“What we are dealing with is a moral trauma, which is a new concept: you live all your life and you know this is right and this is wrong – and then you get to the front lines and everything is mixed.”
Olga Rudnieva NGO Superhumans CEO! Ukraine
‘What we are dealing with is a moral trauma’: How NGO Superhumans is helping to rehabilitate battle-scarred Ukrainians
WRITER: Andrew Mueller
Monocle, June, 2026
Good cities make room for everyone. They also allow space for myriad celebrations and let people thrive somewhere in the fuzzy middle.
From the Pope to Bad Bunny, ‘Madrileños’ have plenty to put their faith in this weekend
Liam Aldous
Monocle
JUNE 3, 2026
“But it’s really symbolic of where the world is going to go. If Ukraine falls to the aggression of Russia, it’s going to give a lesson not just to Russia but to other countries about what they can and can’t get away with.”
US senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona
At the Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa, Ukraine looks increasingly like the leader of the free world
WRITER: Andrew Mueller
Monocle, June, 2026
“Our job is to create a space for reflection and to tell the truth about history, to tell the truth about where we’ve been as a country.”
Theodore Gonzalves, a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Trump wants to censor the semiquincentennial – but museums have other ideas
past speak for itself.
WRITER: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Monocle June! 2026
“If the war is over, who won?”
Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs
questioning Marco Rubio about the war with Iran
He didn’t change my opinion on the state of where we’re at right now. He did something better. He changed my opinion on hope. The hope that you can reach out and connect with people from the absolute opposite, and find a way through this together.
Writing about Speaker of the House, New Zealand Parliament, Jerry Brownlie
Stuff columnist
Verity Johnson
1 June, 2026
“A decade ago, British television news was awash with vox pops in the run-up to the Brexit referendum. It would be fascinating to know how firm in their views the vox popped would have dared to be, or how seriously their opinions would have been taken, if they had first been asked to briefly explain the difference between the European Commission and the European Council, list the last three countries to join the EU or name the capital of Denmark.”
Sorry to burst the vox-pop bubble but most people’s opinions aren’t news
neglect of policy.
Andrew Mueller
Monocle, May 2026
“But all of this comes down to the fundamental problem that a government in an authoritarian country will only change if the people who benefit from the [status quo] lose their grip.”
Mark Manger, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs
Who is actually in charge of Cuba?
Tomas Lewis
Monocle May 2026
If an artist gets lost in the process of making art with a digital tool, as they had previously with a more traditional medium such as oil paint, why is the final output seen as less valid?
Finally! In London’s David Bowie exhibition the ‘immersive experience’ hits the right Emily Bryce-Perkins
Monocle May 2026
In a noisy world where cynics deploy their words as weapons, speaking clearly, thoughtfully and honestly has never felt more vital…
College commencement season is upon us – now is the time to tackle big ideas
Tomos Lewis
Monocle May 2026
