The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a worldwide news organization that provides news coverage from around the globe through various platforms, including its website, a weekly magazine, daily news briefings, email newsletters, an Amazon Kindle subscription, and a mobile site. Founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, who established the Church of Christ, Scientist, the publication had a print circulation of 75,052 as of 2011.

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Do foreign students offer a solution to Florence’s tourist problem? - CSMonitor.com

4 days ago | csmonitor.com | Paulo Amorim |John Last

Crowds of foreign tourists make Florence, Italy, hard to visit. The city government would like to replace some of them with students. Is that a solution?
Trump meme coins raise money. They also buy access.

4 days ago | csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake

Meme coins have become a profitable new business for President Donald Trump’s family company. The Trump-branded digital tokens are part of a broader push by the Trump Organization – which is managed by Mr. Trump’s sons, and in which the president holds a majority ownership stake – into cryptocurrency, a form of digital money that Mr. Trump once derided but now embraces. Ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration, Mr. Trump began promoting two meme coins, $TRUMP and $MELANIA, to his supporters.
Do foreign students offer a solution to Florence’s tourist problem?

5 days ago | csmonitor.com | John Last

On the streets outside the American University of Florence, no one is speaking Italian. Everywhere, there are strong, clear American accents, debating the merits of Ibiza or the weight-loss benefits of the Mediterranean diet. This year, though, students might detect an undercurrent of veiled resentment in the air.
Mark Twain’s legacy is not his tall tales. It’s his larger-than-life persona.

5 days ago | csmonitor.com | Danny Heitman

Ron Chernow is best known for “Alexander Hamilton,” his 2004 biography that inspired the popular hip-hop musical. Chernow, who has also written books about George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant, is especially good as a popular historian, placing his subjects within a sweeping canvas of their times. That sensibility also informs “Mark Twain,” Chernow’s new biography of America’s most famous writer.
They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.

5 days ago | csmonitor.com | Cameron Joseph

President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele were all smiles. The leader of the free world and the Central American leader who has described himself as the “world’s coolest dictator” sat in the Oval Office in mid-April, discussing their agreement to send hundreds of deported migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system.
US-China trade talks could temper tariff angst, but rivalry runs deep

5 days ago | csmonitor.com | Laurent Belsie |Ann Scott Tyson

When representatives from the United States and China meet for talks in Geneva on Saturday, they will take the first step toward normalizing a key economic partnership that has spun out of control since the first Trump administration’s trade war measures in 2018. Now, in a series of tit-for-tat escalations initiated by President Donald Trump, the world’s two biggest economies have imposed tariffs so high that trade between the two is dwindling.
Pope Leo’s challenge: How to build unity in a fragmenting world

6 days ago | csmonitor.com | Sara Miller Llana |Ali Martin |Erika Page |Peter Ford

The selection of Robert Francis Prevost as the first American pope stunned Vatican watchers around the world. Many had long believed that an American would never be chosen to lead an institution with 1.4 billion followers because the United States already wields so much global power. Taking the name Pope Leo XIV, he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as tens of thousands gathered below him.
Pope Leo’s challenge: How to build unity in a fragmenting world

6 days ago | csmonitor.com | Sara Miller Llana |Whitney Eulich |Peter Ford |Sophie Hills

The selection of Robert Francis Prevost as the first American pope stunned Vatican watchers around the world. Many had long believed that an American would never be chosen to lead an institution with 1.4 billion followers because the United States already wields so much global power. Taking the name Pope Leo XIV, he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as tens of thousands gathered below him.
Centrists’ only weapon against the far right: Good government

6 days ago | csmonitor.com | Ned Temko

A “hinge moment of history.”That is how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described the dramatic shift in world politics that helped him win his come-from-behind election victory last week. Yet he could also have been describing three other democratic elections that have followed in quick succession in the past few days: in Britain, Australia, and Romania. They are all part of a battle over the future shape of democracy worldwide, framed by two key questions.
Despite deal with US, Yemen’s Houthis have lots of fight left

6 days ago | csmonitor.com | Scott Peterson

Amid a rapidly escalating exchange of fire this week between Israel and Yemen’s Houthis, the United States announced the end of its own expensive, seven-week campaign of airstrikes against the Iran-backed group. While the U.S. campaign degraded Houthi capabilities, analysts describe the setback as likely only temporary, saying the Houthis’ military supply lines, underground stockpiles, and desire to fight are intact.