2024
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Monitor Daily Podcast

February 09, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Not too long ago, I wrote an article on the Abortion Talks – six Massachusetts women on opposite sides of the issue who continued a dialogue for six years. At the end of those six years, not one participant had changed her mind. 

What was the point? Today’s article on Poland holds the answer. Building compassion can seem like a consolation prize. But it’s not. In today’s polarized world, only autocrats win all the time. For the rest of us, building compassion is the most practical way to ensure that law – in whichever direction it trends – remains temperate, thoughtful, and humane. 


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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A service member of Ukraine's coast guard is stationed at a gun on a patrol boat as a cargo ship passes by in the Black Sea, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Feb. 7, 2024.

Today’s news briefs

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President Joe Biden speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington.
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Members of polling staff start counting the votes following parliamentary elections, in Islamabad, Feb. 8, 2024. Returning officers are required to deliver the results from their constituencies to the country's Election Commission by 2 a.m. on the day after the election.
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Las Vegas Raiders players Zach Gentry (88), Jakobi Meyers (16), and Tre Tucker (11) celebrate during a game against the Denver Broncos, Jan. 7, 2024.

Podcast

Not just the news: Probing for what a story is really about

Introducing ‘Rebuilding Trust’

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Refugees who fled fighting in Myanmar have settled temporarily on the Moei River on the Thai-Myanmar border.

A Christian Science Perspective

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People tour a popular shopping street decorated with red lanterns ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year in the Shibati neighborhood of China’s Chongqing Municipality, Feb. 5. China will celebrate Lunar New Year on Feb. 10, which marks the Year of the Dragon on the Chinese zodiac.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today, and we wish you a wonderful weekend. For Monday, we’re planning to share one of our recent cover stories from the Weekly magazine. It looks at the explosion of municipal fines and fees: how they have entrapped people trying to escape poverty, and how one man is helping others escape.   

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