Europe is at a crossroads. The tools it has to dissuade Donald Trump from acquiring Greenland are strong, slow to roll out, ...

Organizations that bestow awards for good governance are adjusting to the Trump administration’s staff cuts and criticism of ...

Detroit has always been among the most violent big cities in the United States, and it still is. But as violent crime ...

The president is showing a new willingness to invade or attack other countries, while running roughshod over long-standing ...

In universities across the United States, the federal government is a principal patron to research. This relationship shapes a certain risk: What Washington funds, Washington can control.

Like many Americans, the Monitor's staff writers associate cranberries with the holidays. But we wondered – had we ever seen ...

The special relationship between people and their pets elicits strong reactions. For residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico, that ...

Like a few presidents before him, President Donald Trump is asserting full authority over all executive branch workers.

The most relevant news of the day will sometimes be the most difficult to hear. But bad news is not the norm. When reporters ...

Even the top Muslim cleric in Iraq tries to avoid politics, a separation of religion and politics that Iranians now see as a ...

The question of staying or going, and the forces underneath that decision, are in many ways universal.

When the government stripped a small town in France of its public meeting places, residents found a way to gather – and to ...