The Mongol conquests killed millions of people but afterwards established a brief era of peace and prosperity as trade spread across their large expanse. In the long run, however, the Mongols proved ...

America stands at a defining moment. The choices it makes now will determine whether it remains a global power or joins the ...

America’s zeal for anti-imperialist projects abroad has created a new imperialism of its own that is expansive and provocative of conflict. I am of the latter school. America’s zeal for ...

Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current territory was a shambolic mess — part of the Holy Roman Empire, which even ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

If you followed the disastrous denouement of America’s two-decade occupation of Afghanistan, have you wondered why the world’s only superpower has an affliction for distant wars? What is it that ...

Columnist Brett Seaton argues that the older age demographic of Congress is being fiscally irresponsible with government spending. Credit: Jesse Zhang Our leaders are old. So what? You may argue that ...

Every time some tinpot nationalist Euro-huckster wins a meaningless election — a local council seat or control of a given country's delegation in the European Parliament — we are told that we are ...