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Why We Wrote This

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 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.

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186 episodes

  1. 40 Years of Bearing Witness
  2. Three Days That Shook the World
  3. He Said, Xi Said
  4. Imagining First Contact
  5. A Place To Belong
  6. Chasing the Rings in Milan
  7. Notebooks and Hand Warmers
  8. Civility With a Side of Eggs
  9. What Venezuela Might Mean
  10. There Will Be Oil
  11. It Came from the Bog
  12. ‘We Went Up on the Roof’
  13. Shared Anguish, Shared Hope
  14. Asking the ‘Why’ Questions
  15. You Can’t Sneak Up on a Wolverine
  16. New Cities in an Old City’s Orbit
  17. A Sustainable, High-Tech Life
  18. To Russia, With Hope
  19. ‘The Work Is Mysterious and Important’
  20. U.S. Politics and Legal Tests
  21. How Crowd Control Evolves
  22. What Faith Looks Like Now
  23. A Kingdom of Empathy?
  24. A Mother’s Strength
  25. Reading America’s Shift: Part 2
  26. Reading America’s Shift: Part 1
  27. A Chatty Thanksgiving Primer
  28. Encore: Respect, Dignity, and Getting Along
  29. Why We Went Deep on Sudan
  30. Election Unprecedented, Part 2
  31. Election Unprecedented, Part 1
  32. Gaza’s Story, From the Inside
  33. Encore: The Power of Porches
  34. A Fuller View of Taiwan
  35. A Fight Over Students’ Phones
  36. Encore: A Zeal for Reels
  37. A Beat That’s Bigger Than Borders
  38. Scenes From the Press Pool
  39. An Alchemist of Folk
  40. Writers’ Read: Drug Use and Compassion
  41. On the Run at the Games
  42. How To Listen to the World
  43. A Climate Saga Gets Sticky
  44. Encore: Images That Bring Humanity Into Focus
  45. Can Trust Cool a Murder Rate?
  46. Title IX at 50 Plus Two
  47. Turning Trust Into Tree Cover
  48. A Kinder Brand of Capitalism
  49. A Writer’s Retrospective
  50. In Voting We Trust?