In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho

mountain top where they lived.

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been holed up in a cabin near Naples

for more than a year.

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist. Randy and his wife Vicky

thought the government was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead,

and the government had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

What should we do about white supremacists?

Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring myth for the far right?

And whose fault was it anyway?

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Mohamed Mahawish loves to eat. His go-to move is to put cardamom on just about everything. He's kind of a foodie.

But we called him up because he's also got advice on how to starve.

Mohamed learned this skill the hard way. About a year ago, he was living in Gaza City when the food started to run out.

He was with his family, his young son, his wife.

Sometimes he says they would just pretend to eat.

They would chew on some cloth or drink some warm water with leftover tea leaves in it.

It didn't fill us up, but it was kind of like the warmth it had kind of tricked our

stomachs into thinking something was coming.

Another thing I remember, we would tell ourselves in each other stories about food.

I remember, like, once sitting with my father, and instead of dinner, we talked about what we would cook if we could.

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