Why We Wrote This

By The Christian Science Monitor

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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 today’s headlines we find respect, resilience, dignity, agency, and hope. “Why We Wrote This” shows how. The Monitor is an award-winning, nonpartisan news organization with bureaus around the globe. Visit CSMonitor.com/whywewrotethis to learn more.

Episode Date
To Russia, With Hope
Apr 03, 2025
‘The Work Is Mysterious and Important’
Mar 19, 2025
U.S. Politics and Legal Tests
Feb 20, 2025
How Crowd Control Evolves
Feb 06, 2025
What Faith Looks Like Now
Jan 24, 2025
A Kingdom of Empathy?
Jan 10, 2025
A Mother’s Strength
Jan 03, 2025
Reading America’s Shift: Part 2
Dec 13, 2024
Reading America’s Shift: Part 1
Dec 06, 2024
A Chatty Thanksgiving Primer
Nov 22, 2024
Encore: Respect, Dignity, and Getting Along
Nov 08, 2024
Why We Went Deep on Sudan
Nov 01, 2024
Election Unprecedented, Part 2
Oct 22, 2024
Election Unprecedented, Part 1
Oct 21, 2024
Gaza’s Story, From the Inside
Oct 11, 2024
Encore: The Power of Porches
Oct 04, 2024
A Fuller View of Taiwan
Sep 27, 2024
A Fight Over Students’ Phones
Sep 20, 2024
Encore: A Zeal for Reels
Sep 12, 2024
A Beat That’s Bigger Than Borders
Sep 06, 2024
Scenes From the Press Pool
Aug 30, 2024
An Alchemist of Folk
Aug 23, 2024
Writers’ Read: Drug Use and Compassion
Aug 16, 2024
On the Run at the Games
Aug 08, 2024
How To Listen to the World
Aug 02, 2024
A Climate Saga Gets Sticky
Jul 11, 2024
Encore: Images That Bring Humanity Into Focus
Jul 03, 2024
Can Trust Cool a Murder Rate?
Jun 28, 2024
Title IX at 50 Plus Two
Jun 21, 2024
Turning Trust Into Tree Cover
Jun 14, 2024
A Kinder Brand of Capitalism
Jun 07, 2024
A Writer’s Retrospective
May 31, 2024
In Voting We Trust?
May 24, 2024
Where Black Women Reclaim Power
May 17, 2024
Looking for Trust as India Votes
May 10, 2024
Writer’s Read: What Gaza’s Women Endure
May 02, 2024
Telling Stories Readers Can’t Resist
Mar 30, 2024
When Trump Speaks, What’s Heard?
Mar 25, 2024
Writer’s Read: A Different Border Tale
Mar 13, 2024
#MeToo, French Edition
Mar 08, 2024
A Narrative Missed by the News
Feb 29, 2024
Writer’s Read: Trust and the Texas Grid
Feb 23, 2024
Finding the Soul of Harlem
Feb 20, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Real Learning
Feb 13, 2024
Introducing ‘Rebuilding Trust’
Feb 01, 2024
Nordic Norm? The ‘Just Enough’ Life
Jan 24, 2024
Understanding Evangelicals
Jan 12, 2024
Life at the Hub of War Coverage
Jan 09, 2024
Covering Campaign 2024
Jan 02, 2024
The Young Hands on Earth’s Thermostat
Dec 18, 2023
Picking Books That Matter
Nov 22, 2023
The Transcendent Power of ‘Swiftie’ Nation
Nov 22, 2023
What Might Curb Mass Shootings
Nov 21, 2023
One Reporter’s Guide to Gratitude
Nov 06, 2023
A Politics Writer’s Real Test
Nov 06, 2023
Respect, Dignity, and Getting Along
Nov 03, 2023
Mideast Turmoil: What’s Different This Time
Oct 17, 2023
A Zeal for Reels, Unspooled
Oct 06, 2023
Braving Rockets To Build Social Bonds
Sep 27, 2023
Rejecting an Easy, Ageist Narrative
Sep 14, 2023
This Forest is More Than the Trees
Sep 11, 2023
A Writer’s Wrexham Moment
Sep 01, 2023
How Lahaina Looks Forward
Aug 16, 2023
Images That Bring Humanity Into Focus
Aug 10, 2023
What Debates Really Mean
Aug 07, 2023
The Rise of the Microschool?
Aug 07, 2023
Where Disinformation Gets Destroyed
Aug 07, 2023
Honoring History on the Carolina Coast
Jul 31, 2023
Sowing Agency in Malawi
Jul 18, 2023
Mideast’s Makers of Change
Jul 16, 2023
A Reporting Team’s Supreme Test
Jul 10, 2023
Resilience: Inside the ‘Other China’
Jul 07, 2023
Reckoning With Reparations
Jun 14, 2023
The Compassion Solution
May 26, 2023
War Stories, Part 2
May 26, 2023
The Politics of Trans Care
May 18, 2023
An Oil Giant Sees Green
May 15, 2023
The Power of Porches
May 11, 2023
In Uruguay, Democracy Done Better?
Apr 18, 2023
A Pivotal Politician, A Fuller View
Apr 14, 2023
A Cross-Border Welcome
Apr 05, 2023
New Allies in the Climate Fight
Mar 31, 2023
Voices From the Street
Mar 27, 2023
The Ditch Riders
Mar 17, 2023
Where Titles Match the Tasks
Mar 07, 2023
Chatting Us Up
Mar 03, 2023
Redefining ‘Coverage’
Mar 03, 2023
A Journey Without Judgment
Feb 13, 2023
‘The Envelope, Please’
Feb 11, 2023
War Stories
Feb 02, 2023
What’s a Teacher Worth?
Jan 20, 2023
Does Mercy Have Limits?
Jan 19, 2023
The ‘Alaska Way’
Jan 10, 2023
Real People, Real Voices
Jan 10, 2023
Humanity in Focus
Dec 01, 2022
A Global Hunt for Good
Dec 01, 2022
Black Films Break Through
Dec 01, 2022
How to Farm a Hotter Planet
Nov 30, 2022
Rethinking the Workweek
Nov 14, 2022
A Child’s ‘Best Interests’
Nov 09, 2022
A Win-Win on Housing?
Nov 03, 2022
The Power of Giving Thanks
Oct 31, 2022
Keeping It Fair
Oct 19, 2022
Rebooting Conscription
Oct 05, 2022
A Writer’s Long Run
Oct 03, 2022
News That Unites and Uplifts
Oct 03, 2022
Stories From Us, Stories of Humanity
Oct 03, 2022
Introducing ‘Why We Wrote This’
Sep 27, 2022
Monitor Backstory: A shift on a power source?
Sep 16, 2022
Monitor Backstory: Finding dignity in war
Sep 07, 2022
Monitor Backstory: A deeper reading of ‘Goodnight Moon’
Aug 29, 2022
Monitor Backstory: Mining for global progress
Jul 29, 2022
Monitor Backstory: Seeing patterns in the news
Jul 29, 2022
Monitor Backstory: The real Saudi shift
Jul 19, 2022
Monitor Backstory: Covering Jan. 6
Jul 18, 2022
Monitor Backstory: Joy on a Montana shoot
Jul 18, 2022
Monitor Backstory: Where education and democracy meet
Jun 17, 2022
Monitor Backstory: Voices of Title IX
Jun 10, 2022
Say That Again: To Build A Voice
Apr 13, 2022
Say That Again: Our Listeners Speak
Apr 07, 2022
Say That Again: Language Lesson
Mar 21, 2022
Say That Again: Talking Black, With Pride
Mar 14, 2022
Say That Again: Whose Job Is It Anyway?
Mar 09, 2022
Say That Again: Hey Ma, I’m On TV!
Mar 02, 2022
Say That Again: You Are How You Sound
Feb 23, 2022
Introducing: "Say That Again?"
Feb 22, 2022
Holiday Episode No. 5: Joy
Nov 30, 2021
Holiday Episode No. 4: Hope
Nov 30, 2021
Holiday Episode No. 3: Love
Nov 30, 2021
Holiday Episode No. 2: Gratitude
Nov 29, 2021
Holiday Episode No. 1: Faith
Nov 29, 2021
Okere City: A Ugandan hub of progress
Nov 14, 2021
Theresa Betancourt: How ex-child soldiers heal
Nov 09, 2021
Daisy Hampton: Including You
Nov 09, 2021
The Travelling Telescope
Nov 09, 2021
Global Gardens: Raising confident children
Nov 09, 2021
The Grace Project
Nov 09, 2021
The Sewing Machine Project
Nov 09, 2021
A more equitable new-pilot pipeline
Oct 21, 2021
Reflections on Being Muslim in the Aftermath of 9/11
Sep 02, 2021
Stronger: The Sisters
Jul 23, 2021
Stronger: The Teacher
Jul 21, 2021
Stronger: The Service Worker
Jul 19, 2021
Stronger: The Nurse
Jul 16, 2021
Stronger: The Artist
Jul 14, 2021
Stronger: Women, Work, and the Pandemic
Jul 12, 2021
Introducing: Stronger
Jul 11, 2021
Introducing: Tulsa Rising
May 27, 2021
For the newly food insecure, help that preserves dignity
Apr 30, 2021
It’s About Time: How to Be Nicer to Future You
Apr 12, 2021
It’s About Time: The Fight for Equal Time
Apr 05, 2021
It's About Time: On the Clock
Mar 29, 2021
It’s About Time: Out of Time? You're Not Alone.
Mar 22, 2021
Bonus: Alan Lightman Talks Creativity, Time, and Einstein
Mar 18, 2021
It’s About Time: Can We Change the Past?
Mar 15, 2021
It's About Time: Why Time Flies
Mar 08, 2021
What Is Time? Introducing: It's About Time
Mar 01, 2021
21 in ‘21: Does a Pandemic Define a Generation?
Jan 28, 2021
Trusting Our Elections: Why Are Conspiracy Theories So Compelling?
Jan 19, 2021
Trusting Our Elections: What Makes Our Elections Secure?
Jan 14, 2021
Lenora Chu on the Power of Cultural Influences
Dec 23, 2020
Francine Kiefer on How One Beat Informs Another
Dec 23, 2020
Sara Miller Llana on Finding What Matters
Dec 23, 2020
Ken Makin on Race, Justice, and Hope
Dec 23, 2020
Black Wall Street: ‘Everything is Us’
Oct 30, 2020
Black Wall Street: ‘The Illusion of Inclusion’
Oct 28, 2020
Black Wall Street: ‘Their Blood Still Speaks’
Oct 27, 2020