Common Ground with Yuval David

Are your opinions actually your own? In an era where the same slogans appear across six continents within hours, where hashtags replace history and placards replace policy, the most important question you can ask is no longer what is true. It's who decided what you'd think about today. In this episode of Common Ground, Yuval David delivers a forensic examination of how narratives are engineered, h...

Are we living in an era where telling the truth has become the ultimate act of defiance? When honesty carries a professional price tag, when silence is the safer career move, and when the people who should be speaking up have chosen to look away instead? Right now, we are watching a cultural moment where the cost of candor has never been higher, and the consequences of avoiding it have never been...

What happens when truth stops being something we search for and starts becoming something we vote on? When millions of views replace evidence, and influence begins to outweigh reality? Right now, we are living through a shift where popularity is being mistaken for truth, and the consequences are not theoretical. They are cultural, political, and deeply personal. In this powerful and unfiltered con...

What is really happening between Iran, Israel, and the United States right now? Is Iran winning, or is the world watching a regime attempt to rebrand military defeat as victory? In this explosive and fact-driven breakdown, we examine the joint U.S.–Israel military campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, missile systems, air defenses, and terror proxy networks including Hezbollah, Hamas,...

Millions of people participated in “No Kings” protests across the United States and globally. The scale is undeniable, but the clarity is not. We are back, and in this episode, Yuval David examines the growing gap between performative activism and meaningful advocacy. As global conflicts escalate, from Iran’s long-standing war posture to instability across the Middle East, and antisemitic attacks...

Welcome to Common Ground, a podcast that refuses to play by the rules of manufactured outrage and tribal politics. In this powerful premiere episode, host Yuval David makes a bold confession: we're not as divided as social media, cable news, and political activists want us to believe. We're divided on purpose, and it's time to call out the forces profiting from confusion, fear, and rage. In this p...

In an era of global crisis, polarization, and disillusionment, Common Ground confronts the forces that brought us here - and challenges us to imagine what comes next. Hosted by Emmy Award–winning journalist, actor, and filmmaker Yuval David, this bold new podcast explores culture, politics, identity, and faith with clarity, courage, and intellectual honesty. A proud Jew and political centrist, Yuv...