Power, Peace, and Knowing When To Shift Gears
Our Disruptor-in-Chief has grabbed the bloated federal corpus in his teeth and given it a good hard shake for 100 days. Many Americans have welcomed this forceful reassessment.
She survived Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Now she promotes peace through education.
When Theoneste Mutabazi started teaching at Umuco Mwiza School in Kigali in 2008, he marveled at everything its students had. There was an art room, a music room, and a library “with many books,” he says during a phone call from his office in the Rwandan capital. Since then, Umuco Mwiza, whose name means “good culture” in the Kinyarwanda language, has added more classrooms and even a large recreation area.
If Truth Becomes the Enemy of Peace, There Will Be No Peace
The administration appears inclined to adopt Russia’s wholly fictionalized version of the facts of this war.
DOGE gains access to US Institute of Peace after Trump administration overhauls board
Personnel from the Department of Government Efficiency, accompanied by DC police officers, gained access to the US Institute of Peace Monday after being turned away last week.
The dramatic escalation follows the Trump administration’s Friday gutting of the organization’s board and tees up another court fight between the administration and an independent organization.
HYSTERICAL: CBS Compares Potential Ukraine Peace Deal to 1938 Hitler Appeasement
Our colleague Curtis Houck’s earlier writeup of the new but not improved CBS Evening News suggests that the ongoing turmoil is driven by the newscast’s new format, editorial choices, and anchor delivery. Tonight’s report on efforts to end the war in Ukraine confirms that thesis.
Watch as anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DeBois open the newscast with an introduction to the Ukraine story:
“The Only Answer Is Peace”: Israeli and Palestinian Activists Share Vision of Coexistence
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, many Democratic lawmakers skipped the speech and held an alternative event on Capitol Hill to promote peace. The panel discussion featured Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers who have both lost family members to violence. Inon’s parents, Bilha and Yakovi Inon, were killed in the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
Zelensky Makes Surprise Saudi Arabia Stop to Promote 'Peace Summit'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an unannounced stop in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday for a brief meeting with that nation’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss the ongoing Russian invasion of his country and a scheduled “peace summit” to address it.
Throwback Tulsa: Buddhist Monk's walk across America takes him through Tulsa five years ago today
Buddhist monk Sutham Nateetong carried nothing more than a backpack during his 3,000-mile journey along Route 66.
He walked through Tulsa five years ago today, aiming to travel the old highway to its terminus in Chicago before heading to New York.
“When I walk, I meditate some more and send love and kindness to everybody,” Nateetong said.
Nateetong said he was walking “for peace.”
“I think if our world has peace, then everybody be happy,” he said.
Vatican: Christians and Buddhists Have a ‘Shared Responsibility’ for Peace
ROME — The Vatican congratulated Buddhists this week for the feast of Vesak, insisting that the two faiths have a “shared responsibility” to promote peace, reconciliation, and resilience. The “hallowed time” of Vesak commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and passing of the Buddha, said the statement issued by the Vatican’s office for interreligious dialogue, which provides a “fitting occasion” to reflect on values “deeply rooted in our respective religious traditions.” “Never again war, never again war! It is peace, peace, which has to guide the destiny of the nations of all...
Right to arms, right to peace? Our writer explored a balance.
A headline story one day, out of sight the next – and somehow never far away. The mass shooting is a mostly American phenomenon. Most media coverage falls into a pattern of lament, debate, and repeat.
Patrik Jonsson, a Georgia-based staff writer for the Monitor, often writes on gun culture and gun violence. He was at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, just after the deadly 2012 shooting there.
After the Oct. 25 shootings in Lewiston, Maine, Patrik followed up on reporting by colleague Simon Montlake with a step-back story.