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February 23, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

I love the Danish concept of hygge. I’m sure many of you have heard of it. Contributor Sam Laine Perfas talks about it today. In a word, it’s the “coziness” we feel being at home.

But I also love that Sam challenges us to expect more. That feeling of safety and radiant comfort should expand into more than candles and winter nights by the fire. In some ways, hygge is simply a measure of world progress – the product of a secure, balanced, meaningful life. We can help, not so much by seeking hygge, but by spreading it.   

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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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Ukrainian teacher Olha Lytenko helps pupils in a specialized one-room school designed to provide students with a sanctuary of heat, light, internet, and social interaction, even though the war's front line is often no more than 10 miles away, in Lyman, Ukraine, Feb. 19, 2024.

In a Ukraine at war, the abnormal is the new normal

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By Scott Peterson, reporting from LYMAN, Ukraine
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Today’s news briefs

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Newly recruited soldiers attend a ceremony as they celebrate the end of their training at a military base close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 25, 2023. More than 24,500 Ukrainian troops have been killed since Russia invaded two years ago, Feb. 24, 2022.

Two years of fighting: What it’s cost Ukraine and Russia

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Audience members listen as Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign stop in Georgetown, South Carolina, Feb. 22, 2024.

Why Haley focuses on her long game

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By Story Hinckley, reporting from Irmo, S.C.
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Podcast

For Harlem, can a renaissance remembered also be revived?

Finding the Soul of Harlem

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Hygge season: Learning to winter like the Danes

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By Samantha Laine Perfas
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The Monitor's View
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Ben Volta applies a protective coating on posters destined to be installed on boarded-up businesses in Philadelphia in 2020. The Center City District and Mural Arts Philadelphia program posted the original works on multiple locations in an effort to enhance the neighborhood.

Urban art as city corrective

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By the Monitor's Editorial Board
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A Christian Science Perspective

About this feature

You’re somebody special

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By Laura Lapointe
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Viewfinder

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The Odysseus lunar lander appears with the Earth in the background, Feb. 16, 2024. The image was captured shortly after separation from SpaceX’s rocket on Intuitive Machines’ first journey to the moon. You can read our story about it by clicking on the link in the Look Ahead section below.
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( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us this week. We wish you all a wonderful weekend. On Monday, we’ll come back with a story from Ken Makin about Robert Smalls, a man whose historical legacy echoes Harriet Tubman’s but is often overlooked. We’ll also look at the challenges faced by Israeli women during the war. 

Finally, we’re giving you a bonus read that connects with today’s Viewfinder image. A private company has landed a lunar spacecraft, marking America’s first return to the moon since the Apollo program. It points to a long-anticipated era in moon exploration and development. You can read the story here. 

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