All From the Editors
- CommentaryAn American鈥檚 daily art prayers for UkraineThe daily exercise has also had an impact on the painter. On a deeper level, for the first time that she can remember, she鈥檚 praying every day.
- CommentaryA big change to our websiteThe goal of our new navigation is to be one-stop shopping for a different way of looking at the news.
- CommentaryGoverning wiselyAllegations of fraud and stolen elections did not begin in 2020. Yet refusing to accept election results 鈥 at least at the presidential level 鈥 did. What happened?
- CommentaryA discovery bigger than archaeologyThe Middle East is full of groundbreaking archaeological discoveries.聽What intrigued our correspondent wasn鈥檛 what this team uncovered, but who uncovered it.
- CommentaryA fresh take on SomaliaA trip to Somalia helped launch our war correspondent鈥檚 career. Some three decades later, he returns聽鈥 this time with his photojournalist son.
- CommentaryThree questions about police reformBoston police commissioner Michael Cox is running the department he once sued, after being beaten by his fellow officers while he was in plainclothes.
- CommentaryThe hardest story to tellHow do you ask people who lost family and friends in a deadly crash to talk about forgiveness? With patience and compassion.
- CommentaryA Monitor newsroom debate: Is democracy a 'value'?
- CommentaryOcean Atlas: The girl who carries the ocean
- CommentaryMartin and Coretta: A love storyA tribute to the couple鈥檚 love 鈥 for each other and for humanity 鈥 has arisen on Boston Common in the form of a 22-foot-tall bronze sculpture.聽
- CommentaryWhat is progress, anyway?Points of Progress writer Erika Page reflects on lessons learned during her year on the Monitor's progress beat.
- CommentaryThe Christmas that didn鈥檛 come from a storeMy mother loved giving gifts, and her generous heart just expanded every December. The family budget, however, did not.
- CommentaryArt that honors women鈥檚 strength鈥淥f Rope and Chain Her Bones Are Made鈥 celebrates the handiwork that underlies the often invisible work associated with womanhood.
- CommentaryAn appreciation of former Monitor Editor John HughesJohn Hughes won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Indonesia and went on to a career that spanned Voice of America and the Reagan administration.
- CommentaryIn high court case, a delicate web of emotions"It鈥檚 about children, about child welfare. It鈥檚 about historical injustice and trauma,鈥 our reporter tells the Monitor's Why We Wrote This podcast.
- CommentaryMaking kindness a visible priorityDavid Clark Scott favorite stories were of people taking the time to help one another. On his last day of work, he was working on such a story.聽We picked up where he left off.
- CommentaryHonoring the astonishing Mr. GouldLegendary Monitor essayist John聽Gould had known not one, but two veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg, and taught Stephen King all about writing.
- CommentaryRemembering a 9-year-old鈥檚 pioneering stepConcerning discrimination against Mexican Americans, Mendez v. Westminster was cited as precedent in more well-known聽Brown v. Board of Education.
- CommentaryPress freedom, democracy, and Fahad ShahKashmiri journalist Fahad Shah, editor of The Kashmir Walla newspaper and a Monitor contributor,聽remains behind bars.
- CommentaryDriven to the frontlines by compassion鈥淭he Ukrainians didn鈥檛 ask for this,鈥 Yankee Task Force volunteer Joshua Curry says in a telephone interview from Kharkiv, Ukraine.