Ex-NIH director and truck driver explore how to bridge divisions deepened by the pandemic

Americans were sharply divided over the public health response to COVID-19, including masking, remote learning, business closures and vaccines. Five years after the start of the pandemic, Judy Woodruff sat down with two people on opposing sides of that divide trying to figure out how to move forward. It's part of her series, America at a Crossroads.

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Americans were sharply divided over the public health response to COVID-19, things like masking, remote learning, business closures, and later vaccines.

Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Trump is waging class warfare on Wall Street for the sake of the American working class"

For the last decade, the media, Democrats, and Never Trump Republicans have denounced Trump as a tool of the rich and of Wall Street. Trump’s populism was fake, they said. He doesn’t really care about the working class. He just cares about himself and his Wall Street buddies.

Trump’s tariffs and Wall Street’s reaction to them prove that all of that was a lie, says Batya Ungar-Sargon, the author of two important recent books, one about the media (Bad News) and the other about the working class (Second Class).

Hostage's grandson: 'That's not the way anyone should die'

The grandson of Israeli hostage Oded Lifschitz, 84, whose body was returned from Gaza to Israel this week, has spoken to the BBC.

Daniel Lifschitz criticised Hamas for kidnapping a great-grandfather, saying Oded died in "poor conditions, without food, without medication".

He described his grandfather as "a warrior of peace" and said "a generation of education" free from Hamas was needed in order to bring progress towards peace in the region...