All From the Editors
Commentary鈥業 choose the river鈥�After leaving her counterinsurgency career, Euphrates Institute founder Janessa Gans Wilder聽has worked to support peace builders worldwide.
CommentaryHumanity鈥檚 ultimate laboratoryJust because something is hard does not mean that it is unnecessary, and our families give us ample evidence of that every day 鈥� especially now.
Commentary鈥楩ake news鈥� and 鈥榬eal news鈥�Journalism can inform, advocate, and entertain.聽Yet there is something greater journalism can do: it can enlighten and illumine.
CommentaryThe Walden next doorTravel experts say many summer vacations this year will be local and outdoors.聽Close to home may not be exotic, but the unexpected abounds.
CommentaryWhat the Monitor stands forThe Monitor is often asked to both support and condemn various political figures and movements across the world. Editor Mark Sappenfield responds.
CommentaryOne way the world is changing pandemicsGlobalization is shaping the coronavirus, and that鈥檚 reason for hope.聽The best defense we have against pandemics is the knowledge we share, after all.
CommentaryDid you hear the one about the Monitor?We鈥檙e the bran muffin of journalism.聽But we change lives because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
CommentaryEpiphany鈥檚 epiphany: One church鈥檚 storyCan itinerant preachers be part of a revival 鈥� a reimagining of American mainline 海角大神ity that brings people back to pews?
CommentaryCoronavirus versus connectionTo me, this unprecedented moment of enforced physical isolation has only underscored the mutual power and connection we share.
CommentaryThe Amazon you don鈥檛 knowIf we let stereotypes guide our thinking, we might think Brazilian ranchers are interested only in their crops or cows. But the truth is more complex.
CommentaryA different kind of guidance counselorIt is widely accepted that perhaps the most powerful form of charity today is mentoring children and teens in underprivileged communities.
CommentaryHow one Monitor friend shook a countrySince Chol Duang聽returned to South Sudan from the U.S., there had been questions. What did you learn in America? Are you a spy?
CommentaryA man for all seasonsWhy did we write a cover story on centenarian statesman George Shultz in 2020? It鈥檚 simple. He鈥檚 a builder 鈥� someone who searches for solutions.
CommentaryCultural approbationHas author Jeanine Cummins opened the subject of Mexican immigration to her readers? Or has the publishing industry overlooked writers of color again?
CommentaryTwo out of 120,000The aim of the nonprofit聽House of Renewed Hope is to help those who have been unjustly imprisoned and to work to reform the justice system.
CommentaryAustralia鈥檚 fiery trialFor Australia and its American eco-twin, California, a realization is dawning. A warming world requires new thinking 鈥� or, perhaps, very old thinking.
CommentaryThe American dream, rezonedA rising generation of Americans wants to live differently聽鈥� more 鈥淓uropean,鈥� you might say 鈥撀燽ut they have to change the rules of U.S. housing first.
CommentaryReplacing despair with hope in rural AmericaChrista Case Bryant鈥檚 cover story on Estonia鈥檚 efforts to foil Russian hackers is a study on聽alertness. And I introduce the authors of 鈥淭ightrope.鈥�
CommentaryHow we see climate scienceAt this point, peer-reviewed science points to a significant and accelerating human impact on the climate. But聽catastrophe need not be inevitable.
CommentaryAll God鈥檚 creaturesWild horse populations are stressing the American West, yet the simplest solution 鈥� sending them to slaughterhouses 鈥� is, for many, abhorrent.
