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City Lights Chief Book Buyer Paul Yamazaki on a Half Century Spent “Reading the Room”
When you walk into the historic, beloved City Lights in San Francisco’s North Beach, it’s easy to get lost in the winding shelves packed with thousan…
1 year, 10 months ago
NPR's Sarah McCammon on Leaving the Evangelical Church
While covering Trump’s 2016 campaign, NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon understood the white evangelical movement behind his political rise,…
1 year, 10 months ago
KQED Youth Takeover: We’re Getting a WNBA Team
The WNBA is coming to the Bay Area! Fans will have a new women’s team to cheer for, at a moment when female superstars like Caitlin Clark have captiv…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rainn Wilson from ‘The Office’ on Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
You’d be forgiven for associating Rainn Wilson primarily with Dwight Schrute, the overbearing, mansplaining geek on “The Office.” And in his bestsell…
1 year, 10 months ago
Forum From the Archives: Remembering Glide Memorial's Cecil Williams
Cecil Williams forever changed San Francisco, the Bay Area, and even the world. As the long-time pastor at Glide Memorial Church, known for serving t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Erik Aadahl on the Power of Sound in Film
We often think of film as a visual medium. But a carefully placed sound effect or a well crafted sonic atmosphere can evoke emotion just as profoundl…
1 year, 10 months ago
KQED Youth Takeover: How Can San Jose Schools Create Safer Campuses?
In 2020 and 2021, against a backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and Covid-19 pandemic, school districts across the country made the decision …
1 year, 10 months ago
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Major Homelessness Case
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in its biggest case on homelessness in decades. At issue is whether penalizing unhoused people for camping o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Percival Everett’s Novel “James” Recenters the Story of Huck Finn
In his new novel “James,” Percival Everett reimagines the story of Huck Finn through the eyes of the enslaved protagonist Jim. Where Twain used Jim a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Have We Entered Into a New Cold War Era?
In the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. foreign policy coalesced around the idea that Russia – and later China – would integr…
1 year, 10 months ago