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July 11, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

Military wins and losses can provide a real-time scorecard for war. The deeper story of conflict is one of long-simmering preconditions, calculated instigations, and shifts in the support being shown to the warring sides. 

It’s about plans that form for “the day after.” 

The question of what, exactly, Hamas has wanted since its insurgents launched a deadly raid last October in Israel has persisted. In our remarkable top story today, Taylor Luck leverages deep access and a wealth of regional context to explore how the militant group’s political strategy has evolved.


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David Nixon, who manages daily operations, poses in the overdose prevention site at the nonprofit ANKORS in Nelson, British Columbia, April 25, 2024. The group works on harm reduction and offers support to those with addictions, which includes testing drugs for safe supply.
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An air tanker drops red-colored flame retardant behind a home while battling the Toll Fire near Calistoga, California, July 2, 2024. An extended heat wave blanketing Northern California has resulted in red-flag fire warnings and power shut-offs.

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Why a climate scientist’s moment of truth became a complicated story to report

A Climate Saga Gets Sticky

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Colman Domingo (left) and Clarence Maclin star in “Sing Sing.” Mr. Maclin was one of the original performers in “Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code,” an original play produced in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York.

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Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille listens to a colleague at his swearing-in ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 3, 2024.

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A kayaker paddling along the River Thames in Sonning, England, passes an art installation of an ATM attached to Sonning Bridge, July 9. The work is attributed to the artist who goes by the name Impro.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thanks for being here today. Come back tomorrow. We’ll take you to Portugal to wrap our three-part series on the varied effects of drug decriminalization, and to France, where preparing for a turn on the Olympics stage has meant confronting homelessness in Paris and how it might look to the world.

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