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The separatist leader of Catalonia stepped back from the brink Tuesday evening, postponing a much heralded unilateral declaration of independence and offering to open talks with the central government...

It was two days before Liberia’s Oct. 10 presidential election, and I’d spent the morning following a group of women’s activists on a protest march through Monrovia. For three...

For Andrew Walker, the current “post-Christian” state of American culture has posed a serious challenge to the faithful. For a variety of reasons, fewer and fewer Americans now have...

On a recent afternoon in the run-up to Liberia’s Oct. 10 presidential election, supporters of the country’s ruling Unity Party spilled out onto the streets outside its low-slung green...

For more than two centuries, many people have tried to shake that peculiar branch of the tree of knowledge called economics. Perhaps no one has done it better in...

The political and ideological tensions between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah exploded into civil war a decade ago. The internecine fighting that claimed some 600 lives by the spring...

The revival of the great American job machine has very tangible implications for Osvaldo De Los Santos. “I think I’ve found the right fit for now,” says Mr. De...

The Christian Science Monitor is an international news organization because it must be. The vision of our founder, Mary Baker Eddy, does more than embrace the world. Knowing about...

Inside Juba’s Protection of Civilians (POC) Camp 3, as the main displaced persons settlement here is called, there are police stations and restaurants, 12 churches and a mosque, an...

Regarding the Aug. 31 Monitor Daily article “The Idaho community that drove out hate”: This was an excellent article that showed how good thinking and acting can stop hatred,...