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Eight ingredients for a peaceful society

What makes for a peaceful society? Hot spots from Congo to the Middle East would benefit from such knowledge. But so would the United States, which, at home, isn’t always so harmonious and abroad, is still at war in Afghanistan.
Michael Shank, vice president of the Institute for Economics and Peace’s US office gives his take on eight ingredients America needs to build a peaceful society.
3 great photo books

Three of the best photo books of 2011, as picked by the Monitor's photo staff.
Looking back: The Monitor's coverage of 9/11

A selected archive of The Monitor's coverage of 9/11 and beyond.
Top 5 books about Los Angeles

Talk about literary America and Los Angeles is not exactly the first locale that comes to mind. However, the truth is that the City of Angels has a deep and enduring place in the history of American letters. Here are just five of the many fiction and nonfiction books that attempt to unravel the mystery that is L.A.
7 reasons we still give a damn about "Gone With the Wind"

Seventy-five years ago this month, a novel by an unknown young journalist from Atlanta was published. Originally submitted as a manuscript stuffed into dozens of manila folders, the book was a love story set against the backdrop of the US Civil War. Today, Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind” remains one of the bestselling books of all time. It has been translated into 35 languages, sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide, won a Pulitzer Prize, and earned eight Academy Awards as a Hollywood motion picture. Here are some of the many reasons we still love "GWTW."

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'To this end was I born'

A Christian Science perspective: No matter how difficult our lot in life may be, God's guiding hand is always accessible.
Greece's economic woes may hurt US

Greece's problems and the larger European debt crisis may impact banks, the stock market, trade and even the 2012 election.
Robert Reich
JPMorgan collapse: Can we regulate Wall Street now?

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the nation’s largest bank, announced Thursday that it had lost $2 billion in risky trades over the past six weeks. It adds fuel to the argument that Wall Street needs to be more heavily regulated.
Chapter & Verse
How a murder changed China as it moved toward World War II

Paul French, author of 'Midnight in Peking,' tells how the murder of a British diplomat's teenage daughter shook both Chinese and foreigners in pre-war Peking.
Obama ad hits Romney on jobs record, Swiss bank account

The new Obama message, which will be broadcast in battleground states Virginia, Ohio and Iowa — accuses Romney of having 'shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China' when he led the investment firm Bain Capital.
Romney seizes nomination with decisive sweep

The GOP candidate won Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York, a clean sweep of all five states who voted today.
Tuesday night wins make it official: Romney is the nominee

Romney swept Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Pennsylvania, and is expected to win New York shortly.
Illegal immigration slows almost to a standstill

The number of illegal immigrants from Mexico, the largest source of migrants, has dropped by the largest margin since the Great Depression.
Economy adds 120,000 jobs. Why the dip from bigger gains in early 2012? (+video)

The unemployment rate fell from 8.3 percent to 8.2 percent in March. Economists had been expecting higher numbers of new jobs.
Obama: Republican budget 'radical,' a 'Trojan horse'

Obama, in a speech to newspaper executives, is sharply criticizing a $3.5 trillion budget proposal pushed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., which passed on a near-party-line vote last week and has been embraced by GOP presidential hopefuls.
Census site snarls after it releases 1940 data

The National Archives made the 1940 records available on their website, which quickly staggered under the traffic.
1940 Census data: what you need to know to look up relatives

Monday's release of 1940 Census data sets off frenzy to dig into records on family past, crashing the website. When it comes back online, you'll need to know a few basics.
1940 census records have over 20 million still alive today

1940 census: Information released Monday shows that more than 21 million US citizens who participated in the census over 70 years ago are still alive this year.
Change Agent
Cooperative businesses provide a new-old model for job growth

Co-ops worldwide represent much more than hippie grocery stores: They're a fast-growing way to do business better in fields from finance to agriculture to industry.
Amelia Earhart: Why is Hillary Clinton backing new search? (+video)

Amelia Earhart might have crashed on Nikumaroro island, a private group suggests. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the US is backing the group's effort to discover the truth.
The New Economy
US adds 227,000 jobs. But are they well-paid?

The US economy is creating more jobs at slightly higher pay. But the averages can be deceiving.
Paper Economy
Long-term unemployment drops

Workers unemployed 27 weeks or more declined to 5.426 million or 42.6 percent of all unemployed workers
Why Obama is unveiling mortgage relief plan on Super Tuesday

President Obama will announce a mortgage relief plan to help some 3 million homeowners. Is it coincidence that Obama's first news conference since November is during Super Tuesday?
Where GOP candidates stand on Rush Limbaugh remarks

What did Mitt Romney and the GOP candidates say about Rush Limbaugh's remarks about law student Sandra Fluke?
The Daily Reckoning
Could you ride out a Great Depression?

When the Great Depression hit, many Americans were able to live off the land and wait it out.  In today's sour economy, that's less of an option.
The Daily Reckoning
How to ruin your economy, like Argentina

The financial moves of the Argentinian government over the past decade have set the pace for the rest of the world.
Woody Guthrie, in an age of 'Occupy'

On his centennial, tributes pour in for a man who made complex social issues deceptively simple through song and championed the downtrodden.
Cover Story
Modern romance: Gen-Y is late to the wedding, but wants marriage

Gen-Y is is rewriting modern romance as the path to marriage gets longer but more certain: Young people want more certainty before the wedding.
FDR and Chief Justice Hughes

The overlooked story of the hardworking justice who stood up to one of America's most popular presidents – and won a victory for posterity.
Democrats, GOP collude to lure people into gambling

It seems like America’s political parties have never been more polarized. But when it comes to state-regulated gambling, they’re often playing the same hand. Unfortunately, it's a losing one.