Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Senate Republicans have for weeks been debating the use of the “talking filibuster” to guarantee the passage of the SAVE America Act in the upper chamber, after President Donald Trump called the ...

Iran has ruled out the possibility of a ceasefire amid ongoing hostilities, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei saying Tehran will focus solely on defence and retaliation as long as ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Wednesday that there’s not enough consensus in the Senate Republican conference to increase the chances of advancing voting reform by forcing ...

Time is not fungible. The time you spend reading this column cannot be "reclaimed." It is gone and it won’t be back. Which is why the "talking filibuster" proposal for the United States Senate is such ...

Many people that we find annoying trigger us in some way. Sometimes, it’s something as simple as a person’s face or tone of voice that annoys us, as social worker and therapist Maria Baratta explains.

Maryellen MacDonald is professor emerit of psychology and language sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World.” ...

DEAR ANNIE: My son lives at home, but he has no interest in talking to me. He doesn’t eat meals with me and my husband. He just stays in his room and comes downstairs to cook his own food, which is ...

Something very significant has been happening in plain sight, and almost no one seems to be noticing. Over the past few years, there have been televised congressional hearings, repeated news segments ...

Narcissists are known for their sense of entitlement, self-centeredness, superiority complex, and condescending attitude toward others. Talking to them can be frustrating and draining, and what might ...

I’ve made versions of this argument here in the Editors’ Blog and on the podcast many times. But it’s so critical and so beyond dispute I wanted to state it here as clearly as possible. There is no ...