Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFired Federal Immigration Judges Speak Out
The Trump administration has fired dozens of immigration judges in California seemingly without cause and despite growing backlogs of cases. Judges w…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
California Takes On Potent Synthetic Drug 7-OH
Reports are rising of addiction, overdose and death tied to 7-OH, a potent new synthetic drug. The painkiller is a lab-made offshoot of the herbal dr…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
How Intelligence – Both Human and Artificial – Happens
How exactly does the mind work? How do we learn and make decisions? And how does that compare to the way AI thinks? In their new book, “The Emergent …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Rabbi Calls for Boundless Compassion Amid Divides
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl leads the largest synagogue in New York City. But she says she’s never been so afraid to talk about Israel. That’s because she …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
What 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…
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
6 months, 3 weeks 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. …
6 months, 3 weeks 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-…
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
6 months, 3 weeks ago