'To Bless All Mankind'

Honesty and progress

Across the globe, nations are declining in corruption, and the citizens who have demanded integrity of leaders have inspired others throughout the world.

The year of living more honestly

One gauge of humanity’s level of honesty is the Corruption Perceptions Index.

Coming clean on corruption’s links to pollution

Rarely does the leader of a country or corporation link character virtue with air pollution.

Welcoming our neighbors

Amid hope for a better life, initial entry into a new community can be challenging for both immigrants and their new neighbors.

Ellis Island of the South

In another life, one man owned blacksmith shops, a second sold mattresses, and a third labored as a skilled mason.

The good report

The inspiring editorial on the facing page points out numerous high points of worldwide progress in 2015.

The underreported good news

The first step in correcting a problem is learning that a problem exists.
A Monitor editorial addressing a new generation of women in the workplace.
Around the world women still face special challenges in participating in the workforce.
One of the key points in the editorial on the facing page is that Asia’s future will depend largely on how nations use their World War II history.

The right use of history in Asia’s future

For a few weeks in 2015, Greece tried to revive memories of Germany’s Nazi past to gain an advantage in negotiations for another European bailout of the Greek economy.
Recent steps toward reconciliation of the decades-long hostility between the United States and Cuba led Monitor columnist John Yemma to ask recently, “Can they be friends?