The jury is still out on whether legal pot helps or harms society. But one thing is clear: Perceptions around cannabis use are dramatically changing.
While some believe that change can only be inspired by fear and discomfort, 2023 showed that persistence and hope are the true drivers of progress.
In an age of youth-led climate movements, children are leaders. But what motivates them? A climate lawsuit driven by a group of kids in Montana offers an answer.
When Taylor Luck, the Monitor鈥檚 Middle East reporter, first heard that Saudi Arabia was attempting to 鈥済o green,鈥� he wasn鈥檛 sure what to make of it.
When Taylor Luck, the Monitor鈥檚 Middle East reporter, heard that Saudi Arabia was attempting to 鈥済o green,鈥� he wasn鈥檛 sure what to make of it.
Reporter Martin Kuz sees potential for Ukraine to find a kind of positive transformation known as post-traumatic growth on the other side of the war.
In 2013 Monitor illustrator Karen Norris was running her first marathon and was stopped because of the bombing. 鈥淲e gained a new perspective 鈥� on ourselves personally and as a city,鈥� she says.
Covering the war in Ukraine is personal for reporter Martin Kuz. It has brought him closer to his roots and to his Ukrainian father.
A 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.
Labels can be reductive, particularly when it comes to wide-ranging demographic groupings. But many American Latinos are finding strength and unity in a collective identity.
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.
鈥淭he Ukrainians didn鈥檛 ask for this,鈥� Task Force Yankee volunteer Joshua Curry says in a telephone interview from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
鈥淭here鈥檚 this whole community, a society that exists in both (the United States and Canada) and transcends the border in a lot of ways."
When an antisemitic slur cut through the night, Rabbi Litvin might have been forgiven for responding with a rebuke. Instead he opened a dialogue.
In reality, Americans鈥� views on abortion are complex. A majority support federally guaranteed access 鈥� but with limits.
Her Chicago neighborhood has seen better days. But Shay Knox doesn鈥檛 want to move somewhere else 鈥� she wants to build a better community.
Rich, complex Native American societies offer a rebuke to the idea that civilization can only thrive at the expense of the environment.
The journalistic tenet of giving 鈥渧oice to the voiceless鈥� has noble roots but is ultimately flawed. Do marginalized people not have voices of their own?
