If you were to base your entire knowledge of American current events solely on the social media feeds of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), you could easily conclude that the U.S. is at war.

From “Yankee Doodle” to iPod playlists, here’s what American troops read and listened to in every war — and how culture became morale equipment.

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 ...

Football is incidental to the Super Bowl, which is primarily an annual taking of inventory of our national culture war, which is something of a worsening civil war. For example, President Donald Trump ...

Europe had for decades appeared to be immune from American culture wars. But no longer: Many of the same symbolic conflicts that have polarized the United States are beginning to reshape Europe's ...

There are too few avenues in life a tired citizen can take to avoid being involved in political wrangling and side-choosing these days. Shouldn’t we be able to stay out of it all while enjoying a ...

On Sept. 2, when American military aircraft targeted a boat in the Caribbean and reportedly followed it with a strike to pulverize the shipwrecked survivors, it was a new assertion of U.S. imperial ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...