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Monitor Daily Podcast

May 31, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Perhaps the sanest advice Peter Grier received in his illustrious 45-year journey as a Monitor writer came, appropriately enough, from his wife. “This is crazy,” she said as he pulled an all-nighter to write our signature post-9/11 story. “You need to go to bed.”

Peter ignored the advice. Repeatedly. Whether it was all-nighters or unreasonably tight deadlines, Peter had a habit of making the very difficult look effortless. Today, with Peter on the cusp of retirement, Gail Russell Chaddock chats and laughs with him about one of the most portentous Monitor careers of recent decades – his own. 


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Firefighters work at the site of the Kids and Youth Sport Riding School, which was heavily damaged by Russian missile strikes, in the village of Mala Danylivka, outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 30, 2024.
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A farm is flooded with water July 11, 2023, in Williston, Vermont. The flash flooding in central and southern Vermont led state lawmakers to passing the Climate Superfund legislation, which became a first-of-its-kind law May 30, 2024.

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Donald Trump, far left, watches as a jury foreperson delivers guilty verdicts to Judge Juan Merchan in Manhattan Criminal Court, May 30.

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Ukrainian prisoners of war enjoy their first moments of freedom after a prisoner swap with Russia, at an unknown location in Ukraine, May 31, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. We’ll send you off into your weekend with a bonus read. Boeing has had its share of bad press recently over safety issues on its commercial airliners. It’s hoping that the launch of its new Starliner spacecraft tomorrow will provide a reset. You can read the story here.  

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