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Why We Wrote This

Why We Wrote This

Készítő: The Christian Science Monitor

Who reports the news? People. And at The Christian Science Monitor, we believe that it’s our job to report each story with a sense of shared humanity. Through conversations with our reporters and editors, we explain the qualities behind our reporting that affect how we approach the news. Behind toda...

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You Can’t Sneak Up on a Wolverine

You Can’t Sneak Up on a Wolverine

We’re back from our hiatus! In this episode, we talk with Mark Sappenfield, the Monitor’s former top editor turned roaming Europe reporter and watcher...

2025-09-19 02:30:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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New Cities in an Old City’s Orbit

New Cities in an Old City’s Orbit

Nairobi is like many cities. It’s vibrant but chaotic. Well-functioning here, showing cracks in its infrastructure there. In this episode we go behind...

2025-06-05 03:30:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Sustainable, High-Tech Life

A Sustainable, High-Tech Life

A lot of technology, including some that ultimately makes us “greener,” calls for extractive practices and carries upfront costs. Its use slurps resou...

2025-05-15 03:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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To Russia, With Hope

To Russia, With Hope

How does a Saskatchewan farmer dreaming of a better life end up in rural Russia? In this episode, the Monitor’s Fred Weir, a Canadian journalist with...

2025-04-03 03:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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‘The Work Is Mysterious and Important’

‘The Work Is Mysterious and Important’

What does the hit Apple TV+ show that could be thought of as “Black Mirror” meets “Office Space” tell us about perceptions of workplace culture and Ge...

2025-03-19 09:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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U.S. Politics and Legal Tests

U.S. Politics and Legal Tests

How does a justice reporter stay focused when nearly every politics story seems to have intricate – and sometimes massive – legal ramifications? Avoid...

2025-02-20 01:30:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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How Crowd Control Evolves

How Crowd Control Evolves

What does good policing looks like when it comes to managing sometimes bristly human interactions at street protests or in rowdy sports stadiums? Writ...

2025-02-06 00:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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What Faith Looks Like Now

What Faith Looks Like Now

Who’s in the pews these days? What about those in – or adjacent to – American political leadership who proclaim religiosity even while exhibiting beha...

2025-01-24 01:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Kingdom of Empathy?

A Kingdom of Empathy?

When it comes to humanity’s relationship to Earth’s other creatures, does “dominion” really mean “stewardship”? Monitor writer Stephanie Hanes joins h...

2025-01-10 00:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Mother’s Strength

A Mother’s Strength

A new writer’s local assignment on a gun violence memorial brought him face to face with a mother whose trying experience, and her telling of it, seem...

2025-01-03 01:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Reading America’s Shift: Part 2

Reading America’s Shift: Part 2

Covering an incoming administration is about more than tracking the words and deeds of the new chief executive. Plates are shifting from the Cabinet t...

2024-12-13 01:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Reading America’s Shift: Part 1

Reading America’s Shift: Part 1

In this stretch between Election Day and the inauguration, the United States waits on a president-elect who has a long list of actions to take “on Day...

2024-12-06 01:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Chatty Thanksgiving Primer

A Chatty Thanksgiving Primer

Fresh cranberries or canned? Northern pumpkin pie or Southern sweet potato pie? An assembling of intergenerational family members, a handful of friend...

2024-11-22 01:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Encore: Respect, Dignity, and Getting Along

Encore: Respect, Dignity, and Getting Along

Another U.S. election is behind us. Can civility – deep civility, not just politeness – heal divides? Stephen Humphries, the Monitor’s chief culture w...

2024-11-08 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Why We Went Deep on Sudan

Why We Went Deep on Sudan

A land war grinds on into another winter in Europe’s east. The Mideast keeps spiraling, old enmity refueled. A U.S. presidential election claims whate...

2024-11-01 01:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Election Unprecedented, Part 2

Election Unprecedented, Part 2

Georgia’s voting-rules dispute has been given a lot of attention. So have process changes in other states, along with the standard complexities of mai...

2024-10-22 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Election Unprecedented, Part 1

Election Unprecedented, Part 1

The late-game ouster of an incumbent as candidate, state rules in flux, and back-to-back hurricanes in battleground states? Yes, the 2024 U.S. preside...

2024-10-21 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Gaza’s Story, From the Inside

Gaza’s Story, From the Inside

Amid intensifying strife and humanitarian disaster, how do you report a story like the war in Gaza accurately and compassionately? How do you recogniz...

2024-10-10 23:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Encore: The Power of Porches

Encore: The Power of Porches

Americans’ loss of social connection has long been an issue, and it worsened during the pandemic era to the point where loneliness hit epidemic levels...

2024-10-04 03:59:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Fuller View of Taiwan

A Fuller View of Taiwan

Western news reports about Taiwan tend to focus on the island’s relationships with global superpowers, notably China and the United States. The people...

2024-09-27 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Fight Over Students’ Phones

A Fight Over Students’ Phones

You wouldn’t want your kid toting a television to class. So why allow a smartphone? That’s one take on a big back-to-school issue this year. Another t...

2024-09-20 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Encore: A Zeal for Reels

Encore: A Zeal for Reels

How does the Monitor’s film critic decide what to review – especially in festival settings? For Peter Rainer, it’s about staying moored by his own lon...

2024-09-12 10:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Beat That’s Bigger Than Borders

A Beat That’s Bigger Than Borders

Hopes, fears, and hard decisions: The stories of would-be immigrants are stories that matter. So, too, are the stories and views of the many other sta...

2024-09-06 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Scenes From the Press Pool

Scenes From the Press Pool

What’s it like being in a president’s presence at big moments? What about at small ones, as when the commander-in-chief offers to buy you a burger? It...

2024-08-30 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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An Alchemist of Folk

An Alchemist of Folk

An Americana-infused folk music revival has been a surging in the United States for years now. Georgia’s Jake Xerxes Fussell has emerged as one of the...

2024-08-23 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Writers’ Read: Drug Use and Compassion

Writers’ Read: Drug Use and Compassion

Drug decriminalization is another story that often sets up as a binary debate: It's either a path to societal meltdown or a way to regulate behaviors...

2024-08-16 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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On the Run at the Games

On the Run at the Games

When a sports-loving writer gets a shot at covering an Olympic Games, the story becomes one of joyful immersion and inspired output. Ira Porter joins...

2024-08-08 06:30:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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How To Listen to the World

How To Listen to the World

Reporting straight news can be an outsider’s game: Get the facts, look for color, file on deadline, repeat. Gathering news that’s meaningful to reader...

2024-08-02 00:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Climate Saga Gets Sticky

A Climate Saga Gets Sticky

Good research can transform public knowledge. It can affect the evolution of public attitudes. But the way in which data and findings are arrayed and...

2024-07-11 03:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Encore: Images That Bring Humanity Into Focus

Encore: Images That Bring Humanity Into Focus

Photography does so much to humanize reporting. What does it mean to come at stories quite literally through the “Monitor lens” that this show explore...

2024-07-03 09:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Can Trust Cool a Murder Rate?

Can Trust Cool a Murder Rate?

Everyone loves a good counternarrative, especially when the prevailing narrative is a dire one and the counter offers credible reasons for hope – back...

2024-06-28 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Title IX at 50 Plus Two

Title IX at 50 Plus Two

What’s happening in women’s sports besides Caitlin Clark? A lot. Two years to the week since this podcast soft-launched with a conversation with write...

2024-06-21 00:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Turning Trust Into Tree Cover

Turning Trust Into Tree Cover

Urban tree loss is a widespread phenomenon that has been addressed, with different degrees of success, in cities from New York to Nashville. For multi...

2024-06-14 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Kinder Brand of Capitalism

A Kinder Brand of Capitalism

Maybe it’s because she came up through the Monitor’s Points of Progress franchise. We like how Erika Page, our Madrid-based writer, frames one big par...

2024-06-07 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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A Writer’s Retrospective

A Writer’s Retrospective

Capturing the nation’s mood in the hours after 9/11. Trading parts of a Soviet Army uniform for some “CIA trinkets.” Keeping that one big foster beagl...

2024-05-31 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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In Voting We Trust?

In Voting We Trust?

To some degree, members of one major political party or the other have historically swung into distrust mode when it comes to elections – typically (a...

2024-05-24 00:30:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Where Black Women Reclaim Power

Where Black Women Reclaim Power

What might help give Black women more agency and control around their care when it comes to maternal health? It’s a realm in which positive outcomes h...

2024-05-17 02:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Looking for Trust as India Votes

Looking for Trust as India Votes

What does it take to run a democratic election in a nation of 1.4 billion people? Well, time, for one thing. And as the 40-plus-day process has been e...

2024-05-09 23:36:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Writer’s Read: What Gaza’s Women Endure

Writer’s Read: What Gaza’s Women Endure

“I grew up in Gaza, loved it – and complained about it for most of the time.” From that honest starting point of resilience, writer Ghada Abdulfattah,...

2024-05-01 23:00:00 Időtartam ismeretlen
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Telling Stories Readers Can’t Resist

Telling Stories Readers Can’t Resist

What does it take to weave a creative nonfiction tale that’s engaging and universal enough to draw readers all the way through? Owen Thomas, a longtim...

2024-03-30 02:33:39 Időtartam ismeretlen
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