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Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's largest public affairs forum. The nonpartisan and nonprofit Club produces and distributes programs featuring diverse viewpoints from thought leaders on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast — the oldest in the U.S., since 1924 — is carried on hundreds of stations. Our website features audio and video of our programs. This podcast feed is usually updated multiple times each week.

CLIMATE ONE: Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival

54 mins; September 16, 2022

Queer and Trans People in the AAPI Movement

68 hours 14 mins; September 16, 2022

Join Us at the Club: Celebrating the Oyster!

52 mins; September 15, 2022

Saving Freud

65 hours 18 mins; September 13, 2022

Congressman David Cicilline: Fighting for Democracy Matters

59 mins; September 10, 2022

My Friend Is a Science Denier—What Can I Do?

58 mins; September 09, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung

54 mins; September 09, 2022

Why Have False Beliefs and Conspiracy Theories Become so Powerful?

68 hours 11 mins; September 06, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Bridging The Great American Divide

60 hours 45 mins; September 02, 2022

Gods of Want: Author K-Ming Chang Show editorially warning

64 hours 58 mins; August 31, 2022

Week to Week: Fall Election 2022

64 hours 21 mins; August 26, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Ukraine and the Middle East: Climate Action in Conflict Zones

56 mins; August 26, 2022

Free Chol Soo Lee: The Effort to Right a Legal Wrong Show editorially warningPlay

61 hours 58 mins; August 24, 2022

Moiya McTier: Understanding the Milky Way

66 hours 49 mins; August 23, 2022

Funny and Disabled: An Evening of Comedy and Conversation

65 hours 25 mins; August 19, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?

54 mins; August 19, 2022

Jason Kander with Congressman Adam Schiff: Politics, Progress and PTSD

65 hours 37 mins; August 18, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: The Inflation Reduction Act: What’s in the Sausage?

60 hours 55 mins; August 10, 2022

Building Safe Spaces with GAPA Runway and LGBTQIA+ Leaders

64 hours 10 mins; August 10, 2022

Psychiatry and Its Discontents

67 hours 35 mins; August 08, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: REWIND: Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism

54 mins; August 05, 2022

Humankindness and Health Justice Series: The Intersection of Mental Health and Equity

65 hours 1 min; August 03, 2022

The Human Rights Foundation and Justice in Syria Show editorially warningPlay

57 mins; August 02, 2022

Larry Baer: The San Francisco Giants' 2022 Season

65 hours 24 mins; July 29, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency

62 hours 22 mins; July 29, 2022

Katie Hafner, Author of ""The Boys""

58 mins; July 28, 2022

Mark Leibovich: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

68 hours 23 mins; July 27, 2022

Malcolm Nance: Behind the Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

79 hours 17 mins; July 25, 2022

Craig McNamara: Because Our Fathers Lied

72 hours 12 mins; July 23, 2022

Ian Morris: Geography Is Destiny

76 hours 56 mins; July 22, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel

54 mins; July 22, 2022

Mary Ziegler: How the Anti-Abortion Movement Remade America

67 hours 23 mins; July 20, 2022

Daniel Byman: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism

64 hours 41 mins; July 19, 2022

Alice Waters: We Are What We Eat

73 hours 53 mins; July 15, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: On The Run: Voluntary and Forced Climate Migration

59 mins; July 15, 2022

Tim Miller: Inside the New Republican Party

74 hours 44 mins; July 14, 2022

Addressing Humanitarian Crisis Prevention and Response

65 hours 25 mins; July 12, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: REWIND: Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene

61 hours 46 mins; July 08, 2022

Climate Change, Our Youths, and Mental Health

65 hours 18 mins; July 07, 2022

Sacred Mountains of the World

67 hours 37 mins; July 06, 2022

Climate and Community: National Service as the Solution, with AmeriCorps CEO Michael Smith

61 hours 22 mins; July 05, 2022

Lucy Cooke: The Queens of the Animal Kingdom Show editorially warning

70 hours 56 mins; July 02, 2022

Ambassador Chantale Wong: Global Economic Development, Rights and Equity

62 hours 38 mins; July 01, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Wanjira Mathai on Sustainable Development and the Power of Women

55 mins; July 01, 2022

Abortion Rights in America: The Future of Roe V. Wade and Women’s Rights

64 hours 48 mins; June 30, 2022

Katy Tur: Rough Draft

66 hours 31 mins; June 29, 2022

Behold! The Performing Arts Prevail

66 hours 57 mins; June 28, 2022

George P. Shultz, Exploring the Legacy of an Extraordinary American Statesman

87 hours 22 mins; June 26, 2022

Who Killed Jane Stanford?

75 hours 12 mins; June 25, 2022

Crisis at the Border: Helping Ukrainian Refugees Show editorially warningPlay

81 hours 52 mins; June 24, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Rebuilding for Climate: Successful City Strategies

55 mins; June 24, 2022

Break the Bias with Linda Yvette Chávez Show editorially warning

65 hours 12 mins; June 23, 2022

How the National Science Foundation Supports and Translates Innovation

54 mins; June 22, 2022

Dan Pfeiffer: Battling the Big Lie

74 hours 44 mins; June 21, 2022

James Kirchick: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

65 hours 36 mins; June 17, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: REWIND: Climate Miseducation

59 mins; June 17, 2022

Building a Future of Black and Asian Coalition

74 hours 55 mins; June 16, 2022

Mapping the Route to Equitable Road User Charges: The 13th Annual Mineta National Transportation Policy Summit

117 hours 46 mins; June 15, 2022

Keith Boykin: The Politics of a Darkening America

62 hours 49 mins; June 13, 2022

91st Annual California Book Awards

46 mins; June 11, 2022

Robert Baer: Putin, Russia and the Hunt for a KGB Spy

63 hours 9 mins; June 10, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Digging Deep into the Next Farm Bill

55 mins; June 10, 2022

Angela Garbes and Jenny Odell: Essential Labor, Mothering as Social Change

68 hours 23 mins; June 09, 2022

Sheng Thao and Connie Wun: Today's AAPI Women Show editorially warning

70 hours 22 mins; June 06, 2022

Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

61 hours 14 mins; June 03, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Disrupted Energy Markets: Fossil Revival or Renewable Opportunity?

55 mins; June 03, 2022

Kwame Onwuachi: Recipes From a Young Black Chef

60 hours 17 mins; June 02, 2022

Democrats and Rural Voters: How to Rebuild Trust

58 mins; June 01, 2022

Robert Kuttner: FDR's Legacy and President Biden's New Deal Opportunity

59 mins; May 31, 2022

San Francisco Decides: The District Attorney Recall Election Show editorially warning

69 hours 58 mins; May 30, 2022

Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

58 mins; May 29, 2022

Let’s Talk Solutions: The Future of Bay Area Housing

78 hours 26 mins; May 28, 2022

Bill Gates: How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

68 hours 38 mins; May 27, 2022

Indigenous Insights on Healing Land and Sky

56 mins; May 27, 2022

Housing, Race and Homelessness: Ending Poverty in the Bay Area Show editorially warning

66 hours 6 mins; May 26, 2022

Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster: Technology, Social Media and the Fight for Racial Justice

70 hours 8 mins; May 25, 2022

Francis Fukuyama: Liberalism and Its Discontents Show editorially warning

64 hours 59 mins; May 24, 2022

The Annual Innovate for Good Conference

122 hours 3 mins; May 22, 2022

From D.C. to Silicon Valley to Hollywood: Leadership Lessons We Learned Along the Way

68 hours 20 mins; May 21, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Coping with Climate through Music

55 mins; May 20, 2022

Inclusion: How Hawaii Protected its Japanese Americans from Mass Incarceration after Pearl Harbor

65 hours 38 mins; May 20, 2022

Ukraine's Patriotism, Putin's Brutality and World Empathy

66 hours 44 mins; May 19, 2022

Inside Design with Tony Fadell

68 hours 46 mins; May 18, 2022

Dr. Mary Lamia and Michael Krasny: Understanding Grief

68 hours 33 mins; May 17, 2022

CNN’s John Avlon

71 hours 41 mins; May 15, 2022

Joel Simon and Robert Mahoney: The Infodemic

69 hours 46 mins; May 14, 2022

Paul Holes: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases

78 hours 30 mins; May 13, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Russ Feingold on Biodiversity, Climate and The Courts

55 mins; May 13, 2022

Yascha Mounk: The Fate of Diverse Decomcracies

87 hours 3 mins; May 12, 2022

LGBTQIA Ukraine, with Anya Zoledziowski of Vice World News

64 hours 33 mins; May 11, 2022

Dr. Deborah Birx: The Untold Story of Fighting COVID-19

65 hours 32 mins; May 10, 2022

Charles Booker: The Young Democrats and the Fight for America's Future

57 mins; May 10, 2022

Terry Crews: My Journey to True Power

66 hours 33 mins; May 09, 2022

Matthew Continetti: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

72 hours 41 mins; May 08, 2022

Recent Brain Research on the Rejuvenating Power of Sleep

73 hours 13 mins; May 07, 2022

Week to Week Political Roundtable: May 2, 2022

74 hours 8 mins; May 06, 2022

CLIMATE ONE: Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action

56 mins; May 06, 2022

Chinatown Museum Reopens: Experience New Exhibits in Virtual Reality

62 hours 29 mins; May 05, 2022

Filmmaker Débora Souza Silva: Black Mothers Love and Resist

65 hours 14 mins; May 04, 2022

Star Chef Matt Horn: On West Coast Barbecue and the Future of Hospitality

67 hours 59 mins; May 03, 2022

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