2024
March
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Monitor Daily Podcast

March 07, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

You follow the news. You can be forgiven for thinking that America is a political pushmi-pullyu: one body with a couple of divergent (and horned!) heads.

The presumption of hopelessness that suggests around, well, ever getting anywhere, is overblown.

That’s a central finding by Marshall Ingwerson, a special contributor and former top editor of the Monitor. The extremes get all the attention. But as he wrote recently – and talks about today in our weekly podcast – when it comes to most issues, hyperpartisanship is mostly what the performative fringe is selling.

Confident, free thinking counters that. And where thought is shifting, it’s often in the same general direction.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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A woman passes a home whose outer wall was demolished in a recent Israeli military raid in a residential neighborhood of Tulkarm camp, in Tulkarm, West Bank, Jan. 21, 2024.

Today’s news briefs

Patterns

Tracing global connections

Podcast

Where do Americans place trust? The answer may surprise you.

A Narrative Missed by the News

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The Utah Utes take the field at the Rose Bowl, Jan. 2, 2023, in Pasadena, California, accompanied by Utah’s new state flag.

The Monitor's View

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A woman shops in a Cairo market March 7.

A Christian Science Perspective

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People visit the Taiwan International Orchid Show in Tainan, Taiwan, March 7, 2024. Orchids are one of the most popular flowers in the world and grow in most habitats except, not surprisingly, glaciers. Tropical climes boast the most diverse array of orchids.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte and Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks for being here today. Tomorrow we’ll explore what President Joe Biden achieved (or didn’t) in his State of the Union address. We’ll also have a report from Ukraine’s eastern front with Russia, looking at what a lack of U.S. weapons and ammunition has meant for Ukrainian forces there. 

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