A new California secession proposal is making the rounds again. Here’s a look at the proposal and other notable failed attempts to carve up the state. There have been at least 220 attempts to break up ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – In its slow march towards realpolitik, India has come a long way from looking at Palestine through the prism of its independence struggle and the trauma of partition and ...

At the initiative of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders came together in Paris on Friday, 12 June. The aim was to produce concrete ...

Physicists look at the big world of planets, stars, galaxies, and gravity. But they also study the minute world of atoms and the tiny particles that comprise those atoms. Economists also look at two ...

Need to know: Stark contrast between Sparkhill and Edgbaston highlights Birmingham's economic divide ...