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January 07, 2025
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Today’s Daily reminds me why the Monitor matters. Stephanie Hanes shows intimately how one Florida town speaks to the changes being wrought by fiercer storms worldwide. And Kate Okorie gives us a glimpse of what the world can be when resilience is met with an embrace.

Both stories reject the blinding tendency to focus only on short-term crisis. Instead, they explore different aspects of two key global trends – extreme weather and war. In the process, the authors help us see the world differently and more deeply.


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Niveen (left) stands with some of her family outside their tent on the coast of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Jan. 5, 2025. Niveen says she encourages her children to rub their feet together to stay warm.
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Sand is piled high on the beach after hurricanes Helene and Milton’s storm surge flooded Manasota Key, Dec. 8, 2024, in Englewood, Florida. Crews are working to spread the sand back onto the beach.
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Martine Postma (in red shirt) interacts with repairers at the Repair Café XL event at The Hague.

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A government flyer offering a reward for information leading to the capture of Edmundo González Urrutia, in Caracas, Jan. 7, 2025. The Venezuelan opposition leader, seen as the legitimate president-elect, has vowed to return to be inaugurated as president on Friday.

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Yu Xiaofeng leaps into an 8 degree Fahrenheit pool carved from ice on the Songhua River, in Harbin, China, Jan. 7, 2025. Ms. Yu says winter swimming in Harbin, known as the city of ice and located close to the Russian border, dates to the 1970s. That's when residents saw Russian Orthodox faithful being baptized in the river. A winter swimming association was established in 1983.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Please come back tomorrow, when Sarah Matusek explains what a “sanctuary jurisdiction” is and how that status is likely to come into play during the incoming Trump administration.

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