All From the Editors
CommentaryNigeria鈥檚 schoolgirl rebellionIn the borderlands of Nigeria, school attendance for girls is as much an act of war against Boko Haram as picking up a gun.
CommentaryGlobal voices on progress: a special project of the Monitor DailyThis summer, the Monitor is collaborating with more than 50 newspapers worldwide to promote solutions journalism 鈥� and a more hopeful view of the world.聽
CommentaryBreaking the cycle of absentee fatherhoodLee began to understand the true nature of fatherhood when he began to understand the true nature of marriage, even though he wasn鈥檛 married himself.
CommentaryThe costs of libertyPeng Jie came to Beijing for the same reason rural migrants have come to cities for generations 鈥� to find opportunity and a new life. And she did. The problem was that her community was seen as a blight on the gleaming vision for a modern Beijing.
CommentaryWhen a healthy environment is good businessDredging a swath through the Varadero reef would increase trade, create jobs, and drive down prices of some goods for Colombians. How do you weigh the value of a potentially unique ecosystem against the promise of greater prosperity and meaningful employment?
CommentaryHow 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?
CommentaryCan 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?
CommentaryFinding 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.
CommentaryHow 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.
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