All The Monitor's View
- How to glue together a cracked nation
Local elected leaders often show the kind of unity that reflects the country’s founding.
- The graft-busting uses of COVID-19 aid
Financial help for countries coping with the impact of the coronavirus is coming with strings to ensure honest governance. Corruption cannot remain a norm.
- An election that fits the American story
Influences on the 2020 vote began deep in a society that rejuvenates itself.
- A U.S. election that redefines global leadership
With both presidential candidates being doves on America’s role, other nations are stepping up to carry the torch of universal values.
- A bright example for the US – from the Andes
A year after a raucous, fraud-ridden election, Bolivia held a clean vote that surprised observers and could lead to a unity government.
- The thirst to rethink droughts
From Finland to South Africa, residents have shown that lack of water is mainly a dry spell of imagination about being in harmony with nature.
- A fair US election with help from foreign friends
With trust low in American institutions, official foreign observers of the election can help ensure transparency and accountability.
- A new era of police reform – and more
Five months of protests and attempted reforms point to a society addressing the causes of violence.
- Nudges to American unity
Preelection divisions may seem high but both studies and activists point to how much people have in common.
- Report card on gender equality in peacemaking
In the two decades since the U.N. called for more women in building peace, evidence has piled up that women do make a difference.
- A nation of coups wants the army in the barracks
Protests in Thailand persist because the world has steadily learned the benefits of civilian over military rule.
- France’s alternative response to a beheading
The government’s reaction to a barbaric murder can be an embrace of minority Muslims, not a stigmatizing of them.
- Chile’s choice to reinvent itself
A vote on whether to rewrite the constitution would signal not only a new social compact for Chile but also hope for Latin American democracy.
- The pandemic upends debate on migration
With many borders closed and the flow of migrants down, countries rethink the benefits of hospitality toward new residents.
- A light shines on Nigerian corruption
Days of mass protests have the potential to turn Africa’s largest economy toward clean governance.
- A 'Club Med' of peaceful petrostates?
More nations in the eastern Mediterranean are cooperating to tap offshore oil and gas despite Turkey’s belligerence. Latest example: talks between Israel and Lebanon over a maritime border.
- Remedies for a global recession? That’s the idea.
Economists wonder why the pandemic’s economic effects are not as severe as they expected. Every global downturn has spawned new and practical solutions.
- It takes a city to protect trees
Communities thrive when they protect city trees against climate change.
- A new resiliency lens in ending hunger
The World Food Program not only deserves this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts against a pandemic-driven surge in hunger, it also deserves a nod for its new view of individuals in distress.
- The noble harmony behind peace prizes
Not all recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize make peacemaking look easy. Yet most do assume harmony is an assured norm.