This American Life

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Image from the Puppy Channel network, from the story in Act One.

People starting over—sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.

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Since October 7, Israel has intensified restrictions on West Bank Palestinians while global attention focused on Gaza. We travel to the West Bank to see these changes in person.

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Lists!!!

How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.

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Letters! Actual Letters!

When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.

“When I’m trying to explain our program to someone who doesn’t know it, I stammer a bunch of words like ‘entertaining,’ ‘funny,’ ‘surprising plot twists,’ ‘true stories but not boring I swear’ … and then I just give them this list.” — Ira Glass

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