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We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Unlike molecules within solids, the electrons and holes within the dropleton do not stay put instead they float within the boundaries of the semiconductor.īut they are also different from particles inside liquids, in that they have a size limit, beyond which electron-hole pairs cease to exist.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: The particles, which carry no electric charge, are so small that they behave according to the violently counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics. The pulses initially formed excitons, but with an increase in the intensity of the light, even more electron-hole pairs were formed, resulting in the formation of this 'new stable configuration of charged particles,' Dr. Cundiff told the Monitor. The researchers discovered the dropleton after they passed high-intensity red laser beam emitting about 100 million pulses per second through a gallium-arsenide semiconductor, such as the kind found in LEDs and in some cellphones.

The pairing (brought about by electrostatic attraction) that takes place between electrons and the holes form 'excitons.' “In the long run, you often see that systems can be repaired step by step, and that public confidence then grows again.” And in building a more perfect union, there are lessons to be learned. “In the short run, people will lose some of their trust in democracy” when former leaders are taken to court, Sam Van der Staak of the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance told the Monitor in January. Our lead story today, by Peter Grier and Noah Robertson, looks at the latest indictment in more depth.Whatever the outcome, Americans can eat a bit of humble pie. Trump is deeply divided, with many Americans saying the latest charges – and a previous, civil indictment in New York – are politically driven.

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His trial is ongoing.In the United States, opinion on Mr.

Israel is another example: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced indictment, was voted out, and then returned to office. Some leaders, as in Brazil, have served time in prison for corruption, then been reelected. From France, Israel, and South Korea to Argentina and Brazil, other nations have shown that former leaders can be held to account – even sent to prison – and the country survives.No one is above the law. Trump leads polls for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 makes his indictment all the more consequential. The implications for the future of American governance could be profound.Still, Americans can take heart in the lessons of other democracies, as the Monitor explained in a magazine cover story last January. president to face federal criminal charges. The fact that Mr. A sense of exceptionalism has long infused pride in the American system and successes as the world’s oldest democracy.That self-image is taking a hit with the federal indictment of Donald Trump over alleged mishandling of classified documents, making him the first former U.S. Throughout history, American leaders have borrowed from the Bible in calling their nation a “city upon a hill” – a beacon of hope for humanity.

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