Commentary
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The Monitor's View Look who’s ponying up for climate change
More private investors see gold in going green, a reflection of larger trends in financial institutions to invest in society’s broad goals.
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The Monitor's View Poland rediscovers EU values
The ruling party’s reversed itself on expelling judges – and rule of law – thus avoiding a split with the European Union. Poles decided that constitutional principles are part of Europe’s project in peace.
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The Monitor's View An ideal strategy toward China’s aggression
US scholars of China who once hoped for its peaceful rise now advocate ‘constructive vigilance’ – one based on transparency, integrity, and reciprocity.
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The Monitor's View The power in Ukraine that keeps Russia at bay
Lawmakers in Kiev worried less about further Russian attacks than the president’s call for far-reaching martial law and its potential erosion of democratic norms and ideals.
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The Monitor's View To keep youth from gambling, ask those who abstain
A British survey not only audits a rising problem but probes the moral reasoning of the majority of young people who do not gamble.
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The Monitor's View A big #MeToo moment against gender-based assault
A year since this hashtag movement, rallies around the world help signal a shift in attitudes on equality and safety for women and girls.
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Upfront Blog Do borders have to divide?
What are borders, really? In an evolving world, what should they do?
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The Monitor's View For peace in Afghanistan, a new view of women
As talks on a political settlement gain momentum, the Taliban seem to admit Afghans no longer accept archaic views about women.
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The Monitor's View In France, political climate change
Mass riots against fuel price hikes opened the eyes of leaders that non-climate issues such as poverty and fairness in carbon taxes must come first.
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The Monitor's View Pauses for peace that may end Yemen’s war
Humanitarian gestures by both sides in the conflict, just before talks expected in Sweden, hint at a recognition of the principles that set limits on violence and protect the innocent.
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The Monitor's View Bush as the necessary model of a public servant
His long career from military pilot to president leaves a legacy of service badly needed in an era of distrust of public institutions.
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Upfront Blog The aggressive (and subtle) faces of coercion
No matter the injustices heaped upon them, liberty and freedom percolate beneath the surface.
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Readers Respond Readers write: Dangers of plastic pollution, possible solution in charcoal, walk through little-seen aspects of Africa, and race against time
Letters to the editor for the Dec. 3, 2018 weekly magazine.
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Global Newsstand Global Newsstand: The unseen costs of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more
A roundup of global commentary for the Dec. 3, 2018 weekly magazine.
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Global Newsstand Global Newsstand: The unseen costs of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more
A roundup of global commentary for the Dec. 3, 2018 weekly magazine.
- Global Newsstand US midterms were not a complete rebuke of Trump, Seoul should be wary of Pyongyang in diplomatic efforts, US foreign policy needs to be stable, Gre...
- Global Newsstand Unregulated hate speech on the internet leads to violence, War in Yemen must end, but finding peace will be hard, Iran’s blasphemy law has become e...
- Global Newsstand Fear of ‘the other’ begets acts of hate, With China, Japan needs to step out from the shadow of the US, Centrist infighting is an opportunity for e...
- Global Newsstand US-Russia relationship recalls cold war, Proof means little in Warren and Khashoggi affairs, Iran’s blacklisting adds to US sanctions stress, Saudi...
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A houseparent, a bus, and our God-given capabilities
Today’s column explores the idea that ability is not simply a human attribute that may be in short supply. Ability is unlimited and inherent in all of God’s children.
- Bullying and the love that heals it
- Service
- Walking a fine line, or safe in God’s infinite care?
- No longer ‘starved for reality’
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Look who’s ponying up for climate change
More private investors see gold in going green, a reflection of larger trends in financial institutions to invest in society’s broad goals.
- For peace in Afghanistan, a new view of women
- In France, political climate change
- Pauses for peace that may end Yemen’s war
- Bush as the necessary model of a public servant
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Readers Respond Readers write: Dangers of plastic pollution, possible solution in charcoal, walk through little-seen aspects of Africa, and race against time
Letters to the editor for the Dec. 3, 2018 weekly magazine.
- Readers Respond Readers write: Violence on the left and the right
- Readers Respond Readers write: The value of ‘puttering’ and people-to-people diplomacy
- Readers Respond Readers write: The power of song, comparing movements, updates on Washington, and exploring diversities of the Amazon
- Readers Respond Readers write: Examination of Islamist moderates, cartoon cuts, protecting the Amazon, and sustainability of farms
