All From the Editors
- CommentaryOcean Atlas: The girl who carries the ocean
CommentaryMartin and Coretta: A love storyA tribute to the couple’s love – for each other and for humanity – has arisen on Boston Common in the form of a 22-foot-tall bronze sculpture.
CommentaryWhat is progress, anyway?Points of Progress writer Erika Page reflects on lessons learned during her year on the Monitor's progress beat.
CommentaryThe Christmas that didn’t come from a storeMy mother loved giving gifts, and her generous heart just expanded every December. The family budget, however, did not.
CommentaryArt that honors women’s strength“Of Rope and Chain Her Bones Are Made” celebrates the handiwork that underlies the often invisible work associated with womanhood.
CommentaryAn appreciation of former Monitor Editor John HughesJohn Hughes won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Indonesia and went on to a career that spanned Voice of America and the Reagan administration.
CommentaryIn high court case, a delicate web of emotions"It’s about children, about child welfare. It’s about historical injustice and trauma,” our reporter tells the Monitor's Why We Wrote This podcast.
CommentaryMaking kindness a visible priorityDavid Clark Scott favorite stories were of people taking the time to help one another. On his last day of work, he was working on such a story. We picked up where he left off.
CommentaryHonoring the astonishing Mr. GouldLegendary Monitor essayist John Gould had known not one, but two veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg, and taught Stephen King all about writing.
CommentaryRemembering a 9-year-old’s pioneering stepConcerning discrimination against Mexican Americans, Mendez v. Westminster was cited as precedent in more well-known Brown v. Board of Education.
CommentaryPress freedom, democracy, and Fahad ShahKashmiri journalist Fahad Shah, editor of The Kashmir Walla newspaper and a Monitor contributor, remains behind bars.
CommentaryDriven to the frontlines by compassion“The Ukrainians didn’t ask for this,” Yankee Task Force volunteer Joshua Curry says in a telephone interview from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
CommentaryBear witness: Compassion at the forest’s edgeHow a Monitor photographer found herself feeding a wild black bear named Cedric while on assignment in Minnesota
CommentaryAn Afghan ‘voice for voiceless sisters’The Afghan women's national soccer team is thriving, in exile, as a special member of an Australian women's soccer league.
CommentaryAre public schools foundational to democracy?Americans are feeling buffeted by inflation and warring lawmakers. Many ignore news, and are disdainful of even the word “government.”
Commentary‘Grounded wisdom’ from courageous womenSamsara Duffey, a bit of a legend among habitués of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, is not famous. But she is inspiring.
CommentaryWhy my Hindi was a bit strange
CommentaryIndie booksellers answer their community’s callMore than 300 independent bookstores have opened in the last two years, according to the American Booksellers Association.
CommentaryFrom Roe to gun rights: How values translate – or don't – across the worldHow does the underlying value of "trust" shape citizen tolerance and intolerance of gun ownership and regulation?
CommentaryA lesson in courage from UkraineNelson Mandela once said, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
