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November 18, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Read our first two stories today, and one thing jumps out. The Trump administration is looking like it will take a blowtorch to business as usual in Washington, from health to immigration and beyond. 

But the thing about disruption is that it is ... disruptive. And if this election was about anything, it was a reminder that everything comes back to how voters feel about the economy. Mr. Trump’s challenge will be in pulling the levers that lead to economic regeneration and avoiding those that only add to the political circus.  


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Today’s stories

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks ahead of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Macomb Community College, Nov. 1, 2024, in Warren, Michigan.

Today’s news briefs

The Explainer

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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Climate Policy Initiative

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Difference-maker

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Thanda Ko Gyi frees a starfish from entanglement underwater. In 2018, she launched Myanmar Ocean Project, the country’s first registered marine conservation organization.

In Pictures

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A DEEPLY FELT TRADITION: As his young children watch, Kanubek Asangulov sews the felt covering for a yurt, in Kyzyl Tuu, Kyrgyzstan.

The Monitor's View

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In Colombo, Sri Lanka, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, right, hands over official documents to Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya during the swearing-in of new Cabinet members, Nov. 18.

A Christian Science Perspective

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Jason Moore and his two-year-old daughter, Sienna, visit NightGarden, an annual holiday experience featuring thousands of lights and special effects, at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida, on Nov. 15, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Please come back tomorrow for one of the recent cover stories from our Monitor Weekly magazine – a look at new research, which shows that many animals exhibit signs of having rich inner lives. How should this affect how we see them – and ourselves? 

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