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  • Watch excerpts from our conversation with the director of policy studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies on some of the ethical and moral issues at stake in the US raid that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden. More →

    May 3, 2011

  • Osama bin Laden is dead. Can Americans experience a moment of national unity without waving a bloody shirt? More →

    May 3, 2011

  • The Catholic Church’s complex system for declaring someone a saint has evolved since the thirteenth century. More →

    April 29, 2011

  • Watch more about the deeply personal roles saints can play for individual Catholics. More →

    April 29, 2011

  • Watch more about the documentation that must be gathered before someone can be proclaimed a saint. More →

    April 29, 2011

  • “In that courtroom in Jerusalem 50 years ago, people heard the voices of those victims in a way that they hadn’t heard them before,” says Deborah Lipstadt, professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University and the author of “The Eichmann Trial.” More →

    April 29, 2011

  • At the central jail in Bhopal, India, the prison superintendent says a yoga program calms the jail’s atmosphere and speeds the release of inmates. More →

    April 29, 2011

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    April 29, 2011

  • “We are Jews. We don’t have to save the Palestinian heritage,” says Itzik Shweky of the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites. More →

    April 22, 2011

  • Listen to this week’s show. More →

    April 22, 2011

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