Location:
San Francisco, United States
Networks:
KALW
Description:
KALW's call-in show: Politics and culture, dialogue and debate.
Language:
English
Episodes
How to reverse and prevent chronic diseases with a healthy diet
6/5/2025
An unhealthy diet is the leading risk factor for death in the US, according to research published in the Lancet. Studies show a healthy diet can reverse chronic diseases.
Duration:00:52:17
How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
6/4/2025
Professor Joan Williams is back to continue our discussion about her new book, "Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back."
Duration:00:52:12
Social service advocates slam Governor Newsom's proposed budget cuts
6/3/2025
Governor Newsom’s budget would drastically cut a variety of social programs. Advocates say balancing the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable is a moral failure.
Duration:00:52:05
The overconsumption and health effects of ultra-processed foods
6/2/2025
We continue our series on cancer, chronic disease, and prevention by talking about the rise of ultra-processed foods in the US, which is at all-time high.
Duration:00:53:01
Kids Under Fire In Gaza
5/30/2025
A new Al Jazeera/Reveal documentary tells the story of 20 US doctors who have witnessed a systematic pattern of Palestinian children shot by the Israeli military.
Duration:00:26:12
Native tribes sue US government over deaths, abuse at boarding schools
5/29/2025
Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgepeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970.
Duration:00:52:23
How are you reflecting five years after the murder of George Floyd?
5/28/2025
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa discuss their Pulitzer Prize winning book, "His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice."
Duration:00:52:05
Biden's aggressive prostate cancer diagnosis, testing & treatment
5/27/2025
Doctors say aggressive forms of prostate cancer are difficult to catch. How can we improve screening protocols to prevent late stage diagnoses and improve survival rates?
Duration:00:52:23
Trump's budget calls for deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps
5/23/2025
The GOP budget bill combines $1 trillion in cuts to federal health and food programs with nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts, which mostly benefit high earners.
Duration:00:26:42
How the US is lobbying foreign governments for Elon Musk’s Starlink
5/23/2025
After Musk’s rise to power in the US government, the State Department has repeatedly lobbied a West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company.
Duration:00:25:17
Uncuffed empowers people in prison to tell their own stories
5/22/2025
Uncuffed's Greg Eskridge will discuss his work on the inside and outside. On July 23, 2024, he was released from San Quentin after serving 30 years and 25 days.
Duration:00:52:14
How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
5/21/2025
In her new book, "Outclassed," Professor Joan Williams says if liberals want to win, they must change the class dynamics driving US politics.
Duration:00:52:19
Trump strips Afghans and Venezuelans of deportation protections
5/20/2025
The same day the Trump administration welcomed a group of white South Africans to the US, they got rid of deportation protections for over 9,000 Afghan refugees.
Duration:00:51:42
The environmental and health impacts of AI data centers
5/19/2025
As of early 2025, the United States had more than 5,000 data centers, according to industry reports, compared to around 1,000 just five years earlier.
Duration:00:52:06
For one Texas county, arresting migrants made big money
5/16/2025
According to a New York Times investigation, Kinney County, Texas, collected some $1.7 million in bail from migrants who were deported. The money was never returned.
Duration:00:23:11
Israeli airstrikes kill hundreds in Gaza as Trump visits Gulf
5/16/2025
At least 143 Palestinians have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday as the death toll passes 53,000.
Duration:00:29:05
The Trump cuts have already 'devastated promising cancer research'
5/15/2025
A report from Senator Bernie Sanders found that Trump officials cut $2.7B in NIH funding in the first three months of 2025, including a 31 percent cut to cancer research.
Duration:00:52:07
Trump budget cuts would shut down suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth
5/14/2025
A Trump administration budget proposal would end funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth in October. The Trevor Project says this line saves lives.
Duration:00:37:36
What will it take to save California's free mental health line?
5/14/2025
Without renewed funding from the state, the California Warm Line could be shut down on July 1. Since 2019, it has responded to over 500,000 calls, texts, and chats.
Duration:00:14:23
Native American scholars discuss Trump's second term
5/13/2025
Native American scholars discuss how our history can help us make sense of the current political moment. What can our past tell us about what’s to come?
Duration:00:52:01