All From the Editors
EditorialsHow to change WashingtonWashington isn鈥檛 working, the thinking goes.聽But what if that sentiment is wrong? What if Washington is working pretty much as it is set up to do?
EditorialsCan the Arctic teach the world to cooperate?Must exploitation and conflict inevitably accompany exploration and expansion? Or can we learn the lessons of the past and reap the benefits of expansion without falling prey to its temptations?
EditorialsFinding the good beyond the crisisBy most metrics, Puerto Rico is not a success story. Yet Whitney鈥檚 story points to why it is too simplistic to look only at the negative 鈥� or only at the positive.
EditorialsHow progress drives purificationStaff writer Ryan Lenora Brown had gone to Cape Town, South Africa, to report on 鈥淶ero Day鈥� 鈥� the day the city鈥檚 faucets were going to go dry because of drought. But there had been a development.
EditorialsWhere 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?
EditorialsTo 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.
EditorialsA different definition of violenceHow do you rein in hateful speech online without overbalancing into censorship? That is Germany鈥檚 challenge.
EditorialsWhen 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.
EditorialsWarriors 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.
EditorialsA 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.- EditorialsThe 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.
EditorialsThe 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.
EditorialsThe 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
EditorialsReconciliation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.
EditorialsWhy 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
EditorialsWhy 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.
EditorialsTo 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.
EditorialsHow 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.
EditorialsA 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.
EditorialsKeeping 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.
