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Commentary

From the Editors

An Afghan ‘voice for voiceless sisters’

Readers Respond

Readers write: Ukraine coverage where grace matters

The Monitor's View

Your beverage cup, my next sweater

The Monitor's View

Flipping the script on democracy’s decline

Dive into the tropical fish nursery of the future

A glassy sweeper egg, moments from hatching, is seen through a microscope at Roger Williams University’s Wet Lab in Bristol, Rhode Island, where parent offspring are bred for the New England Aquarium's aquaculture program. The round bubble is an oil droplet, which is a nutritional source similar to an egg yolk.

The Monitor's View

A new war doctrine on innocence abroad

The Monitor's View

Pakistan as climate bellwether

The Monitor's View

China becoming an open book?

Serena Williams’ legacy – on and off the court

From the Editors

Are public schools foundational to democracy?

The Monitor's View

Macron’s reset in North Africa

The Monitor's View

Malaysia’s new norm for justice on high

The Monitor's View

Ukraine’s identity shift may outlive the war

The Monitor's View

A great rethink on student debt

The Monitor's View

Bytes and bravery over bullets

Monitor's Best: Top 5

‘Goodnight Moon’: 75 years in the great green room

What China is – and isn’t – learning from military drills near Taiwan

Monitor Breakfast

Union rebound? AFL-CIO’s Shuler sees promise, long road ahead.

Presidential plantation shifts telling of history to let all voices rise

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who changed the world

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