The Christian Science Monitor Daily Podcast

Our editor shares a personal connection between his family and Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose extraordinary life was portrayed in “Hidden Figures.” Also: the shape of President Trump's smaller government, America’s billionaire backlash, and the return of ‘safer’ land mines. Join the Monitor's Dave Scott and Kendra Nordin Beato for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

New week, new worries? Try changing your focus. Around the world, people are finding solutions to societal problems based on consensus and respect. Also: What makes Bernie Sanders’s supporters so passionate, what Harvey Weinstein’s trial says about #MeToo, and a reckoning with the dark sides of France’s cultural elite. Join the Monitor's Clayton Collins and Lindsey McGinnis for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry only follow one account on Instagram. No, it isn’t the social media site for Netflix’s series “The Crown.” The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are highlighting Global Positive News. Also: our five stories, including President Trump’s visit to India, tensions over some adoption agency policies, the economic challenges of the coronavirus, and an innovation in the mining industry. Join the Monitor's Stephen Humphries and Samantha Laine Perfas for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

Last night’s Democratic debate was fantastic – not because any particular candidate “won” or “lost,” but because the candidates took the gloves off and went after each other. In the process, we the people learned something. Also: our five stories, including the rising political influence of American Latinos, electoral disillusionment in Iran, and life in an increasingly overcrowded refugee camp. Join the Monitor's Linda Feldmann and Nate Richards for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

Today is a Day of Remembrance for Japanese Americans. On February 19th, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to move Japanese immigrants to internment camps, and the date marks a time to consider the lessons of that legacy. Also: our five stories, which examine the potential Taliban peace deal, President Trump’s pardons, and expanding opportunity in Brooklyn. Join the Monitor's Mark Sappenfield and Jessica Mendoza for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

Surveying from a prison cell in 1930, the Communist thinker Antonio Gramsci came up with a pithy observation. “The old is dying and the new cannot be born,” he wrote in his diary. “In this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Today, nearly 100 years later, a similar sense of uncertainty besets the world, and in today’s Christian Science Monitor we launch an ambitious series of articles exploring the reasons for that. Also: The first in the Monitor’s “Navigating uncertainty” series, a clarifying look at fears surrounding coronovirus, and a search for justice for Flint, Michigan. Join the Monitor's Peter Ford and Molly Jackson for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

What makes a good president? There’s a shortlist of talents. But the most important, according to a scholar who spent his life evaluating White House occupants, is just two words: Emotional intelligence. Also: our five stories, which include a tale of justice deferred, lessons for the pursuit of peace, and another way to say “I love you.” Join the Monitor's Peter Grier and Kendra Nordin Beato for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

Kindness is often considered something that humans have to learn. But displays of altruism in surprising places suggest there’s more to the story. Also: a politician who’s bucking the old rules of politics, the small African country that took a big stand, and why Germans are souring on wind farms. Join the Monitor's Yvonne Zipp and Timmy Broderick for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

Ireland has done what was once unthinkable. Also: moves this week by the U.S. Justice Department have ethicists concerned, what’s behind the somewhat muted reaction to the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan, and a trio of new instruments might reveal the sun’s mysteries. Join the Monitor's Mark Sappenfield and Rebecca Asoulin for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

The coronavirus story, to date, has mostly been a narrative of fear and rising, faceless numbers. But for Hong Kong-based journalist Yuli Yang, it’s personal. She grew up in Wuhan, China. Her parents are OK, but struggling with three weeks of quarantine and the death of a friend. Alsoin today's news, a look at privacy vs. safety in Brazil, the rise of a four-day work week, and signs of progress worldwide. Join the Monitor's Dave Scott and Jessica Mendoza for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.