All From the Editors
CommentaryGiving action to empathyThe gravitation of trends in communication, culture, and transportation 鈥� all drawing us closer together 鈥� is irreversible.聽This calls for heaping bushels of empathy.聽
CommentarySpace mathFor the scientists of the Cassini mission, math has unrelentingly transformed Saturn from a curious jewel in the night sky into something we have vicariously touched and tasted.
CommentaryRefusing to honor fearThe knowledge of Kim Jong-un鈥檚 ultimate impotence is an important armament of a different sort. It helps weaponize how we think about evil worldwide.
CommentaryLessons from 鈥榯he enemy鈥�When so much information is being flung at us daily, fitting the world into easily canned preconceptions may seem to be the only way to cope 鈥� to make sense of it all.聽But then you read Michael Holtz鈥檚 cover story on China鈥檚 dramatic plans for a new national park system, and the need for something more becomes apparent.
CommentaryBeing brave about the new worldI struggle to see how posting a video of the latest Gylfi Sigur冒sson goal to my Twitter feed, complete with emojis and hashtags, will significantly enrich the world at large.聽This is why I am terrified of my children.聽
CommentaryEthos of rugged independence in Appalachia spurs neighbors to turn to neighborsLocal residents in Gatlinburg, Tenn. have been buoyed by the legions of volunteers who have descended on the place with their good intentions and growling circular saws.
CommentaryStaving off starvationWe sent in three staff writers and a staff photographer to find out what lessons have been learned from past droughts and famines. Aid groups and others are taking steps that are saving individual lives and, in some cases, entire villages.
CommentaryThe question that truly mattersThe real question is, Who is thinking about this in new ways? Who is trying new approaches? Who is not being bound by limitations about what is possible?
CommentaryGetting your hands around scienceA new weekly science page seeks to sweep away the line between science and the average reader.
CommentaryAmerica鈥檚 special sauceWhat if you could collect all the best of every country, shake it up, and see what comes out? That, essentially, is the idea of America.聽
CommentaryDelivering our very bestConsider this a mailbag of some of the other questions we鈥檝e been hearing, questions you might be asking as well, about the Monitor鈥檚 newest publication.
CommentaryThe courage of cause, the ease of effectThe Western world is undergoing a fundamental change in its economic structure. The jobs that once sustained the Western working class are disappearing and evolving into new forms, and too many Western workers are not keeping up.
CommentarySurviving a mission of self-worthWhat happens when the value of an individual or a group is not acknowledged? What happens when the yearning to be understood is not met?
CommentaryKeeping abreast of the timesOne major question we鈥檝e been hearing from readers is, what is the relationship between the Weekly and the Daily?
CommentaryA hands-on view of educationWhen education becomes one-size-fits-all, it risks overlooking a nation鈥檚 diversity of gifts.
CommentaryAddressing concerns about our new website
CommentaryA different way of doing journalismWhat the world would most miss if the Monitor were to vanish, we believe, is its completely different way of seeing the news.
CommentarySagebrush renaissanceAll sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds. They are the vehicle by which important but competing claims can find balance.聽
CommentaryWho is 鈥榰s鈥�?By some important measures, the boundaries around whom we accept as part of 鈥渦s鈥� are particularly rigid at the moment.聽
CommentaryClimate change, and common-sense politicsPeople who had almost no interest in global warming became involuntary pioneers of a green revolution, moved not by soaring rhetoric, but by common sense.