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Poland
Why Poland’s illiberal ruling party is cruising toward reelection
csmonitor.com - Dominique Soguel
Since coming to power in 2015, Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party has seized state institutions, crossed swords with the European Union on issues …
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Mind
Voyage of the mind and body: Two books explore modern pilgrimage
csmonitor.com - Noah Robertson
It was hearing from a friend that first made me think about traveling. She was walking the Camino de Santiago, an ancient Christian pilgrimage in …
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Migrants left home for a reason. Returning is a struggle.
csmonitor.com - Ashley Okwuosa
A former political office is an unlikely location for a small convenience store, but it works for Olanipekun “Tope” Adenike. When offering directions …
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Literary Prizes
After a skipped year, the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded for 2018 and 2019
csmonitor.com - Thilo Schmuelgen/Reuters
Amid all the flurry over Nobel Prize announcements this week, the two awards for literature went nearly unnoticed by the general reading public – at …
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Peace
Why a peace prize befits Ethiopia's leader
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When Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, much of the world knew not only of his achievement – creating a democratic and “rainbow” …
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Business
Sea levels are rising, so why is coastal construction?
csmonitor.com - Patrik Jonsson/The Christian Science Monitor
As she recalls the flood waters rising once again last month around her Charleston, South Carolina, home, Elizabeth Cooper says she can still here …
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Abiy Ahmed
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize
csmonitor.com - Mulugeta Ayene/AP
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country's two-decade border conflict …
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Russia
Study links Russian tweets to release of hacked emails
csmonitor.com - Jon Elswick/AP/File
Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election has generally been seen as two separate, unrelated tracks: hacking Democratic emails and sending …
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NRA
NRA troubles: A hunter targets the world’s most powerful gun lobby
csmonitor.com - Ann Hermes/Staff
In a wooded clearing, David Dell’aquila pulls his dust-caked all-terrain vehicle up to a deer feeder. He climbs atop the ATV and hoists a sack of …
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Points of Progress: Tech halts poaching, garment workers get raise, and more
csmonitor.com - Newscom
At Liwonde National Park, a new tool is preventing poaching. Created after an elephant census discovered that nearly a third of the continent’s …
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Professor vs. media mogul: Populism plays in Tunisia, too
csmonitor.com - Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters
One is a constitutional law professor who had to borrow money to register as a candidate and is promising Tunisians radical political change: a …
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Hunter Biden
Caught in Trump impeachment storm, Joe Biden holds steady
csmonitor.com - Charlie Neibergall/AP
As the impeachment fight between President Donald Trump and House Democrats escalates, it has largely pushed the 2020 Democratic presidential …
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War
‘Cold Warriors’ is a thrilling dive into Cold War propaganda
csmonitor.com - Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers
The Cold War was fought largely on the battlefield of ideas. As Duncan White’s massive and enjoyable book “Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the …
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Books
A love letter to storytelling
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In 1901, a little girl finds a blue door standing in a field and walks through into another world. So begins “The Ten Thousand Doors of January,” the …
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Books
A Q&A with Megan Phelps-Roper, author of ‘Unfollow’
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Megan Phelps-Roper grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church, which has been designated a hate group by civil rights organizations. She ran Westboro’s …
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Edward Snowden
5 things to know about Edward Snowden’s ‘Permanent Record’
csmonitor.com - Metropolitan Books via AP
Edward Snowden, a former contractor in the United States intelligence community, released his memoir on Sept. 17, six years after his disclosures of …
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Opinion
The global bandwagon on tax integrity
csmonitor.com - AP
For a small place, the Cayman Islands just made a big give. On Wednesday, the notorious tax haven in the Caribbean promised to publish the identities …
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World News
The cost of a guest worker visa? For some scam victims, years of debt.
csmonitor.com - Jeff Abbott/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Last January, more than a hundred people waited for their visas outside the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, only to find out that they had been …
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Macedonia
Serbia, Albania, N. Macedonia agree to passport-free travel
csmonitor.com - Marko Djurica/Reuters
The leaders of Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia agreed on Thursday to allow passport-free travel for their citizens by 2021 and a speedier …
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Trump Administration
Why impeachment polls matter so much to Trump
csmonitor.com - Evan Vucci/AP
One of the remarkable aspects of the turbulent Trump presidency has been his consistent position in the polls. No matter what happens, it seems, …
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Cosmology
A Physics Nobel for seeking our place in the universe
csmonitor.com - Courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)
It was Oct. 6, 1995, in Florence, Italy. The conference was wrapping up, and the tone in the room was subdued, recalls Natalie Batalha. As a graduate …
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Cosmology
A physics Nobel for seeking our place in the universe
csmonitor.com - Courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)
It was Oct. 6, 1995, in Florence, Italy. The conference was wrapping up, and the tone in the room was subdued, recalls Natalie Batalha. As a graduate …
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The White House
Is US in constitutional crisis? That may not be most important question.
csmonitor.com - Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/File
President Donald Trump’s pledge of non-cooperation with the impeachment inquiry of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives may or may not …
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Iraq
In Iraq’s protests, a popular cry to reform a broken political system
csmonitor.com - Hadi Mizban/AP
The overwhelming display of anger in Iraq over the past week – and the unprecedented violence with which it was met – has shocked many Iraqis, even …
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World News
When the right wing is still 'too socialist': Poland's far-right unites
csmonitor.com - Dominique Soguel
When Poland goes to the polls this weekend in parliamentary elections, it is the ruling Law and Justice party that challengers will be gunning for. …
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Opinion
The borderless power of sports
csmonitor.com - Reuters
On Thursday, in a Tehran stadium whose name means freedom in Farsi, thousands of Iranian women will get a taste of freedom they have long wished for. …
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Cafe culture: France fights to keep its fraternité
csmonitor.com - Thibault Camus/AP
Old movie posters, edges fraying, hang unceremoniously on the walls of Café Parisien. The colored tile floor is cracked in places and the bar needs …
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What Turkey wants after U.S. leaves Syrian border
csmonitor.com - Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long threatened to send troops into northeastern Syria to clear the border region of Syrian Kurdish …
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Black History
Birthplace of civil rights movement elects first black mayor
csmonitor.com - Jake Crandall/Montgomery Advertiser/AP
Montgomery, the capital of the southern U.S. state of Alabama, known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement for its 1950s bus boycotts over …
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Ecuador
To avoid protesters, Ecuador president moves capital
csmonitor.com - Fernando Vergara/AP
Thousands of indigenous people, some carrying long sticks, converged on Ecuador's capital Tuesday as anti-government protests and clashes led the …
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