All The Monitor's View
- Africa’s deep think in being an AI leader
Young people are generating advances in artificial intelligence to ensure Africa is an equal partner in the new digital innovation.
- Lifting a hurdle to a welcome home
California rescinds housing laws that discriminate against people previously incarcerated as part of a broader shift binding rehabilitation to individual dignity.
- India’s new cadres of equality
As women become a powerful voting bloc, they are instilling new democratic norms through a grassroots activism of substance over symbolism.
- A West African response to graft
Sierra Leone’s progress against corruption shows when governments pledge honesty, ordinary citizens become a force for integrity.
- Classroom lessons in discerning truth
Folding media literacy into public school curricula, U.S. states see a way to defend democracy from disinformation.
- Songs of beauty amid war
Around the world, societies are pushing back against conflict and repression through musical affirmations of innocence.
- The glue of seeing good
Surveys show a breadth of spirituality binding Americans to each other in connections of empathy and affection.
- Europe’s new wecome mat
A Continental framework seeks a more compassionate response to migrants that reinforces the rule of law and individual dignity.
- Recognitions for peace in Gaza
A rejection of violence by emerging Israeli and Palestinian leaders hints at a shared security set on renewed democracies.
- Reshaping a region with trust
The changes sweeping across Latin America reflect the work of citizens seeking equality and honest governance through democratic participation.
- Healing a river with eddies of trust
California’s new plan to decrease the water it draws from the Colorado River rests on selfless gestures for the common good.
- Driving openness in China
A small team of auditors sends a big message to Beijing that prosperity among nations rests on universal values like transparency and rule of law.
- A ruling for ruling better
South Africa's Constitutional Court upholds the dignity of innocents as a prerequisite for democratic governance.
- Building beyond carbon
Architects are responding to climate change with designs for thriving communities based on meeting needs through local values.
- Freedom of speech that starts with listening
The war in Gaza is prompting universities around the world to defend a pillar of democracy with the shared values of coexisting faiths.
- Ukraine vanquishing the other enemy
Examples of selflessness, especially in curbing corruption, not only aid the war effort but also may help Ukraine join the European Union.
- A lesson in peaceful listening
East African leaders are building a pathway to peace in Sudan through patient diplomacy based on trust-building and compassion.
- An invisible force in the Israel-Hamas war
Those who represent international humanitarian law are on the ground in helping restrain the fighting and protect the innocent.
- Chile’s patient shaping of a constitution
Voters in one of Latin America’s stablest countries seek a new legal code based on justice and equality.
- Limitless thinking in climate talks
A U.S. plan for the world to pool efforts on commercialized fusion energy will help alter the tone on solving climate change.