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Amelia Newcomb
Senior editor

Bill O'Reilly's departure from Fox News was a reminder of how a corrosive environment where harassment goes unchecked or powerful figures go uncensured drags everyone down. But superficial change in the heat of public scandal is unlikely to sustain itself. More important are actions that match words. Tomorrow, we'll share some views from companies that are setting high standards for behavior as they build thriving workplaces.

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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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An anti-government protesters holding an inverted national flag faced down state security forces in Caracas, Venezuela, April 19. Opponents of President Nicolás Maduro called on Venezuelans to march against the embattled socialist leader.

Latin America: Can Trump ‘lead from behind’?

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By Howard LaFranchi, reporting from Washington
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A woman heads to a yoga class in East Atlanta, Ga., in Dekalb County. The county is a Democratic stronghold, with large African-American and Hispanic populations and a significant number of white liberals, many of them from elsewhere.

What a Georgia election says about the suburbs

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By Patrik Jonsson, reporting from Brookhaven, Ga.
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Social media’s moment of self-examination

( 5 min. read )

By Michael B. Farrell
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Points of Progress

What's going right
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In this April 23, 2015 file photo, members of the Baltimore Police Department stand guard outside the department's Western District police station during a protest in response to Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore.

States claim rising role in police reform

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By Henry Gass
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Vera Institute of Justice

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In nature, ‘helping behavior’ may run deep

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By Eoin O'Carroll
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North Korean woman and child wash vegetables in the Yalu River in Sinuiju, North Korea, April 17.

Why North Korea may be a threat to itself

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By The Monitor's Editorial Board
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A Christian Science Perspective

About this feature

Standing on ‘holy ground’ this Earth Day

( 3 min. read )

By Georgianna Pfost
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A message of love

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Still partners in space: The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft – carrying the crew of Jack Fischer of the US and Fyodor Yurchikhin of Russia – blasts off on its mission to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 20.
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( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

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