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April 17, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

The pandemic showed that people struggle with uncertainty. Reading our two stories today on migration, it strikes me that here is another crisis of uncertainty.

These three things are true: People under enormous stress will move to seek safety and opportunity. There is no easy way to absorb them. There is a moral demand to treat them humanely. 

Politically, that adds up to uncertainty. There is no clear policy solution. Yet perhaps we can find a different kind of certainty: a conviction that we can do better, for everyone. There will be no one solution, no perfect solution. But the Monitor has spent more than 115 years (and a good chunk of today’s issue) seeking ways forward. We can be certain that more are waiting to be found.


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Today’s stories

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Today’s news briefs

Nick Squires
Abandoned clothing lies on a mountain trail near Tripiti Beach, where most migrant boats arrive on the Greek island of Gavdos.
Ghada Abdulfattah
Palestinian children stand in line for a hot meal for their lunch in a camp for people who are displaced, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, March 27, 2024.
Beth Garrabrant
Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” comes out April 19.

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A student of Kyiv State Arts Academy in Ukraine paints as volunteers clear rubble after a Russian missile struck the Academy on March 30.

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A worker gives a statue of King Sejong some post-winter sparkle in Gwanghwamun Square, in Seoul, South Korea, April 16, 2024. King Sejong, the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), created the Korean alphabet, Hangul, in 1446.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Please come back tomorrow when Ned Temko looks at the array of countries that helped protect Israel from Iranian missiles on Saturday night, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It was a foretaste of the sort of regional arrangement Israel might one day enjoy, if it offers an internationally acceptable resolution of the Palestinian issue. 

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