All From the Editors
- CommentarySurviving a mission of self-worth
What happens when the value of an individual or a group is not acknowledged? What happens when the yearning to be understood is not met?
- CommentaryKeeping abreast of the times
One major question we’ve been hearing from readers is, what is the relationship between the Weekly and the Daily?
- CommentaryA hands-on view of education
When education becomes one-size-fits-all, it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.
- CommentaryAddressing concerns about our new website
- CommentaryA different way of doing journalism
What the world would most miss if the Monitor were to vanish, we believe, is its completely different way of seeing the news.
- CommentarySagebrush renaissance
All sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds. They are the vehicle by which important but competing claims can find balance.
- CommentaryWho is ‘us’?
By some important measures, the boundaries around whom we accept as part of “us” are particularly rigid at the moment.
- CommentaryClimate change, and common-sense politics
People who had almost no interest in global warming became involuntary pioneers of a green revolution, moved not by soaring rhetoric, but by common sense.
- CommentaryAmerica’s other refugees
Regardless of Trump’s policies, it is important to understand why his words resonate – and to acknowledge that, in many cases, the problems they are bringing to the surface point to people who feel left behind.
- CommentaryNot settling for ‘good enough’
How often, as a society, do we settle for imperfect solutions?
- CommentaryThe persistence of progress
Amid war and terror, famine and plague, The Monitor's confident hope in telling the world's story endures.
- CommentaryThe pure spirit of science
Science isn't about putting any nation first. It is about putting humanity's quest for knowledge first.
- CommentaryThe value of striving for truth
Journalism can upset and disappoint. But there's no alternative to people who dedicate themselves to seeking truth and establishing facts.
- CommentaryWhat defines a leader most
From Russia to the Philippines and beyond, strong leaders have become popular. But that sort of strength can be ephemeral.
- CommentaryA powerful incentive to integrate
Continued progress toward school desegregation works best when it is not just a social good but a practical good for students.
- CommentaryWhat decides a claim on land?
As solid and grounded as the Israeli settlements on the West Bank look, Israelis have never been the land's only inhabitants.
- CommentaryAdaptation, and loving care
A little more care of our constantly changing planet would make adapting to those changes less difficult.
- CommentaryThe power of peer to peer
By choice or necessity, lay members of many Protestant denominations are stepping into roles traditionally reserved for clergy.
- CommentaryLearning to leave no one behind
Long may may local color and regional diversity wave. But when it comes to education, local must never mean less than the best.
- CommentaryAfter populism's bold promise
The politicians who have ridden today's wave of populist discontent to power now enter the next, more difficult chapter: governing