Harry Bruinius

2 months ago | csmonitor.com | Harry Bruinius

Many readers of the Monitor’s Weekly magazine know that our first package of news stories is most often categorized “Humanity Behind the Headlines.”As news journalists, we follow a general convention of keeping our presence out of the stories we cover, focusing on those affected by a news event or important issue. We write in a tone and with a style that mostly removes our emotions and opinions from a story.

Dec 31, 2024 | csmonitor.com | Harry Bruinius |Melanie Freeman

President Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, defined his faith as “inextricably entwined with the political principles I have adopted.” It would infuse the decisions he made at every stage of his career in ways both good and bad, historians say.

Dec 29, 2024 | csmonitor.com | Harry Bruinius

As the nation mourns the passing of James Earl Carter, Jr., its 39th president and the longest-serving ex-president in U.S. history, there is something poignant, and perhaps even emblematic, about a moment in history almost half a century ago, when the term “evangelical” was barely a blip on the radar screen.

Sep 3, 2024 | csmonitor.com | Harry Bruinius

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Sep 2, 2024 | everand.com | Harry Bruinius

In this week’s cover story, our Beijing Bureau Chief Ann Scott Tyson files a dispatch from Taiwan, where she explores how residents are coming to understand themselves as, specifically, a Taiwanese people. They emphatically prefer peace, Ann tells us. The