Christian Science Monitor
- Chamber of Commerce opposes a trade war. But can it deter Trump?
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 05:07 PMTom Donohue of the US Chamber reveals the complexity in how American businesses view Trump’s confrontation with China. Donohue agrees concerns are urgent, but says trade war is “biggest threat” to economy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Calls for Israeli ambassador to resign amid sexual assault allegations
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMA dozen women have come forward with sexual assault allegations against David Keyes, a spokesperson in the Israeli government. The episode is the latest in the global spread of the #MeToo movement.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Compassion keeps knocking
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMOur front door seems far too accessible in this African city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What are you watching? Readers recommend 'The West Wing,' 'I Know Where I’m Going!'
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMMonitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Returnships’: how the cousin of internships is about giving back
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMFor those looking to make a midcareer change or reenter the workforce after focusing on family, a returnship can offer the chance to make more of a difference.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kavanaugh twist shows rising influence of MeToo
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMThe fact that lawmakers on both sides were quick to say Kavanaugh’s accuser must be heard reflects the power of the #MeToo movement – and the pivotal role of women in US politics.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Supplies distributed to isolated Wilmington Isle after hurricane Florence
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMThe rain has stopped but dangerously high floodwaters and fuel shortages are expected to last for days. Rescue and restoration efforts have begun in North Carolina with almost 20,000 military personnel and federal workers deployed to help in the aftermath.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Inside Hong Kong's mission to curb clothing waste
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMA new textile mill in Hong Kong is taking aim at the tons of textile waste dumped into landfills as a result of "fast fashion" with technology that will separate fabric blends in waste garments and produce a recycled yarn to be spun into new clothes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump to declassify documents on Russia investigation
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMDocuments from the FBI and Justice Department will be made public to build the president's case that investigations into Russian electoral interference are personal political attacks. Critics say the move holds grave risk for politicizing parts of the federal government.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With nowhere to run, Idlib residents reach for life, but prepare to fight
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PM‘Live today to fight tomorrow’ has been the motto of Syrian rebels and their families who, with each successive battlefield loss, have flocked to Idlib for months. An existential moment has arrived.
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- An African model for ethnic reconciliation?
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 04:04 PMEthiopia’s new leader has quickly begun democratic reforms but none will mean more than reconciling the country’s ethnic groups. Recent violence shows the urgency to develop a civic identity that he says starts with forgiveness.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Search missions continue in Philippines after typhoon Mangkhut
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMAs hurricane Florence continues to ravage the American South, the Philippines is working its way out from under another natural disaster as landslides pummel the country after typhoon Mangkhut. The government has blamed the mudslides on illegal mining operations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Top Picks: 'On Chesil Beach,' 'The Age of Napoleon' podcast
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PM'Jurassic Park' returns to theaters, the hosts of the podcast 'Dis-Order' are reviewing every Disney animated film, and more top picks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Who put the ‘Indian’ in Indian summer?
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMThe term’s etymology is vexed. It was first used in the Northeastern United States in the 18th century, but that is all we can say with relative certainty.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ten years later: Are we readier to counter a Lehman-style crash?
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMThe financial crisis resulted in a deep recession. We wondered: Has it also prompted economists to change their views on how crises happen?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No loneliness vacuums in God’s love
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMThere has been a heightened focus on the issue of loneliness in the news this year, and today’s contributor found that it was prayer and turning to God, divine Love, that made the difference in finding freedom from feeling alone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Japanese billionaire will invite 'creatives' on first private moon flight
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMElon Musk announced that billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be on board for SpaceX's first private moon flight in 2023. Mr. Maezawa plans to invite artists, architects, and designers to travel with him as his guests in order to create a work of art that reflects the experience.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Decades after Anita Hill, another woman appears before the Senate
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMWhen Anita Hill testified in 1991 that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her in the workplace, there were only two women in the entire Senate. Today's political climate creates a different backdrop for Christine Balsey Ford, due to testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Sept 24.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The freedom driving North Korea to the table
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMThe latest North-South summit is yet another test on whether the Kim regime feels pressure from its people to further embrace a market economy in return for giving up its nuclear arsenal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What has changed since Anita Hill? Female senators who were there weigh in.
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMHistory often gives us some perspective on progress. Two former US senators offer their view of Anita Hill’s testimony before Congress in 1991, and the lessons for Kavanaugh hearings today.
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- Cutting emissions still matters. But carbon capture rises as a battlefront.
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 05:07 PMClimate mitigation strategies tend to focus on emissions reduction. But carbon capture is becoming an equally vital prong of climate action. And the technology to do it is rapidly catching up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Arabic is flowering in Israel even as it’s officially demoted
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMFinding a common language, perhaps especially in a multilingual environment, is key to social cohesion. And speaking another’s language signals respect and fosters understanding.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meanwhile in ... Africa, more young people are being drawn to the sport of fencing
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMAnd in Saudi Arabia, a small group of women are operating the country’s first feminist radio station.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Amazon’s Bezos clicks on homelessness
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMA big new focus of his philanthropy will be innovators solving this acute social problem. The best are nonprofit volunteers equipped with special qualities of care that can heal the homeless from the inside out.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How one North Carolina town stayed dry during Florence
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMAs staff writer Patrik Jonsson began traveling the Carolinas after hurricane Florence, he came across a town that put aside its differences over politics and global warming to find a solution to chronic flooding.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Rising out of Hatred' chronicles one man’s ideological metamorphosis
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMDerek Black's account of turning away from a familial and ideological legacy of hate is at once disturbing and uplifting.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No whispering, just horses and city kids, learning on a farm
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PM“Who knows how you get a horse to trot?” Dale Perkins asks the campers. “You slap the reins!” yells 11-year-old Schneider. “No, that’s only in the movies," says Mr. Perkins.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- South Korean president in Pyongyang for new talks
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMThe continued dialogue between North and South Korea after President Trump's June meeting with Kim Jong-un heralds the possibility of renewed economic and diplomatic ties between the two countries.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With no verdict, how survivors of child sex abuse find own sense of justice
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMFor many survivors of child sexual abuse by priests and pastors, there is still no legal recourse. Several now-grown survivors say that doesn’t mean justice is forever out of reach – but that it takes different forms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In trial for eco-activist's murder, push for a full picture of justice
Wednesday - 09/19/2018 - 02:50 PMHonduras's supreme court has indefinitely delayed the trial for the murder of Berta Cáceres, a renowned environmental rights activist, after her family's lawyers filed a series of appeals.
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