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January 10, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

The biggest enemy of the news is apathy. Breaking news settles into patterns. Patterns repeat. Attention wanes. 

That is why I encourage you to read Ghada Abdulfattah’s story of her flight to safety. She’s been writing about internal displacement in Gaza for weeks. Yet there is something about someone’s own story – the story of someone we know – that shakes and awakens.

It is not the Monitor’s job to decide for nations or readers the matters of war and security. But it is the Monitor’s job never to accept that inhumanity anywhere must be inevitable. 


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Displaced Palestinians, who fled their homes due to Israeli strikes, ride a vehicle in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 8, 2024.
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Taiwan's Nationalist Party presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih waves to supporters from a motorcade in Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 9, 2024. China has described Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections as a choice between war and peace.

How women’s employment hit a record high in US

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Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Policy Institute

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LA street artist S.C. Mero sits inside her performance studio, Something Poetic, Nov. 7, 2023. The banana is part of a series she created about “bad citizens” – in this case, someone who had littered became the litter.

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A woman casts her vote in Lagos, Nigeria, during a 2023 election.

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A boy speaks on gun violence and urges lawmakers to use their power to make changes ahead of the start of Tennessee’s 2024 legislative session, Jan. 9. Last year’s Covenant School shooting and protests rocked the state capitol in Nashville. The shooting killed three students and three staff members.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Tomorrow, we’ll have two stories about important developments in the year ahead. The first looks at how the Supreme Court is unexpectedly having a much bigger year than the justices anticipated – or probably wanted. We’ll also explore the ramifications of “the year of the election.” More than half the world’s adults will vote this year. What will that mean?

We hope you’ll come back for those stories and more.   

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