In keeping with my intention to explore the continued relevance, inspiration and challenge of St. Francis of Assisi to mark the 800th anniversary of his death, this week's column is dedicated to a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

(AP) — Civil disobedience is by nature violating the law to bring attention to a cause. Famously, civil disobedience by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others led to landmark legislation during ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

Watching Donald Trump’s disjointed, narcissistic ramble at the United Nations, I kept thinking: “Why don’t the delegates walk out?” After all, he insulted many of their countries. “You’re destroying ...

Scholar Roger Berkowitz shares how Hannah Arendt saw civil disobedience as a collective and political act that renews democracy by holding power accountable to justice and constitutional principles.

We’re now a quarter of century into the 21st century, and to say that the movies are in a different place now than they were 25 years ago would be putting it mildly. Technological innovations, ...

Protesters and police played cat-and-mouse, with protesters re-erecting roadblocks dismantled by police, as anger continued over a wave of arrests for alleged subversion and public order offences.

New York Times columnist David Brooks said Friday he believes that while a Milwaukee County judge’s alleged actions to help a man evade immigration authorities may have been “illegal,” they were ...

In response to Elspeth Weisberg’s critique of Sophia Cannonier, published in The Royal Gazette on March 22, 2025, we would like to offer a broader perspective on the concerns raised regarding Ms ...

Political changes often seem like a pendulum swinging back and forth in endless motion. In our current era, the pendulum is on a rightward trajectory in many “liberal democracies” like France, Germany ...