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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Do You Love Nintendo?
Super Mario Bros. The Legend of Zelda. Pokémon. Animal Crossing. Video games from the Japanese company Nintendo have been surprising, delighting and c...
Documentary Filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir on Seeking Justice Through ‘The Perfect Neighbor’
Geeta Gandbhir’s documentary, “The Perfect Neighbor” was a massive hit on Netflix last year. Told mostly through police body camera and security foota...
Concerns Build for Election Interference in Midterms
California senator Adam Schiff says that President Donald Trump will try to “subvert” the midterm elections this year by attempting to overturn any re...
BART Proposes Station Closures and Fare Hikes to Deal with Massive Budget Shortfall
Facing a $376 million deficit, BART announced that without more funding, it will consider drastic cuts including closing one-third of its 50 stations...
Inside Animal Testing Labs With Larry Carbone
Breakthrough treatments for high blood pressure, HIV infection and obesity: they’re all available in part because of studies done on animals. And thou...
How ‘Tiny Gardens Everywhere’ Can Sustain Us
In her new book, “Tiny Gardens Everywhere,” MIT environmental historian Kate Brown uses the global history of gardening to help us imagine cities that...
Conservative Media's Expanding Influence
From The Washington Post to CBS, mass layoffs, shifts in editorial direction and even direct interference in coverage are raising questions about whet...
It's Elon Musk's World. We're Just Living In It.
Elon Musk’s merger of SpaceX with his AI start-up xAI has created what the New York Times calls “the most valuable private company on earth,” allowing...
Looking for a Valentine? You May Need Better Dating Skills
Despite an explosion of dating apps and social media that seemingly make it easier to meet people, rates of marriage and couples living together have...
Kaiser Permanente Strike Enters Third Week as Talks Stall
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers are on strike across California over stalled contract talks, s...
How the Reopening of SF’s Castro Theater Could Revitalize Nightlife
When the marquee lights of the Castro Theater dimmed two years ago, many worried that this grande dame of cinema would never be the same. Now after a...
Ray Madoff on 'How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy'
“After the US Constitution, the tax code is the single most important document affecting Americans’ lives. But because it is a deeply opaque, seven-th...
Mother Jones Marks 50 Years of Holding the Powerful Accountable
In 1977, a fledgling magazine startup in San Francisco published a searing story about the Ford Pinto, a car model that executives put on the market k...
A Hate Murder in Orange County Exposes Growth of Neo-Nazism
Since Donald Trump broke into the political scene in 2015, the United States has seen a surge in white supremacist hate groups. Investigative journali...
Why Are Oakland Rents Suddenly So Much Cheaper Than SF’s?
Amid a ballooning rental housing market across the Bay Area, Oakland rents are mostly staying flat. Today, the median San Francisco rent for a one-bed...
You Can Get a Prenup for Your Labubu Collection. Should You?
Prenuptial agreements are no longer just for the wealthy. They’re being pitched as smart financial planning for ordinary couples, and now more than 40...
A Public Defender’s Blueprint For How To Fix Our Criminal Justice System
The shortcomings and inequities of the American criminal justice system are painfully clear to those who have worked in it. Former public defender and...
CA Chocolatiers Adapt to Climate Change
Chocolate is changing — and not just in flavor. As the planet warms, cacao is becoming harder to grow, reshaping how chocolate is made and who gets to...
How Bad Bunny Fuses Activism and Global Superstardom
One week ahead of his much-anticipated Super Bowl performance, Bad Bunny made history when he won the first Grammy for album of the year for a Spanish...
UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter on AI's Healthcare Transformation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bob Wachter was one of the nation’s trusted voices, helping us better understand the disease that upended our world...
Iran and US Tensions Escalate
Against a backdrop of threats made by President Trump to attack Iran with “speed and violence,” talks between the two nations are set to resume this F...
Federal Agents Deploy High Tech to Track Protesters
As protests against federal immigration agents’ use of deadly force in Minneapolis spread nationwide, privacy experts are raising alarms. Immigration...
SF Public School Teachers Ready for First Strike Since 1979
Over the weekend, San Francisco’s public school teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The dispute is centered on pay, health benefits,...
Yewande Komolafe on Disability, Cooking and the Restorative Power of a Good Meal
New York Times cooking writer and columnist Yewande Komolafe has long loved the solitary, meditative act of crafting intricate meals and comfort foods...
George Saunders Takes on Mortality, Morality and Climate, Comically, in New Novel ‘Vigil’
George Saunders is one of America’s most celebrated writers. His worlds and characters often live in a reality just beyond or behind our own, and his...
Historian Jarvis Givens on Who Made Black History
This February marks 100 years of celebrating Black History month, which began as just a week in 1926. Now, as political efforts to scrub Black history...
Hearing Aids Work. So Why Don’t More People Wear Them?
Stigma. Discomfort. High pitched feedback. These are some reasons that people opt out of wearing hearing aids. Yet, hearing loss has been linked to de...
How Do You Friction-Maxx?
“Friction-maxxing,” a term coined by The Cut columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton, is the art of adding more inconvenience to our lives —as technology pushe...
Are Social Media Companies Responsible for Screen Addiction in Kids?
For years, experts, educators and parents have sounded alarms about the dangers of kids spending too much time on screens and now, artificial intellig...
How Prop 50 and Governor’s Race Are Shaping Early Midterm Projections
The 2026 midterm elections may be in November, but they’re top of mind for California voters who will elect a new governor this year and who passed Pr...
Are We 'Overinvested' in Our Kids?
There is near consensus on one facet of American life these days: parenting is hard. In surveys, most parents report being exhausted. Parenting is cen...
What's the Endgame in DHS Brutality?
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti on Saturday, the second U.S. citizen killed by federal agents in Minneapolis this month, is drawing bipartisan outra...
China’s Push for Renewable Energy is Good for the Planet, but Maybe Not for the U.S.
At Davos, Donald Trump claimed that China doesn’t use wind energy, or in his words, “windmills.” He could not be more wrong. In 2024, China accounted...
California ER Doctors Reflect on ‘The Pitt’ Effect
The popular HBO drama “The Pitt,” set in a Pittsburgh emergency trauma center, is having an impact on real-world healthcare. Doctors across California...
What Should Replace San Francisco Centre?
After years of being known as a defunct mall, San Francisco Centre officially closed last weekend leaving 1.2 million square feet of vacant space. The...
With Rare Candor, FBI Employees Sound Alarms about Kash Patel’s Leadership
It’s been nearly a year since Kash Patel took the helm of the FBI, a period New York Times reporter Emily Bazelon says has been “marred by vendettas,...
Heather Cox Richardson on Trump's Impact on Democracy
Calling out ICE and the National Guard to police Los Angeles, Portland and Minneapolis. DOGE and the evisceration of government institutions. Invading...
Meklit Hadero Reimagines Ethiopian Folk Songs: Live in Studio
San Francisco-based, Ethiopian-born singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero and her band join us live in the studio to play from her new album, “A Piece of In...
Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen on Freeing Ourselves from Metrics
Have you ever achieved a high GPA, crushed your Duolingo streak, or seen a surge of likes on social media… only to feel weirdly empty? Philosopher C....
Orphaned Ukrainian Children Navigate Loss and Recovery Amid War
Russia’s war in Ukraine has orphaned some 2000 Ukrainian children, leaving them with physical and psychological wounds and adult responsibilities beyo...