I offer you a summer reading list of books I am reading, or have read, from which you can choose something to enrich your understanding of the larger world.

The mounting evidence that the United States is rapidly becoming a biblically illiterate nation is no laughing matter

"Hundreds of millions of honeybees have vanished in 22 US states, leaving keepers financially crippled and jeopardising £8 billion [or $16 billion] of crops that needed insects for pollination" (The Times, Feb. 19, 2007).

In June 1967 the tiny nation of Israel crushed an attempted invasion by Egypt, Jordan and Syria in less than a week. Israel's complete military victory should have ended its security problems. But in the forty years since that conflict...

These days adultery is becoming big business in both America and Britain. According to the London Times, "Thousands of Britons have joined a [Web] site for the married but looking" (March 13, 2007).

Former Israeli general Uri Dromi sums up the current threats against the Jewish state.

A proposed American missile shield to be built in Poland and the Czech Republic is designed as a radar system and missile battery to counter projectiles from rogue countries like North Korea and Iran.

This is a special edition of Vertical News (April 17, 2007) written to address a recent shooting rampage on the campus of a university in the United States.

Americans don't like not knowing why they are hated around the world. Of course, the United States still has some nations as friends—chiefly among the English-speaking world, Israel and in parts of Northern and Eastern Europe. But the numbers are...

Humility says we should hesitate to follow our first impulse, instead seeking God's will through deliberative Bible study and prayer.

A union of 27 nations with nearly half a billion people should not be carelessly underestimated. Yet the lofty ideals of the EU founding fathers and those of Europe’s current leaders should sometimes be taken with a grain of salt.

Two hundred years ago, Great Britain became the first major nation to abolish the slave trade. By the end of the century slavery had been abolished around the world. Here is the remarkable story of the abolition of the slave...

The global impact of an international financial bust, from all stock markets crashing at about the same time, would seem unthinkable. Yet warnings flags are waving that just such a catastrophe might be possible.