All The Monitor's View
- A new climate of trust-building
Spurred by overlapping global challenges, humanity is finding innovative pathways to cooperation and unity.
- What a ban reveals in Afghanistan
The Taliban’s latest moves to restrict female freedom and education highlight the aspirations they cannot repress.
- Tenets of good in helping unhoused people
Federal and city officials are looking for solutions to homelessness. For one housing developer, renewing communities and individual lives starts with empathy.
- Africa's new era of humble leadership
The public’s demand for honest government is reshaping a continent beset for decades by corruption and misrule.
- The panic that wasn’t
In their honesty about what it will take to tame inflation, the world’s central bankers have helped keep consumer expectations aloft.
- Sunlight on the trading floors
Proposed rules affecting how stocks are bought and sold offer an opportunity to strengthen the public’s trust through increased transparency.
- A prod for honest governance
An alleged bribery plot linking Europe and Qatar points to the assets each has for strengthening accountability.
- Harnessing star power
The world’s first successful net energy gain through nuclear fusion is a measure of the infinite range of intelligence.
- A view of Colombia beyond violence
The new government’s pursuit of "total peace" with paramilitary groups is already shaping a public mindset of unity and reconciliation.
- The bright lights of 2022
In the biggest news stories this year – Ukraine, Iran, and China – one unifying symbol was light, and its literal or metaphorical power to liberate.
- Argentina’s lesson in equalizing justice
Many democracies are healthy enough to probe alleged misconduct of top leaders. For Argentina, the conviction of a former president marks a special moment against corruption.
- Europe’s neighborly deliverance of values
Nine months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU turns its idealism into concrete results for countries wishing to join the bloc.
- Out of ashes of war, women in Yemen arise
With a lull in fighting after eight years of conflict, Yemenis now view women differently, especially as leaders in restoring communities.
- Ukraine’s liberation can be global
As the world faces unprecedented humanitarian crises, the response to Ukraine’s needs has pushed reforms in the international aid community.
- Worship by other means
A decline of faithful attendance in Western churches does not mean less practice of Christian qualities of thought.
- Saving biodiversity with a note of harmony
A global conference next week will take up a plan to preserve a third of the planet for nature. Will nature’s intrinsic harmony be reflected at the gathering?
- A new laboratory for merciful justice
As the U.K. debates transitional justice in Northern Ireland, South Africa shows the patient and difficult work of reconciliation.
- How Taiwan differs from China after pandemic missteps
Mistakes during Covid-19 brought election losses for Taiwan’s ruling party. The party leader accepted the people’s judgment with humility.
- Tender touch for Africa's troubles
A peace accord in Ethiopia reflects a trend toward governance that puts a greater good above narrow political ambition.
- Of homelands lost and home found
Through hospitality and gratitude – the cornerstones of America’s Thanksgiving tradition – the world’s expanding mass of migrants and their hosts are finding a shared identity.