📻 KQED's daily news call-in program, 9-11 AM on 88.5FM.
🎙️ Co-hosted by Alexis Madrigal (9-10 AM hour) and Mina Kim (10-11 AM hour).
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📍 San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to former Obama speechwriter and national security adviser @rhodesben.bsky.social about his new book, "All We Say," which looks at how 15 seminal American speeches shaped and reflected visions of race, democracy, belonging and power.
❓What are your Qs for Rhodes?
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We're talking to @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social, @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and @jilltauber.bsky.social about the Trump administration's larger strategy to boost the coal industry and community opposition to the $75 million dollar Oakland coal terminal project.
❓What are your Qs?
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We're talking to Zinzi Clemmons, director of Creative Writing at UC Davis and author of new book 'Freedom,' about what it means to consider freedom today for Black Americans, women and oppressed people around the world.
❓How do you define freedom? What does it mean to you?
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We're speaking with KQED's Marisa Lagos, Guy Marzorati and @sydneyfjohnson.bsky.social to recap California's gubernatorial and Congressional primaries, and what the results mean going into November’s general election.
❓How are you feeling about the primary results thus far?
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We talk to Ben Rhodes about his new book about seminal American speeches and what they can tell us about American identity today.
Airdate: Monday, June 8 at 9 AM In her new essay collection, “Freedom,” novelist and UC Davis creative writing director Zinzi Clemmons examines what freedom means in “a world buckling from the…
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We’ll talk about the Trump administration’s larger strategy to boost the coal industry, community opposition to the Oakland coal terminal, and what a coal terminal means for the environment and…
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We're talking to Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer about his new novel, 'Villa Coco.'
❓What are your questions for Andrew Sean Greer?
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We're talking to @newyorker.com's Jay Caspian Kang about whether the four-year college can survive A.I.
❓Do you work/teach at a college or university? Are you saving up to put a child through college? How do you think college should change in the AI age?
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We're talking to @weissmann.substack.com about his new book 'Liar's Kingdom,' and about his case for political reform and how we can make our democratic institutions more resilient.
❓What do you want to happen after Trump’s presidency?
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We're talking to Paula Span, author of @nytimes.com's and @kffhealthnews.org's The New Old Age column, and @aadmorg.bsky.social's Dr. Lonny Shavelson about California's End of Life Option Act and the shifting national support for medical aid-in-dying policies.
❓What are your Qs?
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We're talking to @mcsweeneys.net and 826 Valencia founder Dave Eggers about what it means to be an artist, in fiction and in practice, here in the Bay Area. His new novel, which draws inspiration from his own art school experience, is “Contrapposto.”
❓What are your Qs for Eggers?
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We're talking to Oakland’s city auditor, a 911 dispatcher and investigative journalist @byardduncan.bsky.social about why, despite a decade of audits and grand jury reports, Oakland’s emergency response system still lags behind national and state standards.
❓What are your Qs?
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We talk to Andrew Sean Greer, who lives half the year in San Francisco and the other half in Italy, about his new novel.
We talk about why, despite a decade of audits and grand jury reports, Oakland’s emergency response system still lags behind national and state standards.
