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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, Mina and Alex...
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Veterans’ PTSD and Moral Injury Centered in Documentary ‘Healing a Soldier's Heart’
During the Civil War, “Soldier’s Heart” was the name given to the symptoms we now associate with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. While the co...
Waymos – Both Popular and Polarizing – Expand to San Jose and Bay Area Highways
When Waymo robotaxis first rolled out onto San Francisco streets in 2021, people were skeptical. But less than five years later, Waymos are popular –...
Michael McFaul on the Threat of Autocracy at Home and Abroad
Michael McFaul witnessed Russia’s slide into autocracy under Vladimir Putin. Now, the former ambassador to Russia warns the U.S. is also at risk. In h...
Living Without a Mind's Eye and the Ability to Visualize
If you ask someone with aphantasia to visualize an apple, a tree, or the house they grew up in, their mind draws a blank. Literally. The inability to...
CalRx to Offer Cheap Insulin, and Other Prescription Drugs Could Be Next
Starting in January, Californians will be able to buy discounted insulin from the state. That’s thanks to CalRx, the state-run drug label created in 2...
Mamdani’s NYC Victory Mobilized People Often Forgotten in Politics. What Would That Look Like Here?
In Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech after being elected New York City’s new mayor, he thanked those often forgotten by the politics of the city, the “Y...
Click. Scroll. Surrender. Tim Wu Warns Against The Rise of Big Data in 'The Age of Extraction'
Our digital lives are increasingly dominated by a handful of powerful tech platforms. Once promising prosperity and democracy, the internet has instea...
Our Roads are Full of Potholes. Why Are They So Hard to Fix?
The pothole is the bane of any commuter’s day. In Oakland, the city has paid over $35 million in the last 10 years in pothole litigation. And accordin...
Forum From the Archives: PRXZM Live on Forum
California synth-pop duo PRXZM joins us in studio for a live musical performance. Classically trained musicians Nick Ortega and Emma Maidenberg host a...
Salman Rushdie on Writing at “The Eleventh Hour”
Salman Rushdie is one of the most consequential living writers – artistically, culturally and politically. “The 11th Hour” is his latest collection of...
Government Shutdown Stretches to Record 36 Days
We’re now in the longest shutdown in U.S. history after lawmakers on Tuesday again failed to advance a deal to extend health care subsidies and re-ope...
What RFK Jr.’s Support for Psychedelic Therapy Means for Its Future
This summer, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said he’d like to see psychedelic therapies for depression, trauma and other h...
Post-Election Analysis: California's Proposition 50
We look at how California voted on Proposition 50, which would temporarily redraw the state’s congressional districts to favor Democratic candidates....
If We Are in an AI Bubble, What Happens if it Pops?
“AI may not simply be 'a bubble,' or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble,” writes tech journalist Brian Merchant. In the first half...
Conspiracy Theory Expert Experiences Eaton Fire Disinformation Firsthand
Journalist Mike Rothschild has for the last decade studied and written about the rise and spread of conspiracy theories, hoaxes and scams. But after h...
Is The Student Loan Safety Net Unraveling?
More than 350,000 Californians are now behind on their student loan payments – the highest delinquency rate for any type of debt in over two decades,...
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales on How to Build Trust
Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia, is one of the world’s most visited websites, with 11 billion page views each month. Its founder, Jimmy Wales...
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Takes Your Questions
As mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan has touted his business credentials and his common sense approach to handling issues like homelessness and crime. In...
David Sanger on President Trump's Erratic Foreign Policy
Minutes before his high-stakes meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping on Thursday, President Trump took to social media to say the U.S. would resum...
How Día de Los Muertos Continues to Evolve
Orange marigolds, sugar skulls, skeleton face paint, and altars lined with photos and candles have become familiar elements for commemorating Day of t...
What Does Costco Mean to You?
Costco, the bulk grocery chain known for consistency, devoted employees and discounts, has 145 million members worldwide. New Yorker staff writer Moll...
‘Check, Please!,’ the Bay Area’s Longest Running Dinner Party, Turns 20
For 20 years, the Emmy- and James Beard-award winning show “Check, Please! Bay Area” has brought together local diners to kibbitz about their favorite...
Voting Rights Under Scrutiny as Redistricting Wars Escalate
Next week, California voters will decide whether to approve Proposition 50, which would temporarily redraw Congressional district maps to favor Democr...
No End in Sight for Federal Shutdown. What Does It Mean for the Bay Area?
As the federal government shutdown extends to its fifth week, its impacts have become more widespread. Over one million federal workers are either on...
Joyce Vance on Why We Can’t Give up on Our Democracy
Joyce Vance was a federal prosecutor for 25 years, resigning on the eve of Donald Trump’s first inauguration. Now, she’s a law professor, a legal anal...
In Search of Home Part 4: Strategies For Building Permanent Homes for the Unhoused
One of the main drivers of homelessness in the Bay Area is simply a lack of affordable housing for people with the very lowest incomes. In Part 4 of o...
When Everyone’s a Critic, Who Should You Trust?
Have you watched a movie review on YouTube or an album takedown on TikTok? Cultural criticism is available for free everywhere which might explain why...
Trump Ramps Up Military Strikes and Troops Near Venezuela, Amid Questions About Goals and Legality // California Condors Alight in the East Bay After 100 Year Absence
The Pentagon announced Friday that the military is sending an aircraft carrier to South America. It’s the latest in the escalating show of force again...
What’s Your Favorite Children’s Book?
There’s the picture book you wanted your parent or caregiver to read to you over and over. There’s the one with musical rhymes you love performing for...
You Can Buy a Burrito on Installment. But Should You?
While indulging in online retail therapy, you’ve probably seen an option at checkout to buy now, pay later. Companies like Afterpay, Affirm, and Klarn...
David Brooks on 'Why America Needs a Mass Movement – Now'
The Trump administration’s constant flouting of court orders, its conversion of ICE into a massive paramilitary organization, its extortion of univers...
Fired Federal Immigration Judges Speak Out
The Trump administration has fired dozens of immigration judges in California seemingly without cause and despite growing backlogs of cases. Judges wh...
California Takes On Potent Synthetic Drug 7-OH
Reports are rising of addiction, overdose and death tied to 7-OH, a potent new synthetic drug. The painkiller is a lab-made offshoot of the herbal dru...
How Intelligence – Both Human and Artificial – Happens
How exactly does the mind work? How do we learn and make decisions? And how does that compare to the way AI thinks? In their new book, “The Emergent M...
Rabbi Calls for Boundless Compassion Amid Divides
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl leads the largest synagogue in New York City. But she says she’s never been so afraid to talk about Israel. That’s because she t...
What Steep Health Insurance Price Hikes Could Mean for Nearly 2 Million Californians on Covered CA
The cost of healthcare insurance is at the core of the government shutdown. Democrats and Republicans are at a stalemate over the extension of subsidi...
Federal Workers Face New Round of Layoffs as Labor Rights Under Attack
Unions for federal employees say the White House is planning thousands more layoffs, even though a federal judge in San Francisco has blocked it. This...
Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got So Terrible, So Fast, and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow coined a word to describe how what we once loved about the internet, and relied on, has become exploitative, corrosive, and anti-user. A...
SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and the Del Sol Quartet’s New Performance Celebrates Asian American Diaspora
Why do we leave our homelands? That is the central question which animates the newest work of San Francisco poet laureate Genny Lim and the Bay Area-b...
Get Ready to be ‘Spooked’ this Halloween
Glynn Washington, host of KQED and Snap Judgment’s “Spooked,” joins us to talk about the podcast’s new season called The Crossroads. It takes stories...