2024
February
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Thursday

Monitor Daily Podcast

February 08, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

Enmity can run so deep that the prospect of easing it seems nonexistent. Israel and Hamas sit in that category. 

Still, the elevation last week of a Sinn Fein leader to first deputy for Northern Ireland could scarcely have been imagined in the years of nail-bomb separatism, understatedly known as the Troubles. It took time. The agreement that cooled those hostilities dates back 26 years. 

Columnist Ned Temko takes a clear-eyed view of global events. He’s also inclined to showcasing informed, credible hope. In his October appearance on our weekly podcast, Ned expressed long-term optimism about a Middle East solution. Today, in his Patterns column, he mines history to outline a possible path to progress there. 


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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Lead plaintiff Norma Anderson, accompanied by Jason Murray (right), the lead attorney behind the Colorado voters’ lawsuit seeking to remove presidential candidate Donald Trump from the ballot, addresses the media outside the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington.

Today’s news briefs

A deeper look

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People stand in a line to cast their ballots during a presidential election in Espoo, Finland, Jan. 28.

Patterns

Tracing global connections

On Film

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Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) and Dodin (Benoît Magimel) create culinary masterpieces in “The Taste of Things.”

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People in Dakar, Senegal, protest last May against the possibility of President Macky Sall running for a third term in the next elections.

A Christian Science Perspective

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Colombia’s Melisa Ceballos Correa and Estefania Roa Bernal perform during the women’s duet free finals in artistic swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Feb. 8, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte and Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks, as always, for reading the Daily. Tomorrow, our Las Vegas-based writer, Jackie Valley, will look at her city’s transformation – much of it owing to pro sports – as that city gears up for Super Bowl weekend, along with fans of American-style football everywhere. 

Also, Editor Mark Sappenfield joins our “Why We Wrote This” podcast to talk about our Rebuilding Trust project and more. 

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