Owning an electric vehicle (EV) now may seem just as expensive and unnecessary as a smartphone did back then. If Americans today think about EVs at all, they are likely to assume EVs are expensive and, perhaps most worrying, that their batteries will run down and leave them stranded (a concern often called “range anxiety”). Recommended: The Monitor's View Who killed the electric car?

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:45:15 -0500

The movie “Roma,” vying for 10 Oscars on Sunday, including best picture, is an homage to domestic workers. The movie by Alfonso Cuarón is set in Colonia Roma, the Mexico City neighborhood where he was raised in the 1970s. In some ways Cleo bears little resemblance to Veronica, who has cared for three Monitor households and five Monitor children.

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:36:00 -0500

“Venezuela is broken. The widespread hunger, sky-high inflation, rampant crime, and acute shortages that have hit the country hard over the past three years have started to poke holes in many Venezuelans’ once unbreakable faith in the government.

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:18:00 -0500

The self-described centrist and possible candidate for president has made criticism of the Republican and Democratic Parties the central theme of his as-yet unofficial campaign. “Both parties today on the far left and the far right are more interested in partisan politics, revenge politics,” said Mr. Schultz in a CNN town hall broadcast on Feb. 12.

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:36:38 -0500