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Yesterday would have been Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 105th birthday. The Bay Area literary icon died in 2021. He is most associated with books and poetry — and rightly so. But before he published Howl, before he opened City Lights and before the Beats he was part of the World War Two effort.
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Can mere words create a toxic climate in which violence is condoned and encouraged?Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined…
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What moral questions do weapons of mass destruction raise that ordinary weapons don't?The United States has threatened military action against states…
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Your CallOn the October 5th edition of Your Call, we’ll speak with investigative journalist Eric Schlosser and filmmaker Robert Kenner about their new documentary…
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Author Mary Roach is prolific. Since 2003, she’s written best-selling books about cadavers, sex, ghosts, the digestive tract, and space toilets. Her…
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Your CallOn April 13th edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami about their new book Burning Country: Syrians in…
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Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.But Monica Liu is a survivor…
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In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China. Recently some of the Deoli internees returned to India. They…
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What is it like to be a student who has fought in a war? In this special production from the Stanford Storytelling Project, six students and alumni, all…
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Your CallOn the October 2nd edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, the war in Syria dominated discussions at the UN General Assembly…
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We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.
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Your CallOn the June 5th edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss coverage of "the USA Freedom Act" limiting the NSA's…