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While the economy is roaring back and the pandemic looks like it might finally ease, one troubling trend remains: The United States is piling up debt as never before. Federal deficits in 2020 and 2021 are certain to be the biggest relative to gross domestic product since World War II. By 2031, the federal debt will reach an all-time record share of the nation’s economy, the Congressional Budget Office forecasts, even if current spending doesn’t change. Yet economists appear less concerned than they were five years ago. And Democrats and even some Republican policymakers have plan...

Moscow They’re not leaders for life – not technically, at least. But in political reality, the powerful tenures of China’s Xi Jinping and, as of this week, Russia’s Vladimir Putin are looking as if they will extend much deeper into the 21st century – even as the two superpowers whose destinies they steer gather more clout with each passing year. What’s more, as they consolidate political control at home, sometimes with harsh measures, they’re working together more substantively than ever in a growing challenge to the West and the world’s other superpower, the United States, wh...

Dear Reader, About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outsid...

Seoul, South Korea North Korea became the first country to drop out of the Tokyo Olympics because of coronavirus fears, a decision that underscores the challenges facing Japan as it struggles to stage the global sporting event amid a pandemic. A website run by North Korea’s Sports Ministry said its national Olympic Committee during a meeting on March 25 decided not to participate in the Games to protect athletes from the “world public health crisis caused by COVID-19.” The pandemic has already pushed back the Tokyo Games, which were originally scheduled for 2020, and organizers have scr...

Paris France’s role before and during the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a “monumental failure” that the country must acknowledge, the lead author of a report commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron said, as the country is about to open its archives from this period to the public. The report, published in March, concluded that French authorities ignored the preparations for genocide as they supported the “racist” and “violent” government of then-Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana – and then reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the killings. But it cleared them of ...