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The Christian Science Monitor Daily Podcast
The editors of The Christian Science Monitor take you beyond the headlines with the ideas driving progress in this 15-minute news briefing. The Monitor Daily Podcast is available each Monday through Friday at 6 pm ET. For more information on the Daily or The Christian Science Monitor, visit csmonito...
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Friday, October 17, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As the Justice Department moves to indict people President Donald Trump says have done him wrong, the weaponization of the legal system is pushing the...
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case asking whether using race as a factor in congressional maps violates the Constitution. If the justice...
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case asking whether using race as a factor in congressional maps violates the Constitution. If the justice...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
With harvest under way, China’s response to President Trump’s tariffs has frozen America’s soybean farmers out of the huge Chinese market. A soybean d...
Saturday, October 11, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The organization Shakespeare Behind Bars has helped violent offenders rediscover their humanity. In this story, two murderers come to “be wise hereaft...
Saturday, October 11, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The organization Shakespeare Behind Bars has helped violent offenders rediscover their humanity. In this story, two murderers come to “be wise hereaft...
Friday, October 10, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As Israel and Hamas finalize the first phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, many in the region are focused on what can go wrong after two year...
Thursday, October 9, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
California has spent decades trying to extinguish fires. But residents here are embracing the long-held Indigenous practice of coming together to inte...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Portland, Oregon, is an epicenter of protests and the legal battle over President Donald Trump’s depl...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
On the second anniversary of the massacre that ignited the war in Gaza, Dina Kraft, the Monitor’s correspondent in Israel, reflects on how Oct. 7 has...
Saturday, October 4, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Federal workers who have experienced previous government shutdowns say the uncertainty is always stressful. But this one already feels worse, multiple...
Friday, October 3, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
High-ranking women say they are watching the gains they spent their careers building being erased. Despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech on...
Thursday, October 2, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Portland, Oregon, is the latest city where President Donald Trump is activating National Guard troops for novel use in a fight against crime and illeg...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Two recent mass-shooting suspects are decorated U.S. combat veterans. The events renew concerns about how America cares for veterans – including in re...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had accepted a U.S. plan for Gaza. But prospects for ending the war lean on A...
Saturday, September 27, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The indictment of former FBI director James Comey, which President Donald Trump demanded on social media, comes amid threats of more prosecutorial act...
Friday, September 26, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Part of the Trump administration’s immigration clampdown involves encouraging unauthorized immigrants to “self-deport” by offering cash and other ince...
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
More food is reaching Gaza now but barely enough to stave off famine amid the chaos of forced displacement, which was ordered by the Israeli army.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As the United Nations General Assembly opened in New York, President Donald Trump told member states that immigration and green hoaxes are the key thr...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Gaza's high school graduation exams are seen as far more than an individual academic accomplishment. They are a step into adulthood, carrying both you...
Saturday, September 20, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Funding the government is ultimately a must-pass priority for Congress. But with votes from both parties needed, it’s also an opportunity for the mino...
Friday, September 19, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The sidelining of comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show could signal a wider chilling effect on free speech, under pressure from President Donald Tr...
Thursday, September 18, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The Federal Reserve’s mission, outlined by Congress, is to spur job growth while keeping inflation under control. Its objectives have grown trickier t...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Republicans have long railed against “cancel culture” and blamed the left for seeking to curb free speech. Now, they are catching criticism on the sam...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
By 2027, the hard right could govern economies worth roughly half of European GDP, the Economist said earlier this month. “It’s about time the governm...
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The U.S. has entered a new age of political violence, evidenced by the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Those who work in conflict...
Friday, September 12, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Inflation posted a 2.9% annual rate in August, up from 2.3% in April. Job creation has slowed sharply. These key indicators put pressure on Republican...
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Chinese students and scholars have long made up the largest foreign scientific community in America, a major talent pool. The Trump administration has...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Rather than replacing workers, AI is making humans more productive, the evidence so far suggests.
In today’s stories, we look at the Trump admi...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Reading and math skills among U.S. high school seniors have fallen to their lowest levels on record, according to an upcoming report. “If we are serio...
Saturday, September 6, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
A sizable number of teens and young adults in the U.S. are not in school, employed, or in job training. Civic leaders want to reconnect them to a path...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
President Trump, citing high crime, said Monday that he is placing the District of Columbia police department under federal control and deploying the...
Saturday, August 9, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
While Black Lives Matter protests may not have brought lasting reforms nationwide, in Sanford, Florida, the town where Treyvon Martin was killed in 20...
Friday, August 8, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Russia's military presence on a narrow sandbar controlling a major Black Sea access point has badly disrupted Ukraine's economy. What can Kyiv do abou...
Thursday, August 7, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Japan is the only country in the world to have experienced nuclear war. As the country marks the 80th anniversary of the United States’ bombing of Hir...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
In Florida, National Guard troops were activated to support Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers in nine cities. The move is part of a larger e...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Famine is threatening tens of thousands in Gaza. To avert it, humanitarian assistance must ramp up fast, experts say.
Also in today’s stories:...
Saturday, August 2, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
While elite institutions shaped the pandemic response, critics say they sidelined dissenting views, deepening distrust and contributing to Donald Trum...
Friday, August 1, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The international community has unified around the question of Palestinian statehood, diverging from the U.S. and Israel. But will it make a differenc...
Thursday, July 31, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Growing global outrage over the hunger crisis in Gaza has many asking if Israel had a deliberate policy of starving civilians. Israelis say that was n...