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Poet Kevin Young Explores History and Loss in His Newest Collection, "Night Watch"

New Yorker magazine poetry editor Kevin Young has called poetry “the most efficient mode of time travel.” In his new volume of poems “Night Watch,” Y…

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Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience

Climatologist Michael Mann and vaccine expert Peter Hotez say we’re in an “antiscience superstorm.” It’s a movement that has upended federal health a…

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The Uncertain Future of Bay Area Transit

For the second time in just four months, BART had a systemwide outage on Friday, stranding morning commuters for hours and bringing Bay Bridge traffi…

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Would Your Relationship Survive a Shipwreck?

After a whale struck Maurice and Maralyn Bailey’s boat in 1972, the British couple found themselves stranded on a tiny rubber raft in the Pacific Oce…

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Trump Cuts to SNAP Program Threaten to Increase Hunger Locally, Nationwide

Every month, 5.5 million Californians rely on Cal Fresh, the state’s version of food stamps. But Trump’s $186 billion in cuts to SNAP, the nation’s p…

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Your AI Chatbot Is Designed to Keep You Talking, But At What Cost?

Millions of people are having deeply personal conversations with AI chatbots, but how safe are these interactions? We’re joined by two technology rep…

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Robert Reich Retired from Teaching but Continues to Educate on Inequality, Corporate Power and Democracy in America

Political economist, educator, author, and former labor secretary, Robert Reich, has spent decades examining inequality as a way to make sense of the…

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What Will It Take to Complete California’s High Speed Rail?

California’s long-delayed high speed rail project is finally ready to start laying tracks in the Central Valley next year. But the Trump administrati…

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Ask Your Mayor: Oakland’s Barbara Lee

After decades spent representing the East Bay in Congress, Barbara Lee was inaugurated as Oakland’s new mayor three months ago. She’s now at the helm…

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Forum From the Archives: What Has a Wild Animal Taught You?

When political advisor Chloe Dalton found an injured newborn hare near her home in the countryside, she decided to nurse it back to health. The two q…

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