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When it feels like the world has gone to pieces, find solace in your happy place. These blissful escapes can be more than dots on a map.

People ages 18 to 34 who say they drink fell from 73% in the early 2000s to 59% in 2024, according to Gallup. That’s the lowest this century.

President Trump is wrong when he says China controls the Panama Canal. But the U.S. rival does have influence there, and the administration is moving to counter it.

Possible widespread firings of FBI​ agents are raising concerns about ​the agency’s ability to keep the public safe and to be politically independent.

Bonny Reichert’s ”How To Share an Egg” celebrates the survival of her Jewish family, measured in joyous family dinners.

In postponing some threatened tariffs but not others, U.S. President Donald Trump is sowing uncertainty for businesses and consumers in his own country and abroad. His tactics could score some wins, but also carry big risks.

Joyful family reunions that the ceasefire has enabled in Israel are being echoed in the West Bank and Gaza. But few freed Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were jailed for decades, knew much of the Gaza war, or its staggering costs.

A newly liberated people are embracing their diversity in comedy clubs and marketplaces, sending a message to their de facto leader, a former Islamist rebel.

In San Francisco, an approach that gifts cellphones to homeless people – with someone on the other end – helps to forge human connection.

Progress roundup: With safety and well-being in mind, Warsaw’s measures halved traffic fatalities. And Sri Lanka’s capital is restoring wetlands.

Inflation has come way down since June 2022. But the issue might have decided the recent election. Here’s one story, from a Boston hotel worker, of how its effects still weigh on Americans.

President Trump’s new tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China are sending shock waves into global markets and dismaying allies. Economists warn they could boost U.S. inflation.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Panama’s president in a face-to-face meeting that the Central American ally must reduce alleged Chinese influence over the Panama Canal or the Trump administration will take “measures necessary” to do so.

As wildfires ripped across California, Monitor journalists who live in Greater Los Angeles share their own experiences of a historic conflagration.

President Donald Trump has signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China, fulfilling a campaign promise but raising the prospect of increased prices for American consumers.

President Donald Trump revoked the landmark Equal Employment Opportunity rule signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The action shows an alarming tendency to conflate DEI with equal opportunity for all, our columnist writes.

For residents of Gaza and women in Afghanistan, a revival of athletics lays the seeds for joy as a people.

The Trump administration’s temporary freeze in U.S. foreign aid raises anew the issue of how, in a competitive world, Washington helps itself by helping others.

After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians grasp for answers and a path to restoration under new president Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Three of President Trump’s controversial Cabinet nominees faced confirmation hearings Thursday. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. look most at risk.

Wednesday’s fatal crash of a civilian plane and military helicopter at Reagan National Airport may reflect rising stresses on air-safety systems.

President Trump’s use of the U.S. military for border security and immigration enforcement are pushing boundaries on the role of armed forces.

Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers.