Traveling across China this year, the Monitor’s Beijing Bureau Chief found optimism, nimbleness, and resilience – even in the ...

President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are “closer than ever before” to a peace deal, even as Russia launched another ...

Childlike receptivity enables us to learn about and experience spiritual, harmonious reality.

Education reporter Ira Porter covered a range of issues in 2025 – a year that saw U.S. colleges and universities go head-to-head with the government over funding. His favorite assignment? One that ...

Good morning, and welcome back. If you missed Wednesday’s special holiday Daily – a letter from Taylor Luck in Amman, Jordan – you can find it here. Our series of letters resumes today with an ...

It’s powerful to listen to what God, good, is telling us about our likeness to Him.

Ralph Fiennes leads a stellar cast in “The Choral,” about an amateur choir struggling to stay afloat as its male singers head ...

Taylor Luck, the Monitor’s Arab world correspondent, has a broad assignment, covering his beat with a close eye on and ...

Good morning. Your Monitor Dailies will look a little different over the next week.  Until Jan. 5, when the regular Daily resumes (including on Saturdays), we’ll be featuring a letter from a different ...

The advent of Jesus brought to fuller view God’s everlasting, healing grace.

Efforts to stop Venezuela’s oil exports signal that U.S. goals go beyond the narcotics trade to include pressure on the ...

Anna Mulrine Grobe reports today on the Trump administration’s intentions in Venezuela, which it initially justified as a counternarcotics surge but has now expanded to target sanctioned oil tankers.