Location:
San Francisco, United States
Networks:
KALW
Description:
KALW's call-in show: Politics and culture, dialogue and debate.
Language:
English
Episodes
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
The US–Ukraine minerals deal & the alarming drop in bird populations
5/12/2025
We discuss the mineral agreement between the US and Ukraine, and find out why bird populations in North America are declining in regions where they were most abundant.
Duration:00:52:18
The human cost of Trump's DOGE cuts & the rise of Trump’s crypto firm
5/9/2025
We discuss The DOGE Impact Tracker, a new project from Capital & Main, a The New York Times investigation exposing the Trump family's expanding global crypto business.
Duration:00:52:06
Trump cuts SF International Arts Festival funding midway through shows
5/8/2025
As the celebrated festival was underway, organizers learned that a $20,000 NEA grant would be immediately cancelled. "Trump will not stop us," said director Andrew Wood.
Duration:00:11:11
Democracy Forward files 60 lawsuits against the Trump administration
5/8/2025
Democracy Forward has filed 60 legal actions and launched 82 investigations under the current Trump administration. They say their work is just beginning.
Duration:00:40:54
What can we do to fix our broken mental health care system?
5/7/2025
Dr. Nicholas Rosenlicht says the mental health care system is functioning as intended, providing profits for corporations. What will it take to change it?
Duration:00:52:09
Trump's 2nd term met with greater resistance in all 50 states
5/6/2025
Activists and everyday people across the country are taking to the streets to resist Donald Trump and Elon Musk. How are they preparing for the many fights to come?
Duration:00:52:10
The dire consequences of Trump’s assault on NOAA
5/5/2025
We speak with Craig McLean, a former top chief scientist at NOAA, about the importance of the nation's leading science agency and the fight to save it.
Duration:00:24:51
Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages
5/5/2025
Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages, a Frontline documentary, examines how Indigenous communities in Alaska are fighting for survival in the face of climate change.
Duration:00:27:09
The Trump administration's war on children and the judiciary
5/2/2025
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds for investigating child abuse, providing child care, and more, according to ProPublica.
Duration:00:52:08
Activists gather on May Day to build united front against Trump
5/1/2025
People from all 50 states are taking to the streets to stand up against the Trump administration's attacks on human rights, the environment, and public services.
Duration:00:12:10
Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation & Makes Us Sick
5/1/2025
Murray Carpenter argues that the Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don't know that Coke is one of the deadliest products in our diet.
Duration:00:39:54
What have we learned 50 years after the end of the Vietnam War?
4/30/2025
Historian Christian Appy argues the resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in US. history. We have all but forgotten it today.
Duration:00:52:04
Whats the future of the Electric Vehicles?
4/28/2025
Between Trump’s threats, tariffs, and Elon Musk, how's the overall EV industry doing?
Duration:00:51:35
The human costs of Trump's immigration crackdown
4/25/2025
We discuss the plight of undocumented immigrants facing deportation to El Salvador and the troubling case of a Tufts University PhD scholar in detention.
Duration:00:52:06
Reflections on 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War
4/24/2025
Vietnamese writers reflect on the end of the war and discuss "The Cleaving, Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora," a new book of conversations with over 30 writers.
Duration:00:52:05
Food Revolution Summit focuses on food, health & planetary survival
4/23/2025
This year's free online Food Revolution Summit features doctors who will share the latest science on transforming the health of our communities and the planet.
Duration:00:52:04