All The Monitor's View
- Housecleaning time for democracies
Next week’s summit convened by the U.S. will show democracy’s capacity for self-correction.
- How robots make us smarter
The first global standards for ethics in artificial intelligence show humans can better understand intelligence itself.
- Central America’s bright hope
An election victory in Honduras turned on a candidate’s promise to curb mass corruption.
- Shared blessings as Afghans settle in the US
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, both the refugees who fled Taliban rule and the Americans assisting their resettlement are expressing gratitude.
- Ukraine’s best defense against Russia
The country has been rewarded by international lenders for its progress against corruption. Clean governance can help a democracy fight off neighboring bullies.
- Bees by the watercooler?
To bring more coherence and meaning to the workplace for returning employees, more firms are integrating nature into offices, based on ideas about the origins of mental health.
- The next big leap into an unseen universe
A powerful, new space telescope due for a December launch will peer much farther than Hubble has. Prepare to be wowed.
- China meets its match in women’s tennis
The Women’s Tennis Association defends a top Chinese player who disappeared after accusing a Communist Party leader of sexual assault.
- Why Africa’s bright spots catch US attention
As the continent deals with coups, conflicts, and COVID-19, Niger is rising as a model for progress.
- What’s different for these Iran nuclear talks
Water woes caused by climate change could compel Iran to seek a deal on its nuclear program – and join others in the Middle East in water cooperation.
- A win for clean governance in Europe
A new anti-corruption party in the EU’s most corrupt nation, Bulgaria, leads in a parliamentary election, signaling a civic awakening.
- Iraq steps up in the Belarus crisis
A new Iraqi commitment to “migration governance” may lie behind its effort to end the trafficking and trauma of Iraqis used as pawns by a European dictator.
- A light of truth on Nicaragua’s shady election
A brave group of private poll watchers undercuts the regime’s legitimacy by exposing low voter turnout.
- How ballots can win over bullets
Too many of today’s violent conflicts start with election disputes. The world is trying to ensure Libya’s first presidential election doesn’t go that way.
- Climate action by dictate? Or democracy?
In India’s pledge for net-zero emissions, the world’s largest democracy faces off with the largest dictatorship, China, on which type of governance is best to curb carbon emissions.
- Africa’s urgency to end the Ethiopian war
A moral lesson from the lack of intervention in the Rwanda genocide helps push the continent’s leaders to prevent atrocities in Ethiopia.
- In Israel, Arab magnanimity toward another minority
In an apparent gesture of empathy, the leader of an Arab party in the ruling Israeli coalition asks that money for his community be shared with the minority ultra-Orthodox community.
- No time for anger over climate change
A young inventor at the global climate summit inspires the crowd to see ingenuity in everyone.
- For ‘love of the game,’ athletes can be mentally resilient
As more athletes reveal their mental health challenges, some find aid in rediscovering a sport’s purpose.
- Merkel’s exit message for the world
As she ends 16 years as chancellor, she worries most about losing history’s lessons about “acting in a purely national way.”