Plan now for the major shocks that further subsidy cuts will soon bring. [ analysis ] The revolution in Tunisia is spreading to the rest of the Arab world. But it would be a grave mistake to confuse ...

As the crisis in Egypt reached its inevitable climax this week, commentators struggled to find historical parallels, from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to Tiananmen Square, to the Iranian revolution.

“The people of the world can live together in peace,” Obama said at Cairo University. “We know that is God’s vision. Now that must be our work here on Earth.” In Obama’s view — although he did point ...

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

There are tariffs, there are prohibitive tariffs and then there’s Egypt tariff on whiskey. It is, without a doubt, the most fascinating import tax of all time, largely because nothing about it makes ...

The uprising in Egypt has many lessons for geopolitics. For travelers, it’s to go when you have the chance. Revolutions don’t wait for your retirement trip or the “gap year” between college and work.

Five years ago, President Barack Obama traveled to Egypt -- then still governed by the pro-American, secularist authoritarian Hosni Mubarak -- to explain how he believed this Earth could at last ...