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Even if the war ends, there will need to be a moment of soul-searching about the collective society’s responsibility for the years of mass killing and displacement. Palestinians desperately need this war to end. But so do Israelis, Mairav Zonszein writes.

“If there’s one person who can wrangle an alpha male, it’s Jane Goodall,” Kara Swisher said of the primatologist, who has died at 91. In 2020, the two talked on Swisher’s Times Opinion podcast “Sway” about Goodall’s work, celebrity status and influence on world leaders.

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users.

“The implications” of the Eric Adams case, wrote @NoahShachtman earlier this month, extend far beyond New York’s borders. “They ripple through law enforcement offices and legislatures and courthouses across the nation, all the way up to the highest office in the land.”

Vaccines don’t cause autism, but this visual analysis shows how a father-son duo manipulated data to say the shots can, wrote Jess Steier in August.

In @nytopinion “Even if you regard widespread surveillance as a reasonable precaution against crime, there is no way to be sure how this data could be used in the future, and no system in place to protect or regulate it,” Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez writes.

“The idea that an entity as powerful as the Fed could become an arm of the current president — or frankly, any president — is terrifying,” writes @Aarondklein.

“Even if you regard widespread surveillance as a reasonable precaution against crime, there is no way to be sure how this data could be used in the future, and no system in place to protect or regulate it,” Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez writes. https://t.co/TK5fSgnWvn

Instead of focusing on talks between Ukraine and Russia or the Israelis and Palestinians, Trump should “make peace at home. Make peace between Americans,” our columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is “a tragedy,” the editorial board writes. “His killing is also part of a horrifying wave of political violence in America.”

“As ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’ makes clear, the terrible status quo is exactly what makes easy slogans about a two-state solution dangerous,” writes @michelleinbklyn.

“The name change from the Defense Department to the War Department is completely inappropriate,” Roy Weber writes in a letter to The Times.

“Tell me this is not what authoritarianism looks and sounds like,” our columnist @ezraklein writes. “And so the question is: What are Democrats going to do about it? What can they do about it?”

“Rewriting laws to reflect the full cost of our throwaway culture could incentivize companies that poured millions of dollars into these products to invest in building a less destructive system,” Saabira Chaudhuri writes.

What is true love? And what does it require of us? @nytdavidbrooks explains:

“Collaborative riffs are surprisingly central to our mental well-being: They’re the glue that binds us together, adds color to our lives and gives us a sense of purpose,” the behavioral scientists Maya Rossignac-Milon and Erica Boothby write. https://t.co/bsYx9AQVPX

“Until a couple of years ago Peter Ruzavin was a wunderkind of Russian opposition journalism,” M. Gessen writes. “Now, at 34, he is a corporal in uniform — a Ukrainian uniform. He serves with a drone unit in Kharkiv. ‘I feel lucky,’ he told me.” https://t.co/fQ2haUG4ef

“A reasonable person can conclude that the right is enacting a coherent, strategic plan to make midterm elections appear fair, even if they’re designed so that Republicans will almost surely win,” writes @tressiemcphd.

“He said this week he’s worried about getting into heaven,” writes @maureendowd. “He should be.”

“To propose to cede the land to Russia is to propose either to subjecting those residents to Russian occupation — which in other cities has involved summary executions, detentions and torture — or displacing them forcibly,” writes @mashagessen.