2024
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Monitor Daily Podcast

October 10, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

There are times when the news cycle delivers more than most readers can mentally accommodate. We’re in one of those now. 

A pair of preelection hurricanes has many Americans focused on loss of life, property, and perhaps easy access to voting. A widening war in the Middle East has caring people everywhere concerned about those in its crossfire. 

In his Patterns column today, Ned Temko performs his usual role as master of the step-back. (He joined our podcast in 2022 to talk about making sense of the world.) Today, Ned explains why an almost “forgotten war” in Ukraine merits a slice of the world’s attention again now. He’s worth making room for.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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FEMA employee Jirau Alvaro (right) works with Daniel Mancini to complete a report on the damage to his property, Oct. 6, 2024, in rural Buncombe County near Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Today’s news briefs

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An American flag waves as Hurricane Milton approached in Orlando, Florida, Oct. 9, 2024.
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An Israeli police officer inspects the damage to a residential building caused by a rocket fired towards Israel from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Haifa, Israel, Oct. 7, 2024.

Patterns

Tracing global connections
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Visitors to the National Heirloom Exposition discover unique fruits and vegetables at the Ventura Fairgrounds in Ventura, California, Sept. 10, 2024.

The Monitor's View

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A motorcycle drives between baobab trees near Morondava, Madagascar.

A Christian Science Perspective

About this feature

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People read the book “The Vegetarian,” by Han Kang, in a bookstore in Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 10. On Thursday, Ms. Han won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature. Her work was noted for its “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

We have a bonus read for you today. Been wondering about the details of the political road map known as Project 2025, and the feasibility of implementing its recommendations? Sophie Hills offers this explainer.

For the coming days, we’re working on a report from Lebanon about the effects on Hezbollah of Israel’s sustained attacks there, and on stories from the U.S. South about the humanitarian and political impacts of back-to-back hurricanes there. 

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