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Uncovering Brutality, Cover-Up and Corruption in Oakland
The killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the mass protests that followed opened many Americans’ eyes to cases of police brutality and misc…
3 years, 3 months ago
Congresswoman Jackie Speier: The Exit Interview
Congresswoman Jackie Speier chose to close out her congressional career at the end of 2022 and did not seek another term. Her departure from Congress…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ed Larson: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of Our Nation
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ed Larson returns to The Commonwealth Club with a revealing look at how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in …
3 years, 3 months ago
CLIMATE ONE: Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea
When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon dio…
3 years, 3 months ago
With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops Tell Their Stories
On January 25, 2021, in one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden reversed the Trump administration’s widely condemned ban on transgender people …
3 years, 3 months ago
No Straight Lines: How Queer Comics Artists Changed Their World
From Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Vivian Kleiman (Color Adjustment) comes an in-depth look at the evolution of queer comics, starting in the 1970s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Brian Wong: The Tao of Alibaba
If you took the economic might of Amazon, and added the penetration of Facebook, the ubiquity of Google, and the cultural significance of YouTube, yo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Week To Week Political Roundtable: 2023 Kickoff
Join us for our first Week to Week political roundtable for the new year, as we look at the impact of the November 2022 election, the relationship be…
3 years, 4 months ago
How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
The pandemic put into stark relief the undue burden faced by working poor women in America. Many were laid off or had to quit for COVID-related reaso…
3 years, 4 months ago
Dr. Elissa Epel and Nobel Laureate Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn: Stress, Resilience, and Healthy Aging
Does stress really age us? Everyone experiences different levels of stress from family, friends, work, or just uncertainty in the world. And while we…
3 years, 4 months ago