All The Monitor's View
- When voters opt for candidates who unite
Elections in Turkey and Slovakia saw winners who reject hateful and polarizing rhetoric with promises of healing across political divides.
- This migrant surge calls for cross-border solutions
Central America, Mexico, and the U.S. can recognize each other’s urgent needs and stem the flow of families seeking asylum.
- Elections to watch, perhaps to admire
In many contests, a recent trend in favor of an anti-corruption norm is showing up. It is all part of building “Planet Integrity.”
- Defeating Islamic State with justice, not just guns
The fall of the militant group’s last enclave also brought a plea for an international court to try the captured foreign fighters. The U.N. must heed the plea.
- Saving the merit in March Madness from gambling
As more states rush to legalize sports betting, college athletics are pleading for help against gambling’s influence. Schools need to buckle down on their values of meretricious achievement.
- Plan now to heal a post-Maduro Venezuela
By preparing for a return of democracy and economic health, the interim president and his foreign partners can create an incentive for a transition of power.
- Why Americans need a peek at the Mueller report
To prevent future foreign meddling in elections, we must know why Trump campaign officials did not collude with Russia.
- A cyclone’s wake-up call on climate adaptation
This month’s massive storm in southern Africa highlights the need for helping poorer nations build up resilience against flooding.
- A lesson in New Zealand’s new gun ban
After the Christchurch massacre, both left and right listened to each other’s fears about guns and gun control to quickly achieve a compromise.
- The ethics of watching a massacre video
The livestreaming of the New Zealand killings only raises the bar for both social-media giants and internet users to increase their powers of discernment.
- After a tragedy, why leaders must be consolers in chief
In New Zealand and other places with recent crises, politicians who listen and grieve can bring progress.
- Building both trust and safety into automated travel
Recent crashes of two Boeing 737 Max jets should help propel progress toward a better human-machine interface.
- A fitting response to the Christchurch killings
Like many recent mass killings, the one in New Zealand hit a place of prayer. The response of many around the world was to gather in prayer. There is a good reason for that.
- A sudden wind for clean governance in Central Europe
Defying the region’s stereotype of perpetual corruption, Slovakia may elect a woman as president who has a record of standing up to powerful interests.
- How to de-corrupt college admissions
The indictment of both parents and university workers over an admissions scandal cries out for schools to return to education that first instills character.
- At 30, the web still nurtures freedom of thought
On the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Algerian protesters show how digital connections can bring freedom and break fears.
- A critical vote to define ‘home’ for Europe
An election in May for the European Parliament has triggered differing visions from France and Germany to prevent victories for anti-EU populist parties.
- To end an Ebola epidemic, listening helps
Despite progress against the second-worst Ebola epidemic in history, responders in Congo are struggling to heed the fears of vulnerable communities and to build up trust.
- A Muslim call to end words of contempt
In the world’s most-populous Muslim country, Indonesia, the leading Muslim group asks the faithful to end the use of a religious slur – to head off tensions before a national election.
- The Arab Spring springs back
Mass protests in Sudan and Algeria hint that the liberating lessons of 2011 are not forgotten.