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Simon Montlake

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Senior Staff Writer at The Christian Science Monitor

Senior staff writer, The Christian Science Monitor. Learn-by-doing reporter, formerly in Indonesia, Thailand, China. Whiny Brit. Goofy Dad.

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  • 2 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake

    Elon Musk arrived in Washington in January as President Donald Trump’s billionaire benefactor, promising Mr. Trump – and America – that he would transform a bloated and costly federal government into a lean, modernized machine, like his SpaceX Raptor rockets.

  • 3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake

    The escalating battle between President Donald Trump and Harvard University is a high-stakes cultural and political standoff that echoes far beyond higher education. Public deference toward the scholarly excellence that Harvard represents has been eroded by a backlash against elite universities now seen by many voters as bastions of political liberalism. This growing resentment, mostly on the political right, has fueled an assault on their exalted status.

  • 3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake |Patrik Jonsson

    Mark Glyptis voted last year for Donald Trump and his vow to use tariffs as a tool to revive U.S. manufacturing. It’s a tool that’s not panned out yet for steelworkers in Weirton, a West Virginia city of 18,000 people built on steel. The mill’s last working section that made tinplate was idled in May, affecting 600 union jobs.

  • 1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake

    When massive protests erupted last summer against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, third-year information technology student Sukanto Barman was all-in. The student-led demonstrations toppled Ms. Hasina and ended 15 years of increasingly autocratic rule in Bangladesh. The uprising has set the country on a new path, with an interim government, led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, preparing to hold elections by early next year.

  • 1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake

    Where the family house used to stand, shaded by trees on a lakeside street, there are now piles of broken brick, concrete, glass, and tiles. A visitor, Anwar Hossain Swapan, is picking his way through the house’s charred concrete pillars amid the rubble. He stops to read graffiti denouncing the “fascism” of the family who once lived here. For most of Mr. Hossain’s life, this structure was the symbolic heart of independent Bangladesh.

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simon montlake @sjmontlake
4 Jun 25

Trump promised to bring jobs to the Rust Belt. The Sun Belt may get them instead. via @csmonitor https://t.co/ACSoUJgssA

simon montlake
simon montlake @sjmontlake
16 May 25

Students toppled a dictator. Now they must help remake Bangladesh. via @csmonitor https://t.co/YUueHPxyzE

simon montlake
simon montlake @sjmontlake
5 May 25

Empty shelves? Tariffs are about to hit US shoppers in a variety of ways. via @csmonitor https://t.co/xoxa1cBIZM