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Trials test our strength, test our resolve. But we are remarkably resilient. These are the stories of those facing enormous challenges and finding ways forward with grace and growth.

Finding resilience: Para rowers upend notions of ability

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Immigrant stories of the American dream

4 ATMs, 2 million people: Cash crunch compounds Gaza’s wartime woes

Many Israelis are resigned to war with Hezbollah. Are they prepared?

Overcoming adversity: How the pandemic revealed resilience
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When Veronica Quiroga and her fellow students at Fordham University set out to interview Bronx residents about surviving the pandemic, they expected tales of woe. Instead, they found people kept using one particular quality to describe their experiences: resilience. Despite one of the city’s darkest eras in recent memory, the light of community, family, and perseverance shone through in the voices of the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project.

Near Ukraine war’s front lines, threatened villages try to build a future

How Lebanese escape Hezbollah-Israel fight, a war beyond their control

The Monitor's View

Safe learning for children in war zones

Criticized, doubted, and now champions. How two Celtics rewrote their story.

They came to the US against their will. Their descendants returned to Africa for them.

In Pokrovsk, Ukraine, a rose is a rose – and a sign of resilience and hope

Old-timey organ-grinders try to keep pace with modern Mexico City

Once a seaside getaway, Gaza ‘safe zone’ now feels like a polluted prison

They had never seen the ocean. Then climate change made them fishermen.

Kharkiv hails Biden’s OK to strike inside Russia: ‘We’ve been waiting’

How a lethal Ukrainian sea drone is protecting the global food supply

First Look

In Northeast Brazil, effort to reintroduce Spix’s macaws takes flight

West Bank village, proudly self-reliant, now faces wartime hostility

For West Bank, an economy under siege is a Gaza ‘war dividend’

In Gaza and Israel, an exhausting cycle of hope and hopelessness

Sudan war’s rape survivors flout taboos to help each other recover

In northern Gaza, famine sets in: ‘We will eat anything’

Snapshots from Gaza: By sheer will, Palestinian women eke out a life

In besieged and starving Gaza, Ramadan charity and prayers endure

Difference Maker

Behind the potter’s wheel, veterans work on healing

The Monitor's View

Resilience against Russian lies

In Senegal, domestic violence survivors craft hope in silver

Ukrainians along front: Digging deeper, and waiting, waiting ...

Amid Western aid cuts, Ukraine families wonder how they’ll get by

Preserving culture, one textile at a time

Ukraine: After two years of war, the abnormal is the new normal

Lyrical, harrowing ‘Io Capitano’ offers epic immigration tale

Outgunned, Ukrainians watch Congress while facing Russians

Tents in winter: Dislocated by war, Gazans struggle to find shelter

Let there be light: Re-sparking my love of learning

At Sahara’s edge, old habits protect crops from new climate

Comeback college: How Morris Brown kept its doors open

The Monitor's View

Ukraine’s other resistance – against despair

African eye doctor looks on the bright side

‘Time for us to leave’: Gaza reporter, again, joins thousands fleeing

Lives on hold, economy in check: Gaza war tests Israel’s stamina

Community restores Compton bakery after street ‘takeover’

In wartime Gaza, a complicating burden: Communication blackouts

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Songs of beauty amid war

At Oct. 7’s ground zero, what an Israeli survivor lost ... and learned

‘This is a war that starves you’: For Gaza, hunger is a new enemy

Points of Progress

How Indigenous people’s work can save aquatic grass and terrestrial forest

War stranded Gaza workers in Israel. How it dashed their dreams.

Family, homes, burials: In Gaza, a race to utilize lull in fighting

America’s last lighthouse keeper is retiring. She, and her light, are ready.

Reporter’s notebook: In Gaza, days of ingenuity, nights of doubt

The call of home: Why some Ukrainian refugees are risking a return now

‘When will this end?’ In Gaza, tough questions from kids.

Cover Story

On tides of climate change, adaptability buoys hope

The Monitor's View

For global youth, it’s green by choice

Stronger: A Podcast

What women lost to the pandemic – and how they're winning it back

Over six episodes, we bring you stories from women in Las Vegas, one of the hardest hit economies in the country. Their experiences capture the challenges women have faced as well as their courage, strength, and resilience.
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Past stories

A country that reversed a narrative of poverty

How a year like no other summoned unsuspected strengths across cultures

For these ‘war children’ in London, grit and resilience come naturally

‘We’re not dead yet’: Big Basin redwoods scorched, but not lost.

Beyond fortitude: COVID-19 nurses tap a hidden strength – “sisu”

Fighting ‘invisible fire’: Why Paradise is ready for coronavirus.

After a mass shooting, what does healing look like?

Can resilience planning be disentangled from climate politics?

Try, try again? Psychologists question the value of 'grit'

Famine Resilience

Battered by drought and civil wars, more than 20 million people from Yemen to Tanzania are at risk of starvation in what aid workers call the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. But over the past two decades, nations that once produced searing images of famine's toll have moved to thwart it by strengthening community resilience.