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Monitor Daily Podcast

August 01, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

July was a monumental news month, and August appears set to sustain the trend. We’re on it. 

In U.S. politics, the parade of “isms” – the wrongheaded application of broad, pejorative labels as a competitive tactic – may be marching now at double time. Are we entering a period of redoubled racism and sexism? Politics writer Cameron Joseph explores that question with care. 

And in what must have been an Olympian feat of diplomacy, some two dozen political prisoners from seven countries were part of a history-making swap with Russia. Diplomacy writer Howard LaFranchi is our news responder there, along with Fred Weir in Moscow.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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Relatives of Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, and Alsu Kurmasheva look on as President Joe Biden speaks about their release from detention in Russia, at the White House in Washington, Aug. 1, 2024.

Today’s news briefs

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks on a panel of the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, July 31, 2024.
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Iranians follow a truck carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard during their funeral ceremony at Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran, Aug. 1, 2024. The two were killed in an assassination Wednesday for which Israel is blamed.

Patterns

Tracing global connections

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People in Lagos, Nigeria, protest against economic hardship, Aug. 1.

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Jaqueline Dubrovich of the United States (right) competes against Canada's Jessica Zi Jia Guo in the women's team foil semifinal match at the Grand Palais in Paris, Aug. 1, 2024. The U.S. beat Canada 45-31, guaranteeing it at least a silver medal.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte and Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks for engaging with today’s Daily. Join us again tomorrow. We’re working on a story about a careful calculation for both the White House and the Harris campaign: Where and when should President Biden appear between now and November? 

Also, our “Why We Wrote This” podcast returns with a conversation between Whitney Eulich and Ryan Lenora Brown, moderated by Amelia Newcomb, on how we work with local reporters across Latin America and Africa to make our stories from those regions stronger.

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