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Monitor Daily Podcast

May 20, 2020
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Yvonne Zipp
Features Editor

This spring has been full of changes. But we hope the changes in today’s issue will be welcome, since they were suggested by your fellow readers.

When we launched the Monitor Daily three years ago this month, it wasn’t just a new product, it was a promise to help the Monitor fit into your life and how you read the news. So many of you have said it does just that. But you’ve also pointed out how we can do better.

• A clear table of contents lets you see what we have without scrolling.
• The podcast player for the Daily’s audio version is now at the top of the edition – because many readers, we discovered, didn’t know it existed.
• We’ve clarified the purpose and function of these intros by adding a headline.
• Many of you have asked for an overview of the day’s news in addition to our five stories. So we’re including a link farther down the page to wire stories – all chosen to keep you up to date and still have a bit of that Monitor lens.

Readers have helped us test these changes, and one told us, “I feel good about the Monitor; I trust it. I expect that what I find there will have value to me.”

We hope that’s a little more apparent today. And if you have other ideas about how we can continue to improve, please let us know.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

A deeper look

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Cattle eat hay in the high desert of Farson, Wyoming, in May 2018. This spring, Wyoming passed a pioneering law that would allow ranchers to sell meat to neighbors who had bought shares in the herd.

The Explainer

On Film

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Helen Mirren stars in “The Hundred-Foot Journey” (2014). She plays the proprietor of an upscale eatery in a small French village who is outraged when an Indian family opens a restaurant across the street – 100 feet away – from hers.

The Monitor's View

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Interior designer Stephanie Jones at the design firm Bergmeyer puts up a safe distancing reminder at the company's offices in Boston.

A Christian Science Perspective

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A message of love

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A child waits with voters at a polling station during presidential elections in Gitega, Burundi, May 20, 2020. The elections went ahead under the twin stresses of simmering political violence and the pandemic.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks so much for joining us today. Tomorrow, Stephen Humphries dives into a blast from the past that is enjoying a resurgence during the pandemic: the drive-in movie.

Finally as promised, here’s a window on some faster-moving headline news that we’ll be reporting on more deeply soon.

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