The beginnings of British settlement in North America are hardly untrodden territory. But in “Two Ships,” an engrossing intellectual history, David S. Reynolds sheds light on a cultural collision that ...

Virtually everything that Diane Warren touches turns to gold, and “How Do I Live” is no exception. Pitched for the 1997 action thriller Con Air, the country-pop ballad did have a unique chart journey, ...

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 ...

Google and Amazon are building massive data centers this summer on opposite sides of Interstate 70 in Montgomery County, sparking a range of reactions from approval and curiosity to outright hostility ...

NEW YORK, NY – This summer, Penguin Classics will take us back to the turbulent beginnings of Partition with two powerful novels that offer intimate, fictional accounts of the period. Both Tamas by ...

The two men became president and prime minister by defeating the political old guard in Senegal. Now they are fighting each other. By Saikou Jammeh and Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal The ...

Economics is split between analysis of how the overall economy works and how single markets function Physicists look at the big world of planets, stars, galaxies, and gravity. But they also study the ...

Now, that frustration seems to be spilling over, with a mounting pushback from regional communities. Australia’s alarming – and ever-increasing – rural-urban divide was thrust under the national ...