To understand the news is to understand how the struggle over these qualities shapes our experience worldwide. The qualities that drive world events – justice, equality, compassion, trust, honesty – know no borders. But what does the Monitor do best? I would argue that it offers a transformative view of the world itself – that the human story is more interconnected and more hopeful than much media coverage would have us believe. What papers usually do best is cover their own communities. Generally speaking, international news doesn’t sell in the United States. It was time to do that before my kids are no longer kids (which will be shockingly soon).Yet the fact that the editor of The Christian Science Monitor will live in Germany for a year does say something important. The trend is for American newspapers to be scaling back international coverage. This is about my family – the fact that I am the only member without German citizenship, and yet we have never lived in Germany.

You should not expect the chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung to announce a seven-part Monitor series on Oktoberfest. By next week, I will be living in Berlin. No, I am not part of some editor exchange program.

Tell me why beatles