With gun violence down, is America arming against an imagined threat?
A Pew study finds that Americans think gun violence has escalated when in reality it’s way down from two decades ago. The violence has dropped, meanwhile, even as gun ownership has increased.
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Common Core: Education reform’s next big thing
Common Core promises new tests. Will they be better than the old ones?
Is top ranked Massachusetts messing with education success?
Graphics: Amand Paulson/The Christian Science Monitor
To Invest, or not to Invest? As Wall Street posts a new record, experts decode its message about the state of the economy – and whether it’s too late to invest.
Dow at 15,000: What the stock market is telling us
Do young people believe in stocks?
Why Charles Larsen will be staying out of the market
One couples’s rationale for getting into the market
Illustration by Dan Vasconcellos/The Christian Science Monitor
The Big Three automakers, reinvented, eye consumers worldwide
GM, Ford, and Chrysler have reinvented themselves in the years since the Great Recession almost spelled the demise of two of the Big Three automakers. Their ‘transformative’ evolution puts them in a position to compete globally.
Graphic: Julie Fallon/The Christian Science Monitor
Photo: Clockwise from top: Chevrolet Silverado, Dodge Dart dashboard, Ford Mustang, Jeep Wrangler. (AP and PRNewsFoto)
The eurozone crisis explained in 5 simple graphs
Governments have collapsed and bailouts have run into the hundreds of billions of euros, and still the eurozone crisis lingers. How did we get here?
Graphics by CS Monitor staff
Facing Terror: Boston bombing reveals a new American maturity toward insecurity
Graphics by Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor
Countdown to Tax Day: As April 15 looms, we dig a little deeper into taxes, where they come from, where they go, and what reforms to the tax code could look like.
Tax reform: Why a kinder, simpler tax code eludes Congress so far
Tax day 2013: Saving energy can save you money on taxes
What does the federal government do with your money? Take our taxes quiz.
Graphics by Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor
The Faces of Immigration Reform: What a new plan by Congress could mean for 11 million undocumented immigrants, and how amnesty impacted the lives of 3 million legalized in the 1986 immigration overhaul.
Photos: (top) Petra Falcon, executive director of Promise Arizona, wipes her forehead as Arizona politicians and protesters react to the US Supreme Court decision regarding SB1070, in June 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP
(bottom) Undocumented immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at Tucson Sector US Border Patrol Headquarters in August 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP
Graphics from Pew Research Center
Financial Crisis in Egypt: Tough choices lie ahead in Egypt’s economic future
Bread riots or bankruptcy: Egypt faces start economic choices
How Tough is too Tough? How rocketing school suspensions nationwide may feed the school-to-prison pipeline – and even violate civil rights, a special report by Monitor education reporter Stacy Teicher Khadaroo.
Photos: (top)Mercedes Morgan, a senior at Ralph J. Bunche Academy, an Oakland, Calif., alternative school for students with disciplinary records, listens in as the school’s restorative justice coordinator, Eric Butler (r.), talks by phone with her mother. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
(bottom) Indicating he’s done answering a question, Oakland High School student Jesse Baldain III passes a ball to the instructor in his manhood-development class. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
Graphics by Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor
