All From the Editors
- CommentaryFigure out your entire life now, pleaseAfter graduating college, you鈥檙e supposed to be聽thoughtful, try new things, and explore this astonishing world. But that can be a聽terrifying prospect.
- CommentaryMy AfghanistanNo reporting assignment has left more of an impression than the three trips I made to Afghanistan from 2006 to 2009.
- CommentaryA Monitor ThanksgivingWhy, despite all the hassle, do we love holidays? If we do it right, we鈥檙e putting others first, so we'd like to say "Thank you" to聽our readers.
- CommentaryThe 鈥榪uiet fire鈥 of a Monitor readerI want to acquaint you with thinkers who are wrestling with issues close to the Monitor鈥檚 heart.聽First up: activist and minister Duncan Newcomer.
- CommentaryCalifornia offers a glimpse 20 years into the futureThe rise of Latino power in California began with Proposition 187, a聽1994 ballot initiative that聽sought to deny services to unauthorized immigrants.
- CommentaryWhy local news is necessaryRemember the dogged, wisecracking reporters of yore? As in 鈥淕ood Night, and Good Luck鈥 and 鈥淎ll the President鈥檚 Men鈥? That spirit is still alive.聽
- CommentaryHow to fight 鈥榝ake news鈥Compelling readers to recalibrate their own opinions 鈥 to look at the world dynamically and flexibly 鈥 is healthy. And it鈥檚 how fake news is defeated.
- CommentaryWhat color shirts are the refugees wearing?Migration is one of the world鈥檚 most pressing issues. Western democracy is being reshaped by how people live 鈥 or don鈥檛 鈥 with different cultures.
- CommentaryThe 鈥榮tranger鈥 within MexicoThe world tends toward binaries. 鈥淚 am indigenous鈥 or 鈥淚 am Spanish,鈥 for instance. 鈥淚 am both鈥 seems harder to wrap our heads around.
- CommentaryHow the NRA changed politicsIn exploring the reasons behind the NRA鈥檚 influence, you find a lesson on the evolution of American politics, and why the group鈥檚 clout may be waning.
- CommentaryA lesson from Uganda about 鈥榩eople power鈥Bobi Wine鈥檚 platform in Uganda is alluring, though it has no policy other than 鈥減eople power.鈥澛營s he a new kind of leader, or just another strongman?
- CommentaryThe recipe for changeNone of the problems facing the world are unsolvable. A program supported by Melinda Gates is transforming a society鈥檚 view of women in Senegal.
- CommentaryProtecting people, protecting natureWestern environmentalism has been built on the concept that humans and conservation are incompatible.聽But聽malama 鈥榓ina聽offers a different perspective.
- CommentaryWhy the world needs India to winCan a country be too diverse for democracy to work? India鈥檚 only path to superpower status lies in proving that the answer is no.
- CommentaryHow America鈥檚 conversation on race is changingThe 1619 Project from聽The New York Times, AfricanAncestry.com, and more: Our Sept. 9 cover story tracks the new American conversation on race.
- CommentaryWhy the world needs isersarneqIn this week鈥檚 cover story,聽staff writer Harry Bruinius looks at the Queens borough of New York, the most linguistically diverse spot on the planet.
- CommentaryThe Woodstock I never knewA moment聽when the veil of the everyday world was drawn back,聽Woodstock revealed what its attendees hoped the world could be.
- CommentaryThe Monitor鈥檚 participation in the Poynter-Koch FellowshipThree Monitor staffers are enrolled in the program, which helps young journalists develop their skills.
- CommentaryDoes responsibility extend beyond borders?The Monitor hosted two journalists through聽the Mandela Washington Fellowship; it was聽a reminder of the connection the Monitor had with Nelson Mandela.
- CommentaryThe new frontier of rural AmericaModern life often seems to encourage the pursuit of meaningless goals. Could a return to small-town life bring a deeper joy to Americans?