After Pearl Harbor and before D-day and the Bomb, there was the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, hoping to rally the American public for what he knew would be a long war, had ...

The Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, when a small force of American planes bombed Japan for the first time, broke every rule in the military book. It devoted scarce resources to a nebulous objective.

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 ...