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Monitor Daily Podcast

January 17, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

So much seems to be going wrong in today’s Daily. Congress’ budget stalemate continues. Those pushing for peace in the Middle East  feel more marginalized than ever. And the weather is going berserk.

Then I read about Morris Brown College. It should be dead. It lost accreditation and had 20 students at one point. Yet here it is, on the way back. What Morris Brown needed was a “hard reset,” the college’s president told the Monitor’s Ira Porter.

His story is a much-needed reminder. With honesty, tough choices, and absolute conviction, the impossible can become possible.


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Today’s news briefs

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Vineyard Wind’s offshore turbine blades and towers are prepared for deployment at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal in Massachusetts. Towers and blades are loaded onto barges and transported to the offshore wind farm 12 nautical miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.

Q&A

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Patrick Sahr shovels snow in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. Heavy lake-effect snow was forecast in Buffalo, with up to 4 inches an hour expected through the afternoon. City Hall closed and school districts declared snow days. The winter blast comes days after a storm that delayed an NFL playoff game for a day.

In Pictures

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A student stands to recite a lesson in a school in Mirpur for children who have never been to school or who have dropped out.

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The statue of a woman with a Confederate flag is removed from the top of the “Women of the Southland” monument in Jacksonville, Florida, on Dec. 27, 2023. The pursuit of equality has many fronts. Many companies are starting to define diversity on the individual talents and intrinsic worth of their employees.

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A group that calls itself The Endorphins gathers for a sunrise swim in the chilly waters of Lake Ontario during freezing temperatures in Toronto, Canada, Jan. 17, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte and Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

We’re so glad you could join us today. Tomorrow, we’ll take a look at the legal principle at issue in the challenge against former President Donald Trump’s place on the 2024 ballot in Colorado, as well as the political landscape in New Hampshire ahead of the primaries. In Europe, they’re considering the question: How do we keep support for Ukraine strong even if U.S. support disappears?

We’ll also explore how a tradition of respect and solidarity is helping one community in India overcome tensions between Jews and Muslims during the Israel-Hamas war.    

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