Location:
San Francisco, United States
Networks:
KALW
Description:
KALW's call-in show: Politics and culture, dialogue and debate.
Language:
English
Episodes
How climate change supercharged Hurricane Melissa
10/31/2025
Climate Central’s rapid attribution study found that climate change strengthened Melissa’s winds by about 10 mph, which has devastated communities across the Caribbean.
Duration:00:16:29
'Out of Plain Sight' documentary exposes DDT’s toxic legacy
10/31/2025
Rosanna Xia's new documentary, Out of Plain Sight, explores the haunting legacy of toxic chemicals and their long-lasting implications to the greater ecosystem.
Duration:00:35:29
Millions can't pay for bills & the basics because of the shutdown
10/30/2025
Democrats are refusing to budge on the government shutdown until Republicans agree to extend tax credits for healthcare premiums. Meantime, millions are struggling.
Duration:00:52:13
Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education & the Future of Democracy
10/29/2025
Randi Weingarten's new book is a love letter to public school educators and an expose of the well-funded campaign behind attacks on teachers and the war on knowledge.
Duration:00:52:09
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
10/28/2025
Peter Beinart's new book "is about the story Jews tell ourselves to block out the screams. My hope is that we will one day see Gaza's obliteration as a turning point."
Duration:00:52:05
Amy Cordalis on her family's fight to save the Klamath River
10/27/2025
In 2024, the removal of four dams on the Klamath River marked a historic victory for an Indigenous-led movement, achieving the largest river restoration project in history.
Duration:00:51:41
Federal agents arrive. Lurie says Trump calls off plans for SF.
10/23/2025
Protests begin in the Bay Area as federal agents arrive at Coast Guard Island in Alameda. We'll open the lines and find out how communities are preparing.
Duration:00:52:02
The Authoritarian Playbook: Trump escalates violent ICE raids
10/22/2025
Over 59,000 people are in ICE detention. Sixty-five percent had no convictions and 93 percent had no violent convictions, according to data obtained by Cato.
Duration:00:52:03
Former No Child Left Behind advocate now fights to save public schools
10/21/2025
Former assistance secretary of education Diane Ravitch discusses her new book, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else.”
Duration:00:52:06
The growing environmental impact of AI data centers in California
10/20/2025
Surging electricity demand from data centers across the US is outpacing the supply of new clean energy sources, helping to sustain the fossil fuel industry.
Duration:00:24:51
The lasting effects of Trump's proposed budget cuts to NOAA
10/20/2025
Trump’s 2026 budget proposes a $4.5B cut, about 30 percent, targeting programs related to climate research, including the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
Duration:00:27:25
The brutality of ICE raids and detention from Chicago to California
10/17/2025
Trump is escalating immigration crackdowns. ICE raids are terrorizing communities in Chicago and California’s newest ICE facility is described as “hell on earth.”
Duration:00:57:59
Where do you stand on California's Prop 50 redistricting measure?
10/16/2025
On November 4, Californians will vote on Prop 50, a ballot measure Democrats say is necessary to counter gerrymandering in Texas and other Republican-led states.
Duration:00:52:26
The Authoritarian Playbook: How Justice Roberts is remaking US society
10/15/2025
Lisa Graves discusses her new book, "Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights."
Duration:00:53:10
GOP law will cause 22M families to lose some or all food benefits
10/14/2025
The GOP's sweeping spending and tax bill, which is now law, funds $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthy through the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in US history.
Duration:00:52:53
A discussion about Indian boarding schools on Indigenous People's Day
10/13/2025
Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970.
Duration:00:52:41
Legal experts say democracy is on the line with new Supreme Court term
10/10/2025
The Supreme Court’s new term includes cases on presidential power, voting rights, immigrants, campaign finance, and LGBTQ youth.
Duration:00:51:59
"Little Red Barns" investigates factory farms & rising fascism
10/9/2025
Will Potter's new book exposes the powerful forces working to obscure reality and suppress protest, and animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse.
Duration:00:52:02
The Authoritarian Playbook: Raoul Peck discusses Orwell 2+2=5
10/8/2025
Raoul Peck, the acclaimed Haitian filmmaker, discusses his new film, which examines how George Orwell "foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future."
Duration:00:52:05
The Trump administration's war on wind & renewable energy
10/6/2025
Trump has barred new solar and wind projects from federal land and waters, eliminated incentives for clean energy, and called for an entire industry to be stopped.
Duration:00:24:50