All From the Editors

Nelson Mandela once said, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“There’s this whole community, a society that exists in both (the United States and Canada) and transcends the border in a lot of ways."

Joaquin Ciria spent 32 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. On the day he was set free, it was almost too much to take in.

Good biographies can serve as inspiration, giving readers a front-row seat on another person’s struggles.

Is America is a political prize to be fought over? Or rather, is America an idea to be fought for? Lucy Harper asks Americans to consider the latter.

When an antisemitic slur cut through the night, Rabbi Litvin might have been forgiven for responding with a rebuke. Instead he opened a dialogue.

In reality, Americans’ views on abortion are complex. A majority support federally guaranteed access – but with limits.

When white-collar workers are increasingly untethered to the office, cities need to be more than skyscrapers. They need to be livable.

“People hear my accent immediately,” says Anastasia Chukovskaya. “There’s a pause when they hear I was born in Moscow.”

For Maria Deskur, CEO of Poland’s Universal Reading Foundation, giving books to Ukrainian refugee children an urgent priority.

Each time Fahad Shah would make bail, he would be immediately rearrested on a new charge. Now, he's in jail under under “preventive detention."

Her Chicago neighborhood has seen better days. But Shay Knox doesn’t want to move somewhere else – she wants to build a better community.

The British had taken the subcontinent by force. Was it not right, many Indians asked, to retake it by force?

The scenes from the war in Ukraine seem an assault against humanity. But lessons from the Cold War show humanity’s resilience and power.

A Monitor reporter shares how his Ukrainian father’s experience shapes his coverage of the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Rich, complex Native American societies offer a rebuke to the idea that civilization can only thrive at the expense of the environment. 

The arrest of Fahad Shah sends a harsh message to other Kashmir journalists, one observer says. Journalists globally face rising threats. 

Does a monthlong focus on Black history make that material more or less likely to be recognized as American history year-round?