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January 30, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Today, I am going to be shamelessly promotional. This issue of the Daily includes a wonderful story on the difficulties of reparations, even when the motives are good. Germany and Holocaust is the case study. 

But I’m going to encourage you to listen to this podcast, from our “Tulsa Rising” series several years ago about the race massacre there. It changed how I saw the issue by showing me what healing can look like. Honesty and genuine contrition not only begin to address the past but also begin to unlock the remarkable energies of a new future.    


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Today’s news briefs

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The Kremlin is seen next to the partially frozen Moskva River in Moscow, Jan. 26, 2024.
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A person leaves the snow-covered Holocaust Memorial on a wintry gray day in Berlin, Jan. 5, 2024.

Difference-maker

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“We started Miles of Freedom not because I was innocent, but because I was in prison. ... Innocent or guilty, coming home, we need help.” – Richard Miles, who was exonerated 11 years ago. He helped found Miles of Freedom, a nonprofit helping formerly incarcerated people reenter society.

The Monitor's View

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Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky unveils Airbnb's 2023 Winter Release on Nov. 7 in New York. On Jan. 23, Airbnb donated $10 million to more than 120 nonprofits as the rental giant continued its unusual distribution from its Airbnb Community Fund.

A Christian Science Perspective

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People in San-Pédro, Ivory Coast, stand next to trees decorated with the country's national colors, Jan. 30, 2024. Ivory Coast is hosting the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament. The final is on Feb. 11 in Abidjan.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte and Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. We hope you’ll come back tomorrow when we look at Israel’s Druze, a religious group that says whatever differences they had with Israeli Jews have disappeared since Oct. 7. 

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