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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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Remembering Those We Lost in 2025
Diane Keaton. Jane Goodall. Belva Davis. Ozzy Osbourne. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. David Lynch. We lost cultural luminaries, larger-than-life personalit...
Best Bay Area Music of 2025 With Special Live in Studio Performances
We’ll look back at KQED’s Best Bay Area Albums of 2025 with our music writers. This year’s list of favorites includes local musicians putting out orig...
What’s Behind President Trump’s Aesthetic?
The White House says it’s submitting plans this month for its 90,000 square-foot gold-studded ballroom which will be bigger than the White House while...
Fatal UCSF Stabbing Heightens Concerns About Health Worker Safety
The killing of Alberto Rangel, a 51-year-old social worker at San Francisco General Hospital, has left colleagues grieving and questioning whether his...
Calls Escalate for Release of Caribbean Boat Strike Video
Lawmakers are demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth release video of the September strike that killed two survivors of a U.S. attack on their...
How NIH Funding Cuts Are Slowing the Search for Cures
The National Institutes of Health have historically funded scientists to find cures for diseases and protect public health. NIH funding has led to the...
Investigation: Lax State Oversight Endangers California’s Child Farmworkers
Children as young as 12 can legally work on California’s farms, picking strawberries and pruning blueberry bushes along with a host of other physicall...
Mobile Homes Provide Affordable Housing, But Their Future Is at Risk
In California, mobile homes make up to 6% of the state’s housing stock. With as many as 300,000 homes in 5,000 mobile home parks in the state, they pl...
Would You Erase a Painful Memory, if You Could?
In groundbreaking experiments with mice, Boston University neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has succeeded in turning memories on and off, even implanting...
How Private Soundtracks Are Changing Public Life: The New Normal of Constant Headphone Use
On the bus and in the grocery store line, more and more people are keeping their AirPods in. While we work, while we walk, while we shower, even while...
Patricia Lockwood on How Illness Can Give You ‘Another You’
When writer Patricia Lockwood fell ill with Covid in March 2020, she says she felt insane for months, experiencing “Brian fog” (not brain fog) and wh...
How Are You Managing Giftflation this Holiday Shopping Season?
Giftflation is here. Prices for go-to gifts such as boxes of chocolates or the latest iPhone will be higher this year than last thanks to rising tarif...
Congress Scrambles to Address Healthcare Funding Before Year End
With just weeks before enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire for 22 million Americans, Congress faces mounting pressure to act on healthcare f...
What Trump’s ‘Pause’ on Asylum Decisions Means for the Bay Area’s Afghan Community and Beyond
The Trump administration has paused all asylum immigration decisions, affecting more than a million people, following a shooting of two National Guard...
Simon Winchester Charts History and Future of the Wind in 'The Breath of the Gods'
Journalist and author Simon Winchester says that wind is “a universal….It lifts seeds and supports birds and insects. It warms and it chills. It build...
Bay Area Startups Want to Make Genetically Engineered Babies. What Could Go Wrong?
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby. But according to the Wall Stree...
Fred Armisen on Recording the Sounds of the Everyday
Fred Armisen, the comedian, actor and musician known for “Portlandia,” “Documentary Now!” and “SNL,” has a new album out called “100 Sound Effects.” T...
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power and the Downfall of a Bay Area Wellness Cult
In 2011, Nicole Daedone took to the stage at a San Francisco TedTalk to discuss her biggest business venture: the female orgasm. The founder of OneTas...
‘Nerd Reich’ Author Gil Duran on the Tech Authoritarian Movement
Journalist Gil Duran’s newsletter “The Nerd Reich” documents the latest developments in anti-democracy extremism within Silicon Valley. These extreme...
Most People Dread Jury Duty, But Some Never Get the Chance to Serve
If you’ve watched any legal drama on TV, you know that criminal defendants are entitled to a jury of peers. But does our court system fulfill that pro...
Forum from the Archives: 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...
Forum from the Archives: Samin Nosrat on Nourishing Food, Community and All the ‘Good Things’
Even after the tremendous success of her cookbook, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” and the Netflix series it inspired, Samin Nosrat found that she was lonely...
Forum from the Archives: Life Goes On While Systems Fray — How Do We Make Sense of the Dissonance?
Crises unfold around us daily: gun violence, devastating foreign wars and U.S. democratic norms shattering. And still, we cook dinner and go to work....
Forum from the Archives: Julian Brave NoiseCat Weaves Memoir with Indigenous Myth and History
Julian Brave NoiseCat’s paternal family traces their origins to the Coyote, a trickster from native mythology who helped create the world. The story o...
Forum from the Archives: Can We Really Live On Mars?
Mars is inhospitable to human life with its cosmic radiation, atmosphere of carbon dioxide and nights as cold as 200 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Bu...
ACLU’s National Legal Director Cecillia Wang on Taking Trump to Court
The ACLU is not new to the work of challenging presidents. During the first Trump administration, the ACLU successfully challenged Trump’s Muslim ban,...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Trans Kids Talk With Those Who Love and Support Them in ‘Love You for You’ Series
Transgender and nonbinary kids have been in the news a lot lately, but usually they’re not telling their own stories. The California Report Magazine h...
New Levi’s Exhibit Proves Iconic Jeans Never Fade
Beyond just a wardrobe staple, jeans are often key parts of signature looks and core memories. Levi Strauss, the San Francisco company that brought je...
Your Spiciest Thanksgiving Hot Takes with NYT Cooking
New York Times Cooking columnist Eric Kim says he’s perfected the Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole (hint: big marshmallows, but halved). Recipe dev...
The Art of Audiobooks with Julia Whelan
What’s your favorite audiobook? Chances are, it’s one with a great narrator. Audiobook performers can make, or break, the experience for listeners. Bu...
The 'Great Flattening': White Collar Workers Hit by Historic Wave of Layoffs
In the last year, tens of thousands of white collar workers have been laid off from companies ranging from Salesforce to GM to Target. Last month, Ama...
Remembering Legendary Football Coach John Beam, As Oakland Reels From Two Campus Shootings
Two campus shootings last week rocked Oakland. On Wednesday, a 15-year-old Skyline High School student was injured in a shooting by two minors on camp...
How is Climate Advocacy Weathering Trump?
The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, is underway in Brazil. While California Governor Gavin Newsom made an appearance, the U.S...
Why ICE Agents Mask Themselves
As the Trump administration’s deportation campaign has ramped up, so too have the number of federal officers and agents wearing masks. That’s accordin...
Former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Urges Us to 'Fear Less'
For many, poetry is a balm. But for others, poetry feels inaccessible and hard to understand. In her latest book, “Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times...
What Has a Dog Shown You?
The dog, writes poet Billy Collins, moves through the world unencumbered, with “nothing but her brown coat and her modest blue collar.” In a new colle...
Remembering Disability Activist Alice Wong
Pioneering disability justice activist Alice Wong died in San Francisco on Friday at the age of 51. We listen back to our January interview with Ali...
When Is It OK to Ghost?
“Ghosting” has become an almost inevitable part of modern life – not just on dating sites, but among friends, family and even professional colleagues....
Nite Yun's 'My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook' Celebrates Her Culinary Heritage
Growing up in Stockton’s Khmer refugee community, Nite Yun knew some about her family’s history and heritage, but it was only after she visited Cambod...