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KQED 6526 - Why We Can’t Stop Reading Thrillers

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Episodes

Why We Can’t Stop Reading Thrillers

Where Do You Go to Find Your People?

Why The Onion Took Over Infowars

Federal Sex Education Cuts and Abstinence-Only Policies Spark Debate Over Teen Health and Fertility

What’s Going on at the Department of Homeland Security?

How Prepared Are We for Cyberattacks on Cities, Water Systems?

The California Cities Beefing With Fast Food Drive-Thrus

The Alarming Rise of Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults

Annie Jacobsen’s Doomsday Biological War Scenario

Chang-rae Lee's Novel, 'A Tender Age' Is A Personal Story

Julian Shapiro-Barnum on ‘How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up’

Oakland High Students on the Value of ‘Cross-Cultural Medicine’

Why Danny McBride Makes Fun of American Men

From Cash Checks to Shelter Mandates, The South Bay Is Betting Big on Homelessness Solutions

How Tariffs, Wildfire and Climate Change Threaten California Wine

Flipping the Switch: What Will it Take for California to Meet Its 100% Green Energy Goal?

‘Skill Nostalgia’ and the Appeal of Craftsmanship

Trump Administration Backs Off Regulating Environmental Toxins Despite MAHA Demands

Why Don’t Americans Trust the News?

Former Google Employee Recounts Path From Enchantment to Disillusionment in ‘Don’t Be Evil’

More California Kids Are Getting Hurt on E-Bikes, Study Finds

What’s on Your Summer Reading List?

Global Dissidents Give Lessons In Courage

‘American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez’ Documentary Gives A Chicano Icon His Due

The Challenges and Dangers Security Guards Face

‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons on Why San Jose is a Rich Setting for Horror

Inside America's Largest ICE Camp

Senator Alex Padilla on Confronting Presidential Corruption and ICE

Who Pays for San Francisco?

Have We Reached the End of Reading?

Investigation Shows SFPD Closes Rape Cases at Half the National Rate

Inside Silicon Valley's Race to Build a Home Robot

A Woman Finds Healing and Beauty by Walking Every Street in Santa Cruz County

Why Everyone Should Take a Sabbatical

Historian Stephanie Coontz on the Myth of Traditional Marriage

How CDC Cuts Have Slowed the Cyclospora Response

With FEMA Cuts, Is There a New Disaster Relief Economy?

Iran Conflict Raises Prospect of Forever War

How the U.S. Auto Industry Is Losing the EV Race

Novelist Karen Tei Yamashita on the Relevance of Japanese Internment Today

Drones, Plate Readers, and AI Facial Recognition: The Surveillance Technology Watching the Bay Area

The Battle for the Future of Burning Man

A Historian Grapples with ‘How We Disappear’ After We Die

Should the UCs Reinstate the SAT?

Peptides: Miracle Molecules or Marketing Hype?

Why California Wants to Block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

What Does the Federal Housing Bill Mean for the Bay Area?

The Fallout From The Supreme Court’s TPS Ruling

California Has Extreme Income Inequality. Why Do We Treat It As Normal?

John Green and Daniel Alarcón Break Down the 2026 World Cup