Advent began yesterday. "O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!" the prophet Isaiah told us at Mass yesterday. Jesus urged us to be wakeful in Matthew's Gospel: "So too, you ...

A blunt new report from the University of California at San Diego has ignited a fierce debate about declining student readiness and what that says about the state of higher education. The report, ...

There's a debate on when exactly light bulbs were invented. One of the earliest recordings of an electric "bulb" dates to 1801-02, when English chemist Sir Humphry Davy heated a platinum strip to ...

The horse-drawn carriages that predated internal combustion vehicles were indispensable for mobility, but horses don't have headlights or any form of electric-powered headlamps that we've come to ...

The director says it would be challenging to recreate the conditions behind his Oscar-nominated skating doc, which nobody could have anticipated would become such a success. By Brian Davids Writer ...

Credits: Directed by Ming Liu, starring Fred Hechinger, Lynn Hung and Joshua De Jesus. Rating/runtime: R for language and brief sexuality; 115 minutes. How to watch: In theaters Friday. Note: In ...

A young immigrant woman falls for a troubled U.S. soldier in this sensitive and sweetly melancholic drama. Sebiye Behtiyar, left, with Fred Hechinger in “Preparation for the Next Life.” By Jeannette ...

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 ...

Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to ...

Every once in a while a film comes along starring an actor you have never seen before, who beguiles the screen and blows an audience away. Bonus points if they can do this without even raising their ...

Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American ...

Exclusive: The Oscar-nominated docmaker follows in the footsteps of RaMell Ross: Adapting a novel as his first narrative feature for Plan B, Orion Pictures, and Amazon/MGM Studios. With a screenplay ...