After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they ...

Over the span of less than one week, America witnessed yet another allegedly left-wing assassination attempt play out at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — and also discovered that ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Violence motivated by political differences has emerged as a defining, if alarming, feature of 21 st-century American civil life. Neither side in our nation’s increasingly dangerous ideological divide ...

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 ...

America’s antisemitism watchdogs are committing institutional malpractice. While antisemitism explodes on the right, including throughout the Donald Trump administration and popular right-wing online ...

It’s a new and unsettling moment, in a string of far too many such moments. It feels inescapably clear that we have a political hatred epidemic in our country, which is too frequently spilling over ...