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KQED 6594 - How Social Media is Shaping How We Experience Our Lives IRL

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 forum@kqed.org, tweet, or post on Facebook.

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How Social Media is Shaping How We Experience Our Lives IRL

How Data Center Backlash is Reshaping Politics

Xavier Becerra Keeps Low Profile – and Solid Lead – in Race for Governor

Golden State Valkyries Push into the Playoffs, Ready to ‘Put Their V’s Up’

How High School Became an Academic Pressure Cooker

Bay Area Legends: W. Kamau Bell Asks ‘Who’s With Me?

Whistleblower Frances Haugen on Facebook's 'Social Reckoning'

Record-Setting Diesel Prices Put Pressure On Bay Area Businesses and Consumers

How Biden's Gaza Policy Reverberates Today

Singer and Local Influencer Tasha Malan Performs Live in Studio

Trump’s Monuments to Himself

Regional Ballot Measure is a $14 Billion Bet on Bay Area Transit

The Speaker: How Nancy Pelosi Changed the Face of Power

Bay Area's Largest 200 Public Companies Reflect the Region's Changing Economy

Ke Huy Quan’s Hollywood Comeback

Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on How to Resist ‘End Times Fascism’

The Whistleblowers Who Exposed a ‘No-Kill’ Shelter

A Changing Mission District and Intergenerational Friendship Center Tomas Moniz’s Novel ‘The King of Aloe Vera’

What the Lindsay Clancy Case Teaches Us About Postpartum Psychosis

“The Oldest Person In the World” Documentary Explores What It Means to Live and Age

'Changing Gender' in a Time of Backlash

Most Humans Can See 10 Million Colors. Cal Scientists Found One More.

How to Parse Escalating Warnings About AI

Teen Overdose Confirms Arrival of Deadly Opioid in San Francisco

Have You Navigated a ‘Quiet Divorce?’

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on Why Feeling is the Key to Consciousness

Orville Schell’s 30-Year Secret: Exposing China’s Secret Prisons

Economists Make the Case For and Against California’s Billionaire Tax

Legendary Musician Joan Baez Joins Us in Studio

25 Years Later, 9/11 is Shifting From a Memory Into a History Lesson

After Fleeing Taliban, Four Women Rebuild in the U.S.

Claudia Rankine on the Friendships That Unsettle and Sustain Us

What ‘Never Trumper’ Sarah Longwell Learned From Voters

SF Renters Face Buyout Offers and Evictions as AI Boom Sends Prices Soaring

Why Schools are Changing Their Tune on Screens

Trump Administration Scrambles to Expand Immigration Detention Centers

Forum From The Archives: Inside Silicon Valley's Race to Build a Home Robot

Forum From the Archives: Are We in a New Gold Rush?

Forum From The Archives: M. Gessen Reckons with Familial Crime and Punishment

Concerts, Art, and Festivals Not to Miss in the Bay This Fall

Can Anyone Solve America’s $40 Trillion Debt Problem?

In Daniel Mason’s Comic Novel ‘Country People,’ California Collides with New England

Rozina Ali Traces Islamophobia’s Long Shadow

Can the Trump Administration Allow Private Development in Yosemite?

Who Should Pay When Utilities Companies Start a Fire?

What Does Bay Area Democratic Socialism Look Like?

What’s Driving the Anti-Sunscreen Movement?

The Long Reach of the “Marinaissance”

The Iran War at Six Months: Has the U.S. Already Lost?

What Are the Objects That Define the Bay Area?