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Forum tells remarkable and true stories about who we are and where we live. In the first hour, Alexis Madrigal convenes the diverse voices of the Bay Area, before turning to Mina Kim for the second hour to chronicle and center Californians’ experience. In an increasingly divided world, Mina and Alexis host conversations that inform, challenge and unify listeners with big ideas and different viewpoints.Want to call/submit your comments during our live Forum program Mon-Fri, 9am-11am? We'd love to hear from you! Please dial 866.SF.FORUM or (866) 733-6786 or email [email protected], tweet, or post on Facebook.

How Trump's Immigration Crackdown is Playing Out in the Bay Area

57 mins; June 24, 2025

Molly Jong-Fast on 'How to Lose Your Mother'

57 mins; June 23, 2025

As Iran and Israel War Continues, What Does It Mean for the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora?

57 mins; June 23, 2025

Journalist Barbara Demick Traces Decades of Trauma From China’s One-Child Policy

57 mins; June 20, 2025

U.S. Weighs Role It Should Play in Escalating Israel-Iran Conflict

57 mins; June 20, 2025

Checking in on California’s Reparations Effort

57 mins; June 19, 2025

Stories of Resistance, Survival and Beauty from the Bay Area’s Trans Community

57 mins; June 19, 2025

Can the Left Win Back Working-Class Voters?

57 mins; June 18, 2025

Rebecca Solnit on Approaching These Times with Hope, Imagination and Perseverance

57 mins; June 18, 2025

‘When It All Burns’ Brings Us to the Fireline

57 mins; June 17, 2025

The Long Reach of San Francisco’s Housing Crisis

57 mins; June 17, 2025

RFK Jr. Stacks Key Federal Immunization Committee With Vaccine Skeptics

57 mins; June 16, 2025

How Trump’s Trade Deals Could Impact Jobs, Prices and Inflation

57 mins; June 16, 2025

Live on Forum: Jahari Stampley Family Trio

57 mins; June 13, 2025

What is Queer Food?

57 mins; June 13, 2025

Deployment of Marines and National Guard to LA Raises New Authoritarianism Concerns

57 mins; June 12, 2025

What Protests of the Past Can Teach Us About Protests of Today

57 mins; June 12, 2025

The ‘Take It Down Act,’ Explained

57 mins; June 11, 2025

SF Parks Alliance Collapse Leaves Residents and Community Groups Scrambling for Answers – And Money

57 mins; June 11, 2025

Quilt Exhibit at Berkeley Museum Chronicles Black Lives in California

57 mins; June 10, 2025

Tijuana River Pollution Reaches Crisis Point in San Diego County, Scientists Warn

57 mins; June 10, 2025

Trump Deploys National Guard Troops to Los Angeles

57 mins; June 09, 2025

California Rooftop Solar Is at a Crossroads

57 mins; June 09, 2025

Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus on How She Makes Her Signature Sounds, Live in Studio

57 mins; June 06, 2025

How Apple Fueled China's Economic and Technological Rise

57 mins; June 06, 2025

What It’s Like to Parent With Your Friends

57 mins; June 05, 2025

As Final AIDS LifeCycle Ride Ends, Where Does AIDS Research Stand?

57 mins; June 05, 2025

Is What Social Media Tells You About Protein… True?

57 mins; June 04, 2025

Robert Macfarlane on the Lives and Rights of Rivers

57 mins; June 04, 2025

How Multi-level Marketing Became America’s ‘Unseen Propaganda Factory’

57 mins; June 03, 2025

With So Much Vacant Ground Floor Retail, Why Are We Still Building More?

57 mins; June 03, 2025

How Trump’s Massive, Wide Ranging Budget Bill Could Affect You

57 mins; June 02, 2025

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on the ‘Original Sin’ Controversy

57 mins; June 02, 2025

Remembering George Floyd and the Racial Reckoning He Sparked

57 mins; May 30, 2025

Why the Mission-Style Burrito Defines the Bay Area

57 mins; May 30, 2025

Yosemite and Other CA National Parks Underfunded, Understaffed this Summer

57 mins; May 29, 2025

Bay Area Legends: Maxine Hong Kingston Changed What It Means to Tell an American Story

57 mins; May 29, 2025

How Do You Rate Newsom's Job Performance?

57 mins; May 28, 2025

What the Target Boycott Says About the Power of Consumers

57 mins; May 28, 2025

Alison Bechdel Parodies Her Fame in Comic Novel ‘Spent’

57 mins; May 27, 2025

BART Meltdowns, Fare Hikes, Budget Cuts and Other Bay Area Transit Woes

57 mins; May 27, 2025

Forum From the Archives: Jonathan Hirsch on Losing His Father to 'A Cult and Dementia'

57 mins; May 26, 2025

Forum from the Archives: The New Yorker’s Michael Luo on ‘the Epic Story of the Chinese in America'

57 mins; May 26, 2025

‘Second Life’ Looks at Parenting in an App-Obsessed World

57 mins; May 23, 2025

What’s on Your Summer Fun List?

57 mins; May 23, 2025

Live From East Oakland: Can $100 Million Revitalize Oakland’s Black Community?

57 mins; May 22, 2025

Trump’s Memecoin, Qatari Jet Raise Bipartisan Corruption Concerns

57 mins; May 22, 2025

From California to Kyiv, Advocates Fight for Return of Ukraine’s Stolen Children

57 mins; May 21, 2025

Celebrating 40 Years of West Coast Literature with Zyzzyva

57 mins; May 21, 2025

Exploring the Mysteries of the Brain with UCSF Dementia Researchers

57 mins; May 20, 2025

How Siblings Shape Us, Even in Adulthood

57 mins; May 20, 2025

What Are Your Allergy Season Questions?

53 mins; May 19, 2025

Without Temporary Protected Status, What's Next for Bay Area Afghan Refugee Community?

57 mins; May 19, 2025

The Evolution of Men’s Fashion with 'The Menswear Guy'

57 mins; May 16, 2025

Ballers, Unicorns, Valkyries, Oh My! Bay Area Sports Teams Bring Sparkle to the Summer

57 mins; May 16, 2025

The New Yorker’s Michael Luo on ‘the Epic Story of the Chinese in America’

57 mins; May 15, 2025

Jonathan Hirsch on Losing His Father to ‘A Cult and Dementia’

57 mins; May 15, 2025

Running on ‘Vibes’: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court’s Grievance Politics

57 mins; May 14, 2025

Trump Revives Fight Against Sanctuary Cities

57 mins; May 14, 2025

Historian Peniel E. Joseph on How 1963 ‘Cracked Open and Remade’ America

57 mins; May 13, 2025

What’s Next in Artificial Intelligence?

57 mins; May 13, 2025

What’s Behind the Trump Administration’s Push for More Children?

57 mins; May 12, 2025

Oakland’s Restaurant Scene Is Swimming in Praise, But Struggling to Stay Afloat

57 mins; May 12, 2025

Have You Been Priced Out of a Hobby?

58 mins; May 09, 2025

Summer Gardening: Tomatoes, Zucchini and Climate Change

57 mins; May 09, 2025

California Braces for Decline in International Tourists

57 mins; May 08, 2025

What Trump’s Massive Cuts Mean for Science and Research

57 mins; May 08, 2025

What Has a Wild Animal Taught You?

57 mins; May 07, 2025

A View from DC: How California Leaders are Navigating the Trump Administration

57 mins; May 07, 2025

California Public Media Reacts to Trump Administration's Attempt to Cut CPB Funds

57 mins; May 06, 2025

Agustin Fuentes on Why Sex is a Spectrum

57 mins; May 06, 2025

Trump's Tariff Strategy Risks Long-Term Damage to US-China Relationship

57 mins; May 05, 2025

Benicia Contends With Valero Refinery Closure

57 mins; May 05, 2025

Night of Ideas: Author Laila Lalami on her Dystopian 'Dream Hotel'

57 mins; May 02, 2025

The Joys — and Rules — of Baking

57 mins; May 02, 2025

CalMatters Investigates Why Dangerous California Drivers Are Still Behind the Wheel

57 mins; May 01, 2025

How a 45 foot Nude Has SF Debating Public Art

57 mins; May 01, 2025

Vietnamese Diaspora Reflects on 50 Years Since Vietnam War

57 mins; April 30, 2025

Trump’s First 100 Days: How DOGE Has Changed Government

57 mins; April 30, 2025

How Have You Been Affected by Trump’s First 100 Days?

57 mins; April 29, 2025

How Increased Autism Diagnoses Are Changing the Way We Think About Neurodiversity

57 mins; April 29, 2025

What’s a Photograph That Stands Out in Your Mind?

57 mins; April 28, 2025

Clint Smith on Telling the Truth About America’s History

57 mins; April 28, 2025

What Are Your Hopes for the Next Pope?

57 mins; April 25, 2025

Alison Gopnik and Anne-Marie Slaughter on Why We’re Not Paying Enough Attention to Caregiving

57 mins; April 25, 2025

Are We Facing a Constitutional Crisis?

57 mins; April 24, 2025

KQED Youth Takeover: Oakland Ballet Explores Immigrant Stories From Angel Island

57 mins; April 24, 2025

Fetal Personhood as 'The New Civil War over Reproduction'

57 mins; April 23, 2025

Trump Targets California International Students and Higher Ed

57 mins; April 23, 2025

KQED Youth Takeover: Deliberative Democracy Puts Dialogue and Reason at Center of Decision Making

57 mins; April 22, 2025

Bonnie Tsui on the Science, Symbolism and Strength of Muscle

57 mins; April 22, 2025

How Project 2025 Can Help Us Understand What Trump is Doing – and What’s Next

57 mins; April 21, 2025

How Did the Pandemic Change Work for You?

57 mins; April 21, 2025

'The Chaplain and the Doctor' Centers Empathy and Spirituality in Health Care

57 mins; April 18, 2025

The Home Insurance Crisis: A Conversation with Florida

57 mins; April 18, 2025

Artificial Intelligence’s Promises and Perils with Gary Rivlin

57 mins; April 17, 2025

Oakland Voters Await Results in Close Mayoral Election

57 mins; April 17, 2025

Democrats Call for Investigations into Trades Surrounding Tariff Pause

57 mins; April 16, 2025

How President Trump Aims to Dismantle Environmental Protections

57 mins; April 16, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Legal Migrants

57 mins; April 15, 2025

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