Germany democracy was built to repel the populism now sweeping the West. That makes its elections Sunday a test of whether ...

Benjamin Netanyahu is in a bind over Gaza. His hard-right allies want to resume the war. An emotional Israeli public wants ...

Proposing talks with Vladimir Putin to end his war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has freed the Russian president from his ...

Among the second chances offered in U.S. prisons is the first in-person bachelor’s program inside a maximum security yard.

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One month after inauguration, President Trump’s flurry of executive action on immigration has dramatically changed U.S.

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Recent videos of a famed female dissident dancing in prison reveal a mental liberation from repression.

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At a nuclear training facility in Wyoming, Monitor reporters stepped into the world of America’s nuclear missileers – and ...

The 10 best books of February range from humorous novels by Anne Tyler and Tom Lamont to historical novels set in 1950s Leningrad and 1920s Harlem.