulate a campus culture that has rejected sexual restraint. Film: Steve Limkeman compares two alien-encounter movies with very different views of providence. Plus: George Grant asks pastor John Currie what Calvin, Lloyd-Jones, and Ron...

Thu » A Cuban who lived through the revolution tells American schoolchildren: “Within days food began to disappear. People began to disappear.”

Also: In Idaho, a pastor finds his Kansas abortion fight waiting for him back home. Former Ambassador Sam Brownback explains how his religious-freedom organization lost its bank account, and Daniel Darling urges Christians to steward their citizenship. Plus: Christian metal meets...

Wed » El-Sayed turns Muslim Brotherhood questions to his advantage. On Washington Wednesday: Democratic Socialists’ demands, Sen. Slotkin’s dark warning, Trump vs. Vance on Netanyahu, disappearing Senate debates, and the Medicare for All fine print.

Also: Israel faces its first national election since the October 7 attacks, but there's still been no official inquiry into the security failures. Two estranged daughters ret...

Tue » Most American workers struggle to find purpose in their jobs. WORLD’s Lauren Smyth explores why.

Also: A former Treasury official worries Washington is giving up too much leverage against Putin in pursuit of cheaper diesel. Scientists compete for new research money as the White House seeks more say over grants. American families discover that homeschooling freedoms don’t necessarily travel overseas. Plus: Paris bur...

Mon » Moneybeat · Banks turned away customers over their beliefs. David Bahnsen says engagement got the job done.

Also: Legal Docket follows two fights to get before a judge. An AI skeptic joins the investment crowd he once warned against. And a little girl who survived polio grows old with a breathing machine she couldn't live without.

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Fri » On Culture Friday, John Stonestreet recalls how legalism burdened homeschool families with rules God never commanded.

Also: Marvel’s VisionQuest brings back an android who can’t quite figure out who he is—or how to live with losing someone he loves. And British pop star Bob Stanley is still making mixtapes, rescuing songs you may have heard years ago without knowing their names.

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Thu » Paramount won Warner Bros. but inherited $80 billion in debt. Now Hollywood’s newest giant needs box-office hits. Fast.

Also: Dennis Prager on finding gratitude after paralysis. In Iran, a woman who celebrated the Shah’s overthrow is still fighting the regime that replaced him. A new film takes Facebook to task while giving less attention to harms to children. Plus: Democratic governors break with teachers’ u...

Wed » Washington Wednesday · Americans resist higher fuel prices over Iran yet expect sacrifices to keep pressure on Russia. Hunter Baker explains why.

Also: World Tour follows Nicaragua’s ruling couple as they move to eliminate elections and keep power in the family. In rural Illinois, firefighters struggle to keep ambulances running. Plus: a truckload of fries goes up in smoke, and Cal Thomas asks what happened to the Americ...

Tue » A man posing as a college girl blackmailed Gavin Guffey. After Gavin took his life, the scammer turned to his family.

Also: Secretary of State Marco Rubio goes to Greece to argue the West has forgotten what made it strong. Hundreds of thousands are taking to the streets over France’s schools, even as heavy spending and mounting debt leave the government with fewer good options. Plus: Civil War whiskey bottles beneath the...

Mon » Legal Docket · Boulder wants oil companies to pay for climate damage. Could one county’s lawsuit end up shaping national energy policy?

Also: David Bahnsen explains why the tech giants helping drive interest rates higher are still where investors go for shelter—and why diesel remains scarce even as crude oil moves again. Plus: a veteran of the Great War makes a little room for laughter, and Winnie-the-Pooh turns 10...

Dennis Prager’s latest book argues that without God, good and evil are only matters of opinion. WORLD’s Mary Reichard talks with Joel Alperson, who helped Prager develop If There Is No God, about why Christians and Jews should make a reasoned case for biblical values with confidence.

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Fri » Consent is supposed to settle the question. But the disturbing allegations at Cornell University expose how much that leaves unanswered, Katie McCoy says.

Also: A new women’s movement declares independence isn’t nearly enough, and a Canadian grandmother faces a heartbreaking decision about her own life. Plus: Zachary Levi gets a shot at redemption in a remake of John Wayne’s Angel and the Badman, and George G...

Thu » Is your phone listening? Maybe. But advertisers have other ways of knowing what you want. 

Also: A new school-choice law has even some of its opponents figuring out how to make it work. Washington reverses course on power-plant emissions, while Mary Reichard asks Dennis Prager collaborator Joel Alperson where our sense of right and wrong comes from. Plus: a construction crew hires a kitten, and Daniel Suhr says the scarie...

Wed » Hunter Baker looks at how the seams of a free society can leave it exposed to enemies intent on exploiting them.

Also: Iraq faces its own test after the last U.S. troops leave, and a Messianic Jewish congregation marks Yom Kippur with the assurance that atonement has already been made. Plus: a magazine 132 years overdue, and Cal Thomas on the answer Jim Bakker gave him about where things went wrong.

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Tue » Pete Hegseth says changing military culture requires changing who leads it—and he’s reshaping the force around that conviction.

Also: In Brazil, conservative Flávio Bolsonaro heads into the runoff ahead of leftist President Lula da Silva. Analyst Gil Guerra says Washington’s help may actually have made Bolsonaro’s job harder. Plus: children growing into real work, Samuel Alito in his own words, a six-ca...

Mon » The Supreme Court opens its 2026–27 term. Mary Reichard, Jenny Rough, and Steve West size up the docket.

Also: On the Monday Moneybeat, David Bahnsen looks beyond the weak September jobs report headline and finds better news “under the hood,” explains why bond yields are rising for reasons many financial journalists miss, and why a widening wealth gap tells us nothing about how everyone else is doing. Plus: t...

Fri » The AI Doc asks whether AI will save humanity or destroy it. Collin Garbarino says the film doesn’t push back hard enough.

Also: Culture Friday with Katie McCoy, who talks about the challenge of fitting feminism and critical theory into five-minute lessons for teens. Plus: Arsenio Orteza talks with Tree63 founder John Ellis about the hit fans waited for before heading for the exits, the industry’s win-at-all-costs ...