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