All From the Editors
CommentaryWhere maple syrup meets global economicsThe recent upheaval in Western democracies has several causes, but perhaps the greatest is this: How are they coming to terms with their shifting role in the global economy?
CommentaryTo improve the world, enlist girls, tooLike other girls in her south Indian village, Kousalya Radakrishnan was told to stay at home, marry young, and have lots of babies. If she and a number of her teenage friends had listened, her village would have worse sanitation, fewer library books, and no streetlights.
CommentaryA different definition of violenceHow do you rein in hateful speech online without overbalancing into censorship? That is Germany鈥檚 challenge.
CommentaryWhen and how America works bestWhat happens to students who come from low-income backgrounds but catapult into the world of high-powered universities? For many, it is intensely unsettling, forcing them to bestride two worlds.
CommentaryWarriors in a mental realmThe danger of dismissing this fascination with video games is not just being thought of as uncool. It is missing where young people are living their lives.
CommentaryA heart that refuses to closeStaff writer Harry Bruinius鈥檚 cover story this week is an extraordinary look at the graces and trials of the attempt to forgive. It charts the stories of two mothers, M枚rch and Jolyn Hopson, whose lives intertwined in the most searing way.- CommentaryThe way forward for CSMonitor.comReaders without a subscription to our digital Monitor Daily edition will be limited to five free articles on CSMonitor.com per month beginning May 8.
CommentaryThe long and winding road to progressThe solutions to entrenched problems are almost never obvious or easy. So it鈥檚 no wonder that potential solutions aren鈥檛 one-size-fits-all.
CommentaryThe political question that mattersPolitics, at its best, is the real-time experiment to find out how that promise is most practically and effectively fulfilled in different places and times.聽
CommentaryReconciliation鈥檚 process and promiseThe stories by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo in Louisiana and Fred Weir in Russia in this week鈥檚 issue are about the search for reconciliation. They are about injustice and inhumanity on two different continents and on a scale unthinkable.
CommentaryWhy truth is under fireStudies have long shown that human beings are resistant to information that upsets their worldview.聽But why do we appear so prone to that temptation now?聽
CommentaryWhy the Olympics are worth savingSport can ennoble us, demanding that we rebel against our limitations, find joy and fellowship in the mutual pursuit of excellence, and express grace in loss. The Olympics do not always reach this height, but perhaps no other event unites the world in so rigorously demanding that its participants aspire to a higher ideal.
CommentaryTo fix a school, it takes a villageThese schools have made remarkable gains, but they have done so by mustering every ounce of ingenuity and collective will.
CommentaryHow can China grow?Sitting on a park bench in Beijing, moved to tears by the memories that came flooding back to her as she watched an amateur opera, our reporter saw other core values expressed by a gentleman who sat next to her: harmony, civility, friendship.
CommentaryA new form for the CS Perspective in the DailyIn the spirit of evolving the Monitor Daily toward the clearest statement of the Monitor鈥檚 mission, changes are coming to the 海角大神 Science Perspective starting on Jan. 22.
CommentaryKeeping the American experiment aliveAs president, Donald Trump clearly wields huge power. What he does matters, in many cases enormously. But it鈥檚 also fair to say that, according to the vision of the Founders, a fixation on Trump 鈥� pro or con 鈥� is a backward way of addressing America鈥檚 challenges.
CommentaryThe Monitor鈥檚 true biasIs the Monitor biased toward a sense of unity? Toward a sense that, amid all the diversities of opinions, races, and nations, we can find a common humanity that more strongly binds us? Yes.
CommentaryWhat about a Silicon Valley of politics?Silicon Valley wasn鈥檛 really just about technology. It was America鈥檚 ideas factory. It was about problem-solving. Technology simply happens to be the most powerful and effective means to that end.聽
CommentaryA change at the Monitor Breakfast tableOn Nov. 30, David Cook hosted his final breakfast. It was a milestone for the Monitor and for the Breakfast.聽
CommentaryDarkness and light on the netIn the cyberworld, knowledge itself is power and is countered by knowledge. Technology is the accessory.聽In the case of hacking elections, the internet provides a vast and dark new space for countries to carry out the age-old design of tampering with rivals.
