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KQED's Forum
Forum tells remarkable and true stories about who we are and where we live. In the first hour, Alexis Madrigal convenes the diverse voices of the Bay Area, before turning to Mina Kim for the second hour to chronicle and center Californians’ experience. In an increasingly divided world, Min...
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Forum From The Archives: M. Gessen Reckons with Familial Crime and Punishment
“The Idiot,” a podcast from Serial and New York Times opinion columnist M. Gessen, shares the story of Gessen’s own cousin, Allen, who went to prison...
Concerts, Art, and Festivals Not to Miss in the Bay This Fall
Fall is one of the most exciting times of year for arts and culture. To celebrate the start of the season, we’ve invited KQED’s Arts & Culture team to...
Can Anyone Solve America’s $40 Trillion Debt Problem?
At this week’s G20 summit in Asheville, N.C., global finance leaders met amid a bond sell-off that threatened to raise the cost of long-term borrowing...
In Daniel Mason’s Comic Novel ‘Country People,’ California Collides with New England
Acclaimed novelist Daniel Mason’s latest book, “Country People,” centers on Miles, a stalled PhD student of Russian folklore, who is married to a bril...
Rozina Ali Traces Islamophobia’s Long Shadow
After the Sept. 11 attacks, assaults against Muslims in the U.S. surged. At the same time the U.S. government launched a sweeping War on Terror that b...
Can the Trump Administration Allow Private Development in Yosemite?
The Trump Administration is reportedly considering letting a private Nevada developer take control of a parcel of land in Yosemite National Park. Cons...
Who Should Pay When Utilities Companies Start a Fire?
Wildfire season is underway in California, but the state’s wildfire fund is running low after billions went to victims of last year’s massive Altadena...
What Does Bay Area Democratic Socialism Look Like?
Democratic socialists are on a winning streak. Candidates back by the Democratic Socialists of America have toppled establishment Democrats in primari...
What’s Driving the Anti-Sunscreen Movement?
Are you still wearing sunscreen? There’s been a recent wave of viral TikToks declaring that sunscreen is “toxic,” and they’ve helped ignite an anti-su...
The Long Reach of the “Marinaissance”
Growing up in San Rafael in the 80’s and 90’s, writer David Perlis sensed that he had just missed something incredible. “I wanted to know what happene...
The Iran War at Six Months: Has the U.S. Already Lost?
Six months into the war with Iran, the quick victory President Trump predicted remains elusive. As Iran’s hardline regime remains defiant, Atlantic wr...
What Are the Objects That Define the Bay Area?
A few years ago, a black Patagonia vest or a Timbuktu messenger bag were a telltale sign that a
person might be from the Bay Area. Now, y...
How Will Meta’s Landmark Settlement Change Social Media?
Meta will pay up to $17 billion to settle a lawsuit alleging Facebook and Instagram violated child privacy and consumer protection laws. The case, bro...
Trump Trade War with Canada Pits the U.S. Against a Once-Staunch Ally
Canada was once one of America’s staunchest allies, but a trade war between the two nations has put the friendship under strain. Following a collapse...
Remembering Dolly Parton
A uniquely and universally beloved musician and philanthropist, Dolly Parton died Tuesday at 80. One of country music’s most celebrated performers, he...
Historian Jill Lepore Warns Against Letting Robots Take Over Our Democracy
In her new book, “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore issues a warning that in our desire...
The Hidden Psychology Behind Procrastination
We’ve all done it: put off that email, project… or even something we genuinely want to do. But why do we procrastinate? Researcher Itamar Schatz says...
KQED Investigates Botched Clipper 2.0 Launch
Last December, Bay Area transit officials launched Clipper 2.0 – a revamp of the payment system used across the region’s 22 public transportation syst...
Should You Rethink How Much You’re Drinking?
In their groundbreaking 1976 book, “How to Control Your Drinking,” William R. Miller and Ricardo F. Muñoz offered a guide for moderate alcohol use. Ba...
Why California is Rethinking its Nuclear Exit
California’s only remaining active nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon on California’s Central Coast, was supposed to shutter in 2025, but a series of...
Are Health Trackers Making Us Obsessed?
Fitness trackers have exploded in popularity, and wearable users swear by the data. But psychologists say these devices can lead to anxiety and obsess...
Nina LaCour Weaves an Intimate Story of the Great Migration to California in Novel 'Meet Me in the Garden'
San Francisco’s Nina LaCour is a bestselling YA author who has turned to adult novels in the past few years. Her new book, “Meet Me In the Garden” is...
The USS Abraham Lincoln and the Toll of the Iran War
The San Diego-based naval carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed to the Middle East to support Iran war operations for nearly nine months. The...
ICE Airport Arrests Attract Legal Outcry
Federal immigration agents arrested more than 50 thousand people in July, a record number for the Trump administration which has demanded 2,000 ICE ar...
Should San Francisco Create a Public Bank?
San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to set up a public bank, a city-owned financial institution that could manage city funds and make...
NPR’s Allison Aubrey on Reinventing Life After 50
After years of chasing news stories and crashing on deadlines, NPR health and science correspondent Allison Aubrey began to reconsider what she wanted...
Is California Ready for `The Big One?’
The San Andreas Fault is under more pressure now than it has been in the last 1,000 years. That’s according to new research from seismologists who stu...
Rep. Jared Huffman Warns about the Power of Christian Nationalism in Congress
Jared Huffman is the only member of Congress to publicly state that he does not believe in any god. In politics, disavowing religion can be a liabilit...
Artificial Stone Containing Silica is Killing Workers. Will California Ban It?
More than 600 California stoneworkers have contracted silicosis, a deadly and incurable lung disease resulting from exposure to the silica in engineer...
Dorothy Lazard on the Ambitious Mission of Libraries and the People that Make them Function
“The public library is our country’s last truly democratic institution,” writes celebrated librarian and public historian Dorothy Lazard. In her 40-ye...
Why We Can’t Stop Reading Thrillers
What’s your favorite thriller novel? That’s a question the New York Times posed this summer to renowned authors and critics, and now the Times is out...
Where Do You Go to Find Your People?
Social isolation has been declared a public health crisis by the U.S. Surgeon General. And you’ve likely heard about the male loneliness epidemic or h...
Why The Onion Took Over Infowars
In the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, rightwing commentator Alex Jones peddled bogus conspiracy theori...
Federal Sex Education Cuts and Abstinence-Only Policies Spark Debate Over Teen Health and Fertility
The Trump administration has pulled millions of dollars of funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs nationwide as part of its push for abstinenc...
What’s Going on at the Department of Homeland Security?
The Trump administration’s push to execute the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history is unfolding in “a fog of fake numbers and statistical sub...
How Prepared Are We for Cyberattacks on Cities, Water Systems?
A cyberattack on Suisun City over the weekend forced the city to shut down its network infrastructure and declare a state of emergency. City hall serv...
The California Cities Beefing With Fast Food Drive-Thrus
The burgers are so good that they’re causing traffic jams. At least that’s what’s happening in Culver City, where the line of cars at spots like In-N-...
The Alarming Rise of Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults
Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer-related death for Americans under 50. And, for people in their 20s and 30s, the rate of incidence...
Annie Jacobsen’s Doomsday Biological War Scenario
What would happen if a top-secret Russian lab released a deadly, weaponized, pathogen? That’s the nightmare possibility that author Annie Jacobsen pre...
Chang-rae Lee's Novel, 'A Tender Age' Is A Personal Story
“I’ve not gone back to any of the old places,” reflects the protagonist in the new novel “A Tender Age.” But that is just what the author Chang-rae Le...