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Is Hollywood’s New ‘Magical, Colorblind Past’ a Good Thing?

KQED's Forum - May 09, 2024 19:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Recent Hollywood films and TV shows have taken to presenting a “Magical Multiracial Past,” according to filmmaker Kabir Chibber in a recent New York Times Magazine article. It’s a past where “every race exists, cheerfully and seemingly as equals, in the same place at the same time. History become...

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House GOP Targets Berkeley Schools in Antisemitism Hearing

KQED's Forum - May 09, 2024 18:54 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Berkeley Unified School District superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel testified before Congress on Wednesday as part of hearings examining how K-12 school districts are handling anti-semitism in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks and Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. Republicans say the education ...

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280. Dan Osborn. Independent Navy Veteran For Senate From Nebraska. From Steamfitter to Senate Candidate. Keeping It Real As A Winning Strategy. RFK Jr’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Brain Worms. DeSantising. Little League Life Lessons.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff - May 09, 2024 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 559 ratings
Welcome back to our groundbreaking “Meet The 2024 Independent Candidates” series—highlighting independent candidates of all kinds, for all levels of office, from all across America. In our second episode in the series we met Shelane Etchison, our first independent VETERAN candidate.  This episode...

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Kevin McCarthy on his enemies and making peace with Trump after being ousted as House Speaker

Power Play - May 09, 2024 04:01 - 26 minutes
Among the business leaders, philanthropists and other luminaries attending this year's Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles are politicians — looking to set the record straight, with an eye to future opportunities. Power Play host Anne McElvoy joined the Beverly Hills crowd — and t...

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Illia Ponomarenko on Reporting From Ukraine’s Front Lines

KQED's Forum - May 08, 2024 20:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Illia Ponomarenko was a 29-year-old journalist for the newspaper he co-founded, The Kyiv Independent. His daily, on-the-ground reporting quickly captured an international audience: by 2023 the German media organization Der Spiegel called him “likely t...

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Lookout Santa Cruz Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Its Storm Coverage

KQED's Forum - May 08, 2024 19:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting was awarded to the staff of Lookout Santa Cruz on Monday. The prize committee praised the tiny, digital-only media outlet for its “detailed and nimble community-focused coverage” of the catastrophic flooding and mudslides last year that did grea...

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Amor Towles on his New Short Story Collection 'Table for Two'

KQED's Forum - May 07, 2024 19:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Amor Towles says the title of his new book “Table for Two” arose from a subconscious conviction “that our lives can often change materially due to a single conversation.” And it’s the power of a conversation – or a chance encounter or a sudden decision – to force a personal or historical reckonin...

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SFMOMA’s New Collaboration with Artists with Disabilities

KQED's Forum - May 07, 2024 19:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
If you go to the SFMOMA right now, it’ll be hard to miss the massive, 32-foot wide mural depicting a utopian, fantastical and hopeful version of San Francisco. The mural is the opening to a historic exhibition, “The House that Art Built,” which showcases eleven artists with developmental disabili...

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Gaza War Ceasefire Talks Continue as Israel Threatens Rafah Invasion

KQED's Forum - May 06, 2024 19:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
As the war between Israel and Hamas enters its eighth month, U.S., Egyptian and Qatari mediators are awaiting an official response from Hamas on a proposed ceasefire deal that calls for the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. The latest reports have stated that talks have broke...

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Will the U.S. Really Ban TikTok?

KQED's Forum - May 06, 2024 19:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
What’s next for TikTok? President Biden signed legislation on April 24 that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells to a U.S-based company. Supporters of the law say TikTok poses national security risks, warning that the Chinese government could potentiall...

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A Genocidal Massacre is Looming in Darfur

Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters - May 06, 2024 02:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
El Fasher is the largest city in Sudan's Darfur region. It is also one of the few major cities in Darfur that has not fallen to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the civil war that broke out last year. However, an attack on El Fasher seems imminent. The RSF has surrounded the ci...

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California PUC Considers New Fixed Charge for Electricity

KQED's Forum - May 03, 2024 18:52 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Beginning as early as next year you might see a new fixed monthly charge of up to $24 on your electric bill. That’s if the California Public Utilities Commission approves a proposal to rework how we pay for power. The CPUC, which is taking a vote next week, says that the new charge would lower el...

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Oakland’s Leila Mottley on Her Debut Collection of Poetry ‘woke up no light’

KQED's Forum - May 03, 2024 18:47 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
In her new book of poems, “woke up no light” Leila Mottley writes: play dead / play docile / play along / stare a beast in its mouth and dare it to bite / this is the only way to know if / the country is still hungry. We talk to Leila Mottley, who was Oakland’s 2018 Youth Poet Laureate, about her...

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Don't quote the Bible!!

Gives 0 - May 03, 2024 03:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Alice Wong Redefines ‘Disability Intimacy’ in New Anthology

KQED's Forum - May 02, 2024 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
“Intimacy is about relationships within a person’s self, with others, with communities, with nature, and beyond,” writes Alice Wong, founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project and editor of the new anthology, “Disability Intimacy.” When Wong began work on the book, she googled what...

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How a Massive California Prison Hunger Strike Overhauled Solitary Confinement

KQED's Forum - May 02, 2024 18:56 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
In 2013, inmates at Pelican Bay, a supermax California prison designed to hold large numbers of inmates in isolation, went on a hunger strike to protest indefinite solitary confinement. The hunger strike grew to include nearly 30,000 California prisoners, and led to an overhaul of prison policies...

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279. Shelane Etchison. Special Operations Combat Veteran Running As An Independent For Congress From North Carolina. Can She Beat An Extreme GOP Incumbent and a Dem Who’s Not From There? Will Ft Bragg/Liberty Rally for One of Their Own? Chaos on Campuses.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff - May 02, 2024 07:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 559 ratings
Welcome back to our groundbreaking “Meet The 2024 Independent Candidates” series—highlighting independent candidates of all kinds, for all levels of office, from all across America. In our second episode in the series, following independent Jared Young running for Senate in Missouri, we have our ...

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Trump, Xi and how the China-US relationship faces a reset

Power Play - May 02, 2024 04:01 - 30 minutes
Elbridge Colby is a hot pick to be Donald Trump's national security adviser if the former president returns to the White House next year. It's a role which holds huge sway over America's position on the world stage. An influential voice in foreign policy circles in Washington, Colby leads the M...

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Bird Flu is Now Spreading in Dairy Cattle. Are Humans Next?

Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters - May 02, 2024 02:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
H5N1, otherwise known as Avian or Bird Flu, has been around for a long time. Mostly, the virus has been passed among wild birds, but there have also been sporadic outbreaks in poultry flocks. Now, the virus has spread to dairy cattle and, in at least two cases, from cattle to people. This has ex...

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Happy May Day

Gives 0 - May 02, 2024 01:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings
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How to Spend this Summer Camping California

KQED's Forum - May 01, 2024 19:44 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Summer camping season is around the corner, and California’s parks and recreation areas have something for everyone: secluded sites in the Sierra backcountry, campgrounds with RV hook-ups and a view of the Pacific, yurts, tent cabins and even campsites that float. We’ll get tips on scoring reserv...

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KQED Series ‘Beyond the Menu’ Tells the Backstory of Food

KQED's Forum - May 01, 2024 19:20 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Hong Kong’s famed pineapple bun does not contain pineapples. Samosas can be found in many cultures outside of India. And the birria taco owes a lot to indigenous cultures who helped cultivate a love and devotion to chiles. These are some of the surprising food backstories that host Cecilia Philli...

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Paul Wolfowitz on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and a Life in Foreign Policy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Uncommon Knowledge - May 01, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Currently a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Paul Wolfowitz previously served as director of policy planning at the State Department, as US ambassador to Indonesia, as under secretary of defense for policy, as dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, as ...

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Inside Mexico's Clandestine Drug Treatment Centers

KQED's Forum - April 30, 2024 19:40 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Across Mexico, clandestine treatment centers for drug addiction – locally referred to as anexos – have been accused of unethical therapeutic practices and even patient abuse. But among Mexico’s working poor, in the absence of government support, they provide hope and protection from the country’s...

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What’s Next for Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests

KQED's Forum - April 30, 2024 19:39 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Protests against Israel’s war in Gaza continue to grow and spread on college campuses in the Bay Area and across the country. The protests gained momentum earlier this month after more than 100 demonstrators were arrested at Columbia University in protests demanding the school divest from compani...

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Violence Escalates in Sudan as Civil War Enters Second Year

KQED's Forum - April 29, 2024 19:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
The United Nations on Friday warned of a “dramatic escalation of tensions” among warring parties near El Fasher, North Darfur. The area is already on the brink of famine, according to the UN, and an attack on the city could have devastating consequences for civilians. The crisis in El Fasher come...

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City Lights Chief Book Buyer Paul Yamazaki on a Half Century Spent “Reading the Room”

KQED's Forum - April 29, 2024 19:23 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
When you walk into the historic, beloved City Lights in San Francisco’s North Beach, it’s easy to get lost in the winding shelves packed with thousands of titles from classic literature, poetry and philosophy to contemporary fiction. There’s a legendary man behind the careful curation. Chief book...

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The United Kingdom and Rwanda Enter a Dangerous Pact for Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters - April 29, 2024 02:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
The Parliament of the United Kingdom has passed a controversial new law that would allow the government to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. Under the so-called "Safety of Rwanda" bill, the Rishi Sunak government has pledged to send migrants from the UK to Rwanda, where their asylum claims would...

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Searching for Another England, with Caroline Lucas and Grace Blakeley, Part Two

Intelligence Squared - April 27, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Englishness has been hijacked by the right. The flag of St. George’s Cross is proudly waved at far-right rallies. Conservative politicians insult the Left as being anti-English. And our history has been weaponised by cheerleaders for Brexit, exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia. That's the argum...

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NPR's Sarah McCammon on Leaving the Evangelical Church

KQED's Forum - April 26, 2024 19:24 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
While covering Trump’s 2016 campaign, NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon understood the white evangelical movement behind his political rise, because she grew up in that world. McCammon left the church troubled by the misogyny, homophobia and racism she witnessed. That experience is at th...

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