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Climate and Community: National Service as the Solution, with AmeriCorps CEO Michael Smith
Service is fundamental to who we are as Americans and how we meet our local and national challenges. For nearly 30 years, AmeriCorps has connected people of all ages and backgrounds together to tackl…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Lucy Cooke: The Queens of the Animal Kingdom Show editorially warning
Since Darwin, evolutionary biology has been “all about the boys,” with the males of the species being the drivers of change and females simply passively devoted to them, zoologist Lucy Cooke argues. …
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Ambassador Chantale Wong: Global Economic Development, Rights and Equity
In February 2022, Chantale Wong was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in an overwhelming and bipartisan vote to serve as U.S. director of the Asian Development Bank, making her the first openly lesbian Se…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
CLIMATE ONE: Wanjira Mathai on Sustainable Development and the Power of Women
Africa is responsible for only less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet its people are already suffering some of the world’s most devastating climate impacts. For Wanjira Mathai, Regional…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Abortion Rights in America: The Future of Roe V. Wade and Women’s Rights
On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on abortion rights (in Dobbs v. Mississippi) that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that has provided federal protections and defined a wo…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Katy Tur: Rough Draft
A career in television journalism can be fraught with burnout, impostor syndrome and publicly aired stumbles. Especially in one of the craziest news eras America has ever seen, it is almost impossibl…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Behold! The Performing Arts Prevail
Anne W. Smith, the Commonwealth Club's Arts Member-led Forum chair, will moderate a discussion relative to restorative performing arts ideas and values, lingering pandemic issues and new implications…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
George P. Shultz, Exploring the Legacy of an Extraordinary American Statesman
The Ronald Reagan Institute Shultz Lecture Series was originally conceived to honor Secretary Shultz on the anniversary of his 100th birthday; to celebrate and introduce more people to his incredible…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Who Killed Jane Stanford?
Penetrating the fog of the coverup surrounding the murder of Stanford University's cofounder, historian Richard White deftly sifts through the evidence and reconstructs the full story. In 1885 Jane S…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Crisis at the Border: Helping Ukrainian Refugees Show editorially warningPlay
As we mark World Refugee Day, an international day to honor refugees, we invite you to celebrate the strength and courage of all those forced to flee their homes in Ukraine since the start of the Rus…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago