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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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A Family Divided By Cuba’s Revolution
On May 13th, Cuba ran out of oil, crippling public services for nearly 10 million people. It’s a result of a months-long oil blockade initiated by the...
Can the Federal Reserve Retain Its Independence in the Trump Era?
The Federal Reserve Board begins this week with a new chair, Trump appointee Kevin Warsh. The Fed is a nonpartisan government body tasked with setting...
How to Get Better at Accepting – Even Appreciating – Uncertainty
Though our lives are filled with uncertainty, we’re less tolerant of it than ever, says journalist Simone Stolzoff, author of the new book “How to Not...
La Doña Presents Her New Album, 'Corrientes' Live in Studio
Singer, songwriter and San Francisco native Cecilia Peña-Govea – better known as La Doña – joins us in studio with her band for a special live perform...
A 'Monster' El Niño Is Brewing in the Pacific
An El Niño is starting to form in the tropical Pacific Ocean, and some forecasters say it could be a “monster,” the most powerful in 150 years. The we...
How Plastic Took Over the World – And How Big Oil is Betting on It
As the world moves away from fossil fuels, oil and gas companies are betting on plastic to keep profits rolling in. In her new book, “Plastic Inc.,” i...
The Hidden World of Forced Arbitration
Forced arbitration clauses are buried in everything from product warranties to bank loans to employment contracts, often requiring consumers and worke...
Republicans Are Winning the Redistricting War
Both Democrats and Republicans have turned to redistricting to improve their chances in this fall’s midterm elections. But a recent court case strikin...
The `Blood Populism’ Driving Political Violence in America
A 2025 study found political violence is shifting from a primarily right-wing phenomenon to one now more common on the left (fueled partly by a signif...
Project Homekey Is CA’s Ambitious Plan to House Homeless People. Is it Working?
California launched Project Homekey after the pandemic to quickly create new housing and get homeless people off the streets. Over the last few years...
U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Tested as Tensions Rise in Persian Gulf
Tensions remain high in the Persian Gulf as the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire late last week, calling into question whether an already fragile ceasefir...
Mac Barnett on How Kids Can Teach Us to Be Better Readers
Mac Barnett is a bestselling children’s book author and, since last year, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He has a new small b...
How Did You Find Your Life’s Work?
How can we find and start our life’s work? That’s the question Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jodi Kantor tried to answer for Columbia University’s s...
Tracy Clark-Flory’s “My Mother’s Daughter” Tells the Story of Finding Her Long-Lost Sister
When she was 16, journalist Tracy Clark-Flory found out that she had a long-lost sister. Her mother shared that as a teenager, she had given up a chil...
We're Living Online. Our Bodies Are Paying the Price
We’re spending too much time sitting behind screens. First we’re at our desks for eight, maybe ten hours. Then, all too often, we get home and plop on...
Low-Income Adults with Disabilities Stand to Lose SSI Benefits Under Proposed Trump Administration Rule
A proposed rule change for obtaining Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits could reduce or eliminate income for some 400,000 adults with Down sy...
Could a ‘Plastic Detox’ Help With Health and Fertility?
The new Netflix documentary “The Plastic Detox” follows six couples struggling with unexplained infertility, asking them to cut plastic from their liv...
What Did Mapping The Genome Get Us?
Pioneering geneticist J. Craig Venter, who revolutionized biology with his role in sequencing the human genome, died last week in San Diego. In this h...
When Will Alternative Meats Go Mainstream?
Humans eat more than 550 metric tons of meat and seafood a year — a number that’s steadily climbing, and expected to do so until at least 2050. At the...
Mary Cain Was A Running Prodigy, Until Abuse Derailed Her Career
As a teenager Mary Cain was a running phenom. At 17, she ran the 800 in under two minutes, and broke numerous national high school records. She went p...
What Animal Caregiving Reveals About Us
A blue whale mother that fasts for months while her calf puts on close to 250 pounds a day. A male hamster who acts as a midwife while his partner giv...
Court Battle Over Abortion Access Returns to Center Stage
After a federal appeals court on Friday blocked mail-order access to the abortion pill mifepristone, the Supreme Court stepped in to pause the ruling,...
It’s Not Personal: When Rejection Gets Political
We all know the stinging pain of rejection: the exclusion from a high-school in-group or the all-too-common experience of applying for a job and recei...
Stage Diving into Sonoma County’s Early Punk Scene
When punk rock thrashed through the Bay Area in the 70s and 80s, there were some venues that became iconic hubs, like Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco...
Scammers Pretended To Be Forum's Mina Kim. Here's Why
In the last month, about a dozen authors wrote to Forum saying they’d been messaged by a fraudster claiming to be Mina Kim. In exchange for a “small f...
Trump’s War in Iran Nears Critical Deadline
When President Trump sent troops into Iran, he did so without a green light from Congress. Now he faces a deadline on May 1 to either end the war in I...
Roundup: The Controversial Weedkiller Sprayed Throughout California Forests
The Supreme Court this week heard a case about Roundup, a weedkiller widely used in agriculture — and that tens of thousands claim has caused their ca...
When Your Devices Fritz And Your Digital Life Is Lost. What Next?
What happens when your hard drive gets fried and every photo documenting your kid’s life, or that novel you didn’t back up, or that cache of old email...
Have We Learned How to Talk About GLP1s?
An estimated one in eight Americans has now tried a GLP-1 medication like Ozempic or WeGovy: to lose weight, manage diabetes or experiment with anecdo...
How ‘Muskism’ is Reshaping America
Everyone has an opinion about Elon Musk, who has carved out a uniquely powerful place for himself in the worlds of auto-making, space launch, social m...
Tucker Carlson’s Reversal on Trump Raises Questions for MAGA
Tucker Carlson, the right wing pundit and onetime Donald Trump diehard, now says he regrets supporting the President. Carlson apologized on his show f...
How Can We Better Care for Foster Youth?
The death of a San Jose toddler in foster care has Santa Clara’s child welfare system scrambling to respond and politicians asking what went wrong. Si...
What an Accent Can – and Can’t – Say About You
Everyone has an accent, even people who don’t think they do. That’s according to linguist Valerie Fridland, who studies the way American accents have...
Remembering Classical Music Icon Michael Tilson Thomas
We’ll remember legendary conductor, composer, educator and San Francisco icon Michael Tilson Thomas who died on Wednesday. He served 25 years as music...
When The World Expects Hate, A Palestinian and An Israeli Choose Peace
Aziz Abu Sarah, who is Palestinian, and Maoz Inon, who is Israeli, have both lost family to the conflict in the Middle East. They are also both peaceb...
Why Do Certain Songs and Bands Go Viral?
Some fans of the indie-rock band Geese have been feeling betrayed after learning that TikToks that looked like they were made by fans were actually cr...
M Gessen Reckons with Familial Crime and Punishment
“The Idiot,” a new podcast from Serial and New York Times opinion columnist M. Gessen, shares the story of Gessen’s own cousin, Allen, who went to pri...
The Psychological Toll of Trump’s Immigration Policies on Bay Area Latinos
The Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration has many people feeling self-conscious about speaking Spanish in public or being recognized as La...
Anthropic’s New AI Mythos Is a Cybersecurity Game-Changer
The San Francisco AI firm Anthropic has developed a new model that it says is too powerful to be released to the public. Called Mythos, Anthropic says...
Paying for Graduate School Is Going To Get Harder
Going to graduate school has never been cheap. But sweeping new changes to the federal loan system – which will now have caps on how much you can borr...