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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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New York Times San Francisco Bureau Chief Thomas Fuller spent three months reporting on the High Street homelessness encampment in Oakland. What he found…
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How do we justify keeping so many nuclear weapons – and continually threatening to use them?The doctrine of mutually assured destruction is supposed to…
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Your CallOn this edition of Your Call, Akemi Johnson will discuss her new book Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the US Military Bases in…
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Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.
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Do drones herald a more sanitized and efficient form of war, or do they represent the dystopian reign of uncaring technologies? The Unmanned Aerial…
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When we have conversations about war and refuge, we sometimes forget our children are listening. So how do you talk to kids about things like the war in…
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When Jamal left his home in Aleppo in 2010 for a year-long Fulbright scholarship in the United States, he assumed he was coming back. He had no idea the…
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What makes us sometimes view the other as less than fully human?People tend to treat other people who differ from them, even in seemingly small and…
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A debate about whether Nolan’s Dunkirk whitewashes history is perfectly legitimate but seventy years after India’s Independence isn’t it also time that…
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Are terrorists just ordinary people driven to commit extraordinary acts?Since George W. Bush first declared a "war on terror," the US has been engaged in…