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CSMonitor.com launches a fresh design Wednesday, June 11.

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A cleaner, less cluttered, brighter, less busy, look for CSMonitor.com is coming June 11.

CSMonitor.com – this website – just got a makeover. We've been working on it for many months, and we've been testing each element as we developed it with visitors to the site. Perhaps you were one of them. 

The new design went live on Wednesday, June 11.

Our aims in this redesign were pretty simple – make it easier to read and make it easier for readers to find what they want.

It’s a cleaner, less cluttered, brighter, less busy, look. It uses more white space and a color palette dominated by the Monitor’s familiar black and yellow. We hope you find the design quicker for the eye to sort out, with the options clearer and the content easier to navigate.

But it’s about function as well as form. We're sticking to basics to make the site look better and work better in ways that we know visitors care about. Let us know how you think we did. (email editor@csps.com)

The changes are not over. We’re also working on something new. Many of our readers are truly engaged global citizens who care about the people and places in the news. We’re exploring ways to help such readers – including you – find paths to action. To be clear, we’re committed to the ideal and the discipline of nonpartisan, unbiased reporting of the news. Our readers will set their own action agendas. That's not our job. ​

But we can help point out possibilities and make connections. 

​We're ​still exploring how, and we will ​want your help. This feature will go live later this summer, so we would like to run some ideas by you now. To see what we have in mind and weigh in, go to the black navigation bar at the top of this page and click on "TAKE ACTION."

​Stay tuned for more!

​And t​hank you for being a Monitor reader.

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Dear Reader,

About 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”:

“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. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. 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.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. 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 have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

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