As the Monitor begins our 118th year of publication, our new leadership team is going back to our founding documents.

With our camera lens, we try to show you the world as it is, with all its beauty, compassion, and resilience. This month, ...

Russian attacks are hitting Ukrainian energy infrastructure hard, leaving residents without power and heat in one of the ...

At a time when there are more autocratic governments worldwide than democratic ones, reporting under the threat of danger or ...

Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential figures in American conservatism. His assassination has forced the nation to examine the legacy of his messaging.

This year, young people from Mexico to Madagascar to Nepal have protested corruption. But what, exactly, is corruption? And ...

The question of staying or going, and the forces underneath that decision, are in many ways universal.

Like many Americans, the Monitor's staff writers associate cranberries with the holidays. But we wondered – had we ever seen ...

The special relationship between people and their pets elicits strong reactions. For residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico, that ...

The most relevant news of the day will sometimes be the most difficult to hear. But bad news is not the norm. When reporters ...

When the government stripped a small town in France of its public meeting places, residents found a way to gather – and to ...

Detroit has always been among the most violent big cities in the United States, and it still is. But as violent crime ...