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Monitor Daily Podcast

January 03, 2025
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

A vast number of partisan political battles in the United States are in dire need of a dollop of common sense. That’s not to say the solutions are easy. But there’s almost always some practical step forward if people are willing to back off partisan talking points.

Today’s story about H-1B visas is a great case in point. For President-elect Donald Trump – and the nation – there are pitfalls, yes. But perhaps more opportunity.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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Incoming members of the 119th Congress (from left) Jeff Hurd, Kelly Morrison, Julie Johnson, April McClain Delaney, and Gabe Evans walk down the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2024.

The Explainer

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Linda McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder and former president, speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024. Ms. McMahon has been nominated by Donald Trump to serve as Education secretary.
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Millicent Miruka, a community health worker, speaks to patients at their house in the western Kenyan county of Migori, July 18, 2024.

Difference-maker

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Pamela Bosley (left) and Annette Nance-Holt, co-founders of Purpose Over Pain, display photos of their sons, Terrell Bosley and Blair Holt, outside St. Sabina Church in Chicago.

The Monitor's View

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European Council President Antonio Costa meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the day of an official opening of the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union, in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 3, 2025.

A Christian Science Perspective

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Visitors take selfies in front of a sculpture of a tiger made with flowers at the Ahmedabad International Flower Show in Ahmedabad, India, Jan. 3, 2025. The exhibits feature more than 50 species of flowers and 30-plus flower sculptures.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us this week. We hope you’ll come back Monday for our look at how public opinion in the United States has evolved four years on from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioting.

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