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January 19, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

There is an unspoken truth in journalism: You find what you look for. There is undeniable anguish and inhumanity in Israel and Gaza. We have reported on it extensively. But there is also hope and light in the darkness. Just read Taylor Luck’s story today.  

Many organizations don’t look for these things because they think they’re not there or not news – that they’re comparatively unimportant or even naive. We disagree in the most vehement terms. These things are the seeds of any viable future, the substance of any potential progress. That makes them not only news, but also absolutely essential news.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

Today’s news briefs

Taylor Luck
Beit Jann Mayor Radi Najm (left) greets a contractor working on a new park on a hill overlooking Lebanon, even as concerns grow about a renewed Israel-Hezbollah war, in the Druze village of Beit Jann in northern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024.
Carlos Barria/Reuters
Alejandra Perez (center), her former partner Jader Castro (right), and her children Sharlott Barrios (left), age 9, and Juan Sebastian Castro, 5, who are all Colombian asylum-seekers, leave after applying for housing at a city government office in downtown Chicago, Oct. 26, 2023.
Jack Thompson
Farmers in Ndiob, Senegal, are experimenting with "zaï" planting pits, an ancient practice to conserve moisture even during acute droughts.

Essay

Jules Struck

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An Israeli soldier examines a residential building after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, Jan. 11.

A Christian Science Perspective

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Stephane Mahe/Reuters
La Villa Cheminée (The Chimney Villa), a tiny hotel, sits atop a 50-foot tower near Nantes, France, Jan. 19, 2024. Built in 2009 by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, it overlooks the Loire River. Its base echoes those of the towers of France’s largest thermal power plant, which is located nearby, behind the hotel. The view is breathtaking around the clock, but the area is fully quiet only after work has stopped for the day at the power plant.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us this week. We’ll be back Monday with more on preparations for the New Hampshire presidential primary, as well as developments in the Middle East.

For those of you who read our weekly political roundup last Friday and sent in feedback, thank you! We will not have a roundup this week, as we are taking all your comments into consideration. We’ll keep in touch about our next steps.

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