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March 20, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Human beings can be a rather myopic lot. We feel an issue (say, immigration) is new and a crisis, when in fact it’s been around for centuries, just constantly evolving. We feel an issue (say, polarization) is unique to our particular community and perhaps uniquely unsolvable.

That’s why I love Ayen Deng Bior’s story today. She shows how the Ethiopian community is facing deep divisions and seeking answers. And in doing so, she shows how tightly we are all bound by our common humanity, and how much we can learn from – and lean on – one another. 


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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Migrants who entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Today’s news briefs

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Displaced Tigrayans line up in 2021 for food donated by local residents. The war and its attendant difficulties meant very few displaced people got enough to eat.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at Cochise College in Sierra Vista, Arizona, Feb. 6, 2024. A super PAC working on his behalf says it has enough signatures to get him on the ballot in Arizona and other key swing states.

Difference-maker

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People in Cuba walk during a power outage in the city of Bauta on March 18, the day after hundreds of Cubans protested for freedom and basic services.

A Christian Science Perspective

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A motorist is silhouetted by the setting sun as they drive through an intersection on the first day of spring, March 19, 2024, in Olathe, Kansas. In the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal equinox marks the first day of spring when the sun appears to rise “due east” and set “due west,” and day and night are nearly equal.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Please come back tomorrow when Ira Porter looks at America’s higher education system. While the system remains the envy of the rest of the world academically, Americans are losing faith in its value for one overwhelming reason: cost. 

Also, as a bonus, we have a video of Christa Case Bryant talking to the American television channel C-SPAN about congressional funding of foreign aid to Israel and Ukraine. You can watch the video here

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