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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, Mina and Alex...
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Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: Poet Ada Limón’s New Collection 'Startlement' Centers Wonder and Connection
Sonoma native and former U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón’s collection of new and selected poetry contemplates her relationship to nature, the role of art...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
The Delightful Experience of Collective Effervescence
Singing along with the crowd at a concert. Cheering together at a sports game. Laughing with the audience at a funny moment in a movie. Even getting w...
Forum From the Archives: ‘Second Life’ Looks at Parenting in an App-Obsessed World
When New York Times critic Amanda Hess was told her baby had a rare genetic condition, her first instinct was to “Google [her] way out of it.” But ins...
The Best Books of 2025
We take a look back at our favorite books of 2025. This year's best seller lists and critic choices were scattered with no clear big hits but there we...
‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu on How His Career Defies Gravity
Bay Area native and acclaimed director of “Crazy Rich Asians” and “In the Heights,” Jon M. Chu now brings one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals to t...
A Look Back at the Biggest News Stories of 2025
ICE raids. Tariffs. National Guard deployment. Ukraine. Venezuela. The longest federal shutdown in history. There was no shortage of major news headli...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: 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...
Forum From the Archives: Is Customer Service a Bad Model?
To be a modern consumer is to experience poor customer service at some point in your life. The kind of service that has you in a fever dream of pressi...
Trump Expanding Third-Country Removals of Asylum Seekers in California
The current Trump administration has deported roughly 8,000 people to places most have never even visited, in a process known as third-country removal...
Your One Beautiful Thing from 2025
After a year of political, economic and societal turmoil, we sit down with KQED’s Arts team to talk about their annual series, One Beautiful Thing. Th...
California’s AI Data Centers Taking Growing Environmental Toll
Data centers are the server farms that power the internet. California has the third-most data centers of any state: over 320 sites, with more construc...
Misogyny Has Gone Mainstream. What Can be Done?
The president calling female reporters “piggy”, “stupid” and “ugly.” Claims that liberal feminism has ruined the workplace. The manosphere. Despite th...
How Loyalty Programs Manipulate Consumers and Steal Personal Data
From hotels to fast food restaurants, more companies are luring consumers to sign up for loyalty programs in exchange for points, discounts and other...
Kaiser Therapists Battle to Fend Off Artificial Intelligence
In recent contract negotiations, Kaiser Permanente therapists asked for language to specify that artificial intelligence would not “replace” humans in...
Why Is Hollywood Freaking Out About a Warner Bros Discovery Sale?
From Hollywood to Rockefeller Plaza, news of a potential sale of Warner Bros Discovery has sent shockwaves through the film industry. And the current...
After a Rocky Year, What’s the Future of Cryptocurrency?
2025 was supposed to be crypto’s year. President Trump began his term by announcing a strategic Bitcoin reserve and promised to back the market for th...
New Research Tackles Heightened Risk of Suicide for Autistic Kids
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the U.S. for kids aged 10 to 18. And autistic youth are more likely to think about and die from suicide, and at...
How Freaked Out Should We Be About All These Small Earthquakes?
There have been more than 150 small earthquakes in San Ramon in the past month. In one rattling day alone there were at least 19 of magnitude 2.0 or h...
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...