The world exhaled with the announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war Tuesday evening just before a U.S.-imposed deadline expired. Diplomatic maneuvering by a handful of nations worked. Our ...

Rising gas prices are testing President Trump’s energy strategy, forcing a choice between economic stress and military ...

Immigration hard-liners are calling for workplace raids to take the White House’s mass deportation campaign to a new phase.

Simone McCarthy interned for the Monitor's Rapid Response team during the summer of 2016. She is a 2016 graduate of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a 2010 graduate of Yale University. In ...

Virtually all of the refugees let into the U.S. over the past six months are from South Africa. President Trump prioritized ...

President Donald Trump has made threats toward Iran that, if he followed through, might be considered war crimes. Who defines ...

President Donald Trump’s latest threat to destroy Iran’s civilization marks a new level of brinkmanship, as the deadline ...

Before the Iran war, regional powers were rushing for a diplomatic solution to rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Now ...

The world’s worst disruption in oil markets has triggered a rise in trust and cooperation among people and nations to ensure ...

Prayer can lift situations near and far from turmoil to peace.

It is Day 38 of the Iran war. U.S. President Donald Trump has given the Islamic regime until 8 p.m. Eastern time to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping. If Tehran does not comply, Mr ...

Monitor’s newsroom in Boston. Chris started in local news at the Daily Record, covering state politics for the business and legal newspaper in Baltimore, Md. From there, he moved to Central Florida ...