KQED's Forum
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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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How the Iran War Has Isolated the US From Its Allies
President Trump backed down from his social media threat that “a whole civilization will die” after Pakistan helped broker a ceasefire deal with Iran....
Trump Administration Wants to Replace Cuba’s Government, But What Would Come Next?
High level talks between Cuba and the U.S. are ongoing as the Trump administration’s four-month oil blockade of the island nation continues. Trump has...
Inside California’s Crowded Governor’s Race
California’s jam-packed governor’s primary may lead to a historic political shakeup this fall. Polls show the two leading Republicans, Riverside count...
Why Aren’t Doctors Better At Diagnosing Illnesses?
A 2015 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that “most people will experience at least one diagnostic error...
How L.A. Cleaned Its Air—and What It Means for Climate Policy Today
Los Angeles was once defined by smog that for decades choked the city with toxic haze. It obscured surrounding mountains and exposed people – especial...
California Farmers Struggle to Weather the Agriculture Crisis
It is a tough time to be a farmer. President Trump’s tariffs last year raised many of the costs of farming and shrunk food exports. Threats of immigra...
Fewer Friends, More Pressure: The State of ‘American Men’
Journalist Jordan Ritter Conn has spent years studying some of the psychological challenges facing men in the United States. These include feelings of...
Why We’re Headed Back to the Moon For the First Time in Half a Century
“We go for all humanity,” remarked Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, moments before the rocket taking him and his crew to the moon launched on Wednes...
Planning to Vote By Mail This November? What Californians Need to Know
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that aims to place federal restrictions on voting by mail ahead of this fall’s midterm elections....
San Francisco Has Tried to Make its Streets Safer for Pedestrians – Has it Worked?
After a decade of Vision Zero, the effort that aimed to end traffic fatalities and severe injuries, San Francisco saw a drastic decrease in 2025 traff...
In New Book, Sen. Cory Booker Urges Americans to Take a 'Stand'
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker said this weekend that Democrats have “failed to meet this moment” and that his party needed “generational renewal.” Th...
A Close Look at the Earth's Tiniest, and its Most Vast, Wonders
National Geographic Explorer and documentary filmmaker Ariel Waldman challenges our sense of scale in her new PBS series “Life Unearthed” which explor...
How Can Climate Entertainment Help Us Talk About Climate Change?
Is emphasizing the cold, hard facts of climate change – the acres lost to sea level rise, the percentage increase of global warming – actually the rig...
Campus Closures and Teacher Layoffs: Bay Area Public Schools In Crisis
Education funding for California’s public schools is one of the largest parts of the state budget. Yet districts across the state, and here in the Bay...
Addictive Social Media is Harmful to Youth, Jury Says
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction. Lawyers suing the tech giants argued that feature...
U.S. Readying Ground Troops For Iran War
As the war in Iran continues into its fifth week, the Pentagon is contemplating sending an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East. This es...
Dialing Up 150 Years on the Phone
150 years ago this month, Alexander Graham Bell placed history’s first telephone call. And even though phones have changed — from a black metal cone m...
How the Labradoodle Unleashed An Industry
The poodle might be the most crossbred dog in modern times. There’s the labradoodle, goldendoodle and bernedoodle. And also cavapoos, cockapoos and ma...
David George Haskell on 'How Flowers Made Our World'
“When we give a scented flower, bring blooms to a grave, or dab perfume onto our skin, we are not enacting arbitrary, merely symbolic rituals. Rather,...
Car and Gas Prices Are Shooting Up. How Will Drivers Respond?
Cars have become dramatically more expensive in the United States in recent years, with the average price hitting a record of $50,000 in 2025. But now...
Is Another ‘Great Recession’ on the Horizon?
With the war in Iran creating major economic uncertainty, some economists are forecasting that a recession could arrive this year. The economy had alr...
Social Media and AI Disrupt, Distort Iran War Coverage
In 2022, the conflict in Ukraine unleashed the first TikTok war. Now, four years later with the war in Iran, AI and a souped up social media are docum...
What Would Escalation in Iran Look Like?
The United States continues to ramp up its military presence near Iran, newly deploying three San Diego-based warships to the Middle East along with s...
San Francisco Has A Lot of Commissions. Should We Keep Them?
San Francisco’s government has long been shaped by a tension between efficiency and public oversight. After voters approved Prop E in 2024, a new Comm...
Tahoe Resorts Shut Down a Month Early
An intense mid-March heat wave was the death knell for operations at some California ski parks. Several Tahoe resorts waved the white flag and are clo...
Trump Limits Pathways to Legal Status for Immigrants
President Trump has said he supports “legal” immigration, but his administration has dismantled or limited pathways for immigrants to attain legal sta...
California Confronts the Cesar Chavez Allegations
California will rename Cesar Chavez Day after the New York Times reported Wednesday that the labor icon had sexually abused, assaulted and raped girls...
How Food Delivery Apps Are Changing the Way We Eat In – And Out
When mealtimes come, more and more people instinctively reach for their phones and open up an app. Many customers now want restaurant food, often deli...
What Do Rising Gas Prices Mean for Californians?
Gas prices are spiking worldwide as the war in Iran and the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz cause major disruptions to the transport of about a f...
Fighting for Internet Privacy in an Increasingly Surveilled World
“Privacy is a check on power,” writes Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in her book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty...
Do Airlines Care About Basic Economy Passengers?
With the spring travel season upon us, the cheapest airline tickets are becoming even more restrictive, as the nation’s top airlines chip away at what...
Celebrating the ‘Unsung Heroines’ of the Bay Area
Women’s history often goes unwritten and unspoken. But KQED’s Rae Alexandra sets the record straight in her new book, ‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who C...
Ibram X. Kendi Chronicles Impact and Spread of ‘Great Replacement Theory'
Historian Ibram X. Kendi says that in order to understand the rise of authoritarianism, we need to understand great replacement theory. It’s the racis...
What's Behind the Great Crime Decline?
Despite a spike during the pandemic, violent crime in the Bay Area and the United States has been on the decline for most of the last 30 years. Now, d...
Should Californians Have to Show ID to Vote?
Reform California, the conservative group behind a proposal to require voters to show identification at the polls, say they’ve gathered enough signatu...
We’re in for a Major Heat Wave
It’s about to get very hot. A prolonged heat wave is hitting Western states with Bay Area temperatures expected to get 20 to 30 degrees above average,...
The First-Ever Casting Director Oscar Goes To...And ‘Pope of Trash' John Waters on the Power of Weird Queer Cinema
The 98th Academy Awards will honor casting directors for the first time in the ceremony’s history. It’s the first new category in 25 years. We’ll spea...
Did Your Great Resignation Career Change Work Out?
There was a period of time about five years ago that came to be known as the Great Resignation, when workers quit their jobs en masse. The pandemic f...
The World Cup Heads to California
The World Cup may be three months away, but it’s already making news. Iran, which was scheduled to play its first match in Los Angeles, announced Wedn...
Local Businesses Were Hit Hard by Tariffs. Now They Want A Refund.
When the Supreme Court invalidated a tranche of Trump’s tariffs last month, businesses around the country and world began clamoring for a refund. To d...