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Back to SearchWhat Steep Health Insurance Price Hikes Could Mean for Nearly 2 Million Californians on Covered CA
The cost of healthcare insurance is at the core of the government shutdown. Democrats and Republicans are at a stalemate over the extension of subsid…
5 months ago
Federal Workers Face New Round of Layoffs as Labor Rights Under Attack
Unions for federal employees say the White House is planning thousands more layoffs, even though a federal judge in San Francisco has blocked it. Thi…
5 months ago
Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got So Terrible, So Fast, and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow coined a word to describe how what we once loved about the internet, and relied on, has become exploitative, corrosive, and anti-user. …
5 months ago
SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim and the Del Sol Quartet’s New Performance Celebrates Asian American Diaspora
Why do we leave our homelands? That is the central question which animates the newest work of San Francisco poet laureate Genny Lim and the Bay Area-…
5 months ago
Get Ready to be ‘Spooked’ this Halloween
Glynn Washington, host of KQED and Snap Judgment’s “Spooked,” joins us to talk about the podcast’s new season called The Crossroads. It takes stories…
5 months ago
Are You Going to a 'No Kings' Protest? And The Benefits of a 'Best' Friend
Millions of people are expected to take part in "No Kings" protests this Saturday in over 2000 cities across the country. The demonstrations are bein…
5 months ago
Mychal Threets on Reviving 'Reading Rainbow' And Tech Titans and Trump Want National Guard in SF
In a news conference Wednesday, President Trump said he will be “strongly recommending” his administration look into sending troops to the city, whic…
5 months ago
Historian Jill Lepore on Amending the Constitution And Rep. Peter Aguilar on the Shutdown
Why is it so hard to change the U.S. Constitution? Harvard historian Jill Lepore says the Constitution was intended to be amended but that we’ve all …
5 months ago
In “We Survived the Night,” Julian Brave NoiseCat Weaves Memoir with Indigenous Myth and History
Julian Brave NoiseCat’s paternal family traces their origins to the Coyote, a trickster from native mythology who helped create the world. The story …
5 months ago
Trump and World Leaders Sign Gaza Ceasefire Deal
At a summit in Egypt on Monday, President Trump and world leaders signed the first phase of a ceasefire agreement aimed at bringing to an end the bru…
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