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Who’s responsible?Education is essential to human progress. But who is responsible for spreading access to it? Americans are shifting their views.
Readers RespondReaders write: Future of African museums, team owner earnings, and magazine redesignReaders wrote in about our cover stories and redesigned magazine.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveEnjoying more than just the game
Today’s contributor, an avid board gamer, shares how rethinking his motives at the game table from a spiritual perspective has brought a fuller sense of joy and satisfaction to his activities.
The Monitor's ViewWhen rules are not enough to curb corruptionEven in the world’s least-corrupt countries, recent scandals have led to a search for new ways to appeal to individual integrity as a solution.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveNo one is invisible
Moved by a news report on veterans and others without homes who too often feel invisible, today’s contributor considers a spiritual basis for seeing and feeling our and others’ God-given value and worth.
The Monitor's ViewSudan’s great strength after a massacreDespite the military’s mass killing, the Sudanese have already created a new society over six months of peaceful and inclusive protests.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveCleaning up our ‘issues’ through Christ
Drawing on her experience as a teacher in an educational program for migrants, today’s contributor shares how self-righteousness, pride, and other elements that would keep us from helping to better the world can be healed.
The Monitor's ViewRedefining the future for capitalismFederal regulators plan a forum on ways to prevent short-term focus on profits in order to deal with long-term problems such as climate change and an aging society.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveSinging for joy
Inspired by a video of a multinational concert of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – a piece that’s been played many times as a celebration of humanity’s innate desire for peace, including during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing – today’s contributor explores what it means to truly live Jesus’ command to “Love one another.”
The Monitor's ViewThe Spanish king who set, then saved, democracyJuan Carlos I, the former Franco protégé who retired from public life this week, had his controversies. But he should be remembered for anchoring democracy in a key corner of 20th-century Europe.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveWe are able
Each year The First Church of Christ, Scientist, has an Annual Meeting attended by members from around the world, in person and via video. This year, the meeting’s theme was “that we may be able,” which prompted today’s contributor to share this experience of healing.
The Monitor's ViewThe cries for freedom that still rattle ChinaBeneath the veneer of stability 30 years after the Tiananmen massacre, Chinese society continues to be restless in ways the party cannot always control. Truth cannot be arrested or exterminated.
Has Bernie already won?Bernie's success is very much the product of a political shift and the rise of the liberal left around issues of economic inequality.
Readers RespondReaders write: Sports salary issues, and just my type of essaySee what our readers have to say about sports salaries, as well as an essay about learning how to type from the Home Forum.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveA hidden stream reveals a healing message
When her hands seized up and wouldn’t open, today’s contributor found peace and healing as she considered the idea that even when circumstances suggest otherwise, our God-given health cannot be altered.
The Monitor's ViewAfrica’s big start toward freedom from povertyA free-trade pact for the continent has come into force with nearly half of countries onboard. By one forecast, this is the best path to prosperity and security.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveMade light
Here’s a poem that points to the divine light reflected in us all, which lifts burdens and inspires our lives.
The Monitor's ViewWhy the world’s children are better offA global survey shows progress for children since 2000 has been broad and steady, with lessons on how the view of children can keep improving.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveStaying ‘in a place of love’
When a co-worker’s animosity affected today’s contributor to the point of illness, she turned to God in prayer. The idea that we are all precious children of God, divine Love, opened the door to harmony and healing.
The Monitor's ViewA coup against corruption in RomaniaThe country’s most powerful figure goes to prison, one of a several signs that one of Europe’s most corrupt nations has turned a corner.
