Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst's "Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914" sets itself a deceptively narrow task: to tell the story of the First World War’s outbreak through ...

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 ...

What do displays of national pride mean when they are no longer accompanied by the mass shared grief that gave rise to them?

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

As auroras are again spotted in the United States and Canada, we take a look back at the best-documented northern lights in ...