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What We Think About Us & Them

Four in five Israelis tell pollsters that the suffering of Gaza civilians shouldn’t change how Israel fights the war? Really?

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What They Think About Them

72% of Palestinians on the West Bank think Hamas’s decision to do what it did on October 7 “was the correct one”? Really?

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What They Think About Us

More than half college-age American kids think Israel should be “ended and given to Hamas”? Really?

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Kids Out

Every day for a week hostages got out of Gaza until, all of a sudden, they didn’t

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That Thing About the Muses

So many paintings, songs, poems, sculptures, site exhibits, and plays have been made since October 7. But why?

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Women & the War

Gender’s gotten weird (even weirder than usual) in this war. Miriam Schler, Executive Director of the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center, joins us to make sense of it

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Trolley Problems

If the two goals of the war – crushing Hamas and returning the captives home – turn out to be at odds, what should Israel do?

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Bearing Arms

More people have applied for a gun license in the past month than in the prior decade. Should we be worried?

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