Veterans and their allies lead an American revival.
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The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's largest public affairs forum. The nonpartisan and nonprofit Club produces and distributes programs featuring diverse viewpoints from thought leaders on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast — the oldest in the U.S., since 1924 — is carried on hundreds of stations. Our website features audio and video of our programs. This podcast feed is usually updated multiple times each week.
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Actor Michelle Monaghan talks about Fort Bliss, a drama about a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggling to rebuild her relationship with her young son after an extended tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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Welcome to Topless Government. This show is a cross between Schoolhouse Rock and civics for the masses. I want to make this show relatable and fun for everyone who would like to know how YOUR government works. Originally, I was working on launching the show sometime in July, however, on Friday when the news broke that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I decided now I should start my show and begin conveying my knowledge of government and politics so others can be better informed. Rem ...
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Buckle Up for some bull s**t. Hello and welcome to the gayest hour of your week! We see you, sitting there wondering why two flawless narcissists think they should be talking into a microphone at you every week? First of all, thank you! And we are SO glad you asked! We met our Junior year of High School and have been sistas ever since. The only thing we care about more than ourselves is each other and BEYONCÉ. Every week hear us talk about a lot of wild s**t we know nothing about all in a ha ...
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Growing up in the punk/hardcore scene and with a background in proactive police work, gang suppression, homicide investigations, informant development, and training, Brian Sanders has a natural knack for conversation. With guests ranging from musicians, authors, free-thinking first responders, entrepreneurs, reformed extremists, undercover detectives, gang members, drug dealers, and subject matter experts in various fields, Brian Sanders delivers conversations you never knew you wanted to hear.
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Listen up! We're done with the gender pay gap. We're done with ignorance about the number of women retiring into poverty and homelessness. We don't need more thoughts and prayers to solve gender-based violence. We need action now. And we're taking it. Feminist Money is a groundbreaking podcast that confronts the intersection of finance and feminism head on. Through analysis of the financial landscape and community driven conversations, this podcast sparks vital conversations and fosters coll ...
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I Was A Communist For The FBI was a show that came from the anti-Communist hysteria at a peak in the 1950s, and by the end of 1952 I Was a Communist was scheduled on more than 600 stations. The show was based on the book by Matt Cvetic and purportedly told of his adventures as an undercover operative who joined the Communist Party to spy from within for the FBI. Many of the stories contained double-edged conflicts: Cvetic constantly looked for information, walking a tightrope among suspiciou ...
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The Connection Between Autoimmunity and Trauma
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Approximately one in three Americans has autoimmunity, according to our speaker, Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried, M.D. Conventional medicine falls short when it comes to both diagnosing and treating autoimmune conditions. In The Autoimmune Cure, by Dr. Gottfried, there is hope for the tens of millions of people who suffer from autoimmune disease. Dr. Gottf…
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Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine
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What are the deep connections between music and healing? Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. Join us as neuroscient…
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CLIMATE ONE: Turning Election Anxiety Into Action
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The U.S. is gearing up for a presidential election between a climate advocate and a climate denier. Scientists have given humanity a deadline to drastically reduce the use of fossil fuels if we want a habitable Earth. While there has been some progress, it’s not anywhere nearly enough, and the consequences of our failure to address our fossil fuel …
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Dan Morain: Making History with Kamala Harris
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Kamala Harris is going toe-to-toe with Donald Trump in a high-stakes race for the presidency. Though she has served as vice president for four years, many Americans don’t know a lot about her. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we know her from her days as San Francisco district attorney and then California attorney general and senator. But perhap…
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People Power & Service Transforming the City: What's Good SF! Summer Series
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Join us for our second installment of a new series of lively discussion on the future of San Francisco. Featuring leaders in community, service and volunteerism. "People Power & Service" will explore the opportunities for the people of San Francisco to play an active role in the next chapter of our city and the impact that neighbors leading local c…
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#47 NHL goes punk, Vans Warp Tour stories, THE BRIGGS, THE DEFIANT, perspectives from the pit with singer/songwriter, guitarist: JOEY BRIGGS!
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thedisruptors.bc.ski@gmail.com Email me with any suggestions for future guests, topics you'd like me to cover, and any feedback about the show.
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Mary Trump: Family Ties and Lies
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Everyone knows her name. Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump—the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump—and Linda Clapp—a flight attendant from a working-class family—Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy’s humiliation …
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H.R. McMaster: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House
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For 13 turbulent and consequential months, H.R. McMaster served as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. Join us as McMaster shares his stories of helping an unpredictable president drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a c…
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CLIMATE ONE: Cheaper, Faster, Better: Tom Steyer on Winning the Climate War
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Tom Steyer rose to public prominence as the billionaire investor and climate organizer who ran for president in the 2020 election on a climate-first platform. While he didn’t secure the Democratic nomination, his dedication to supporting and advancing climate solutions has remained steadfast. In his new book, “Cheaper, Better, Faster: How We’ll Win…
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CLIMATE ONE: Military Power: Balancing Security and Climate Threats
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The U.S. military is one of the world’s largest consumers of fossil fuels. And its carbon pollution is equally huge. At the same time, climate disruption is already amplifying crises and conflicts around the world — making climate change, in the words of one military expert, “a threat multiplier.” The Department of Defense has been making moves to …
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Erwin Chemerinsky: No Democracy Lasts Forever
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Has the U.S. Constitution become a threat to American democracy? Does it need to be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided? Join us as Erwin Chemerinsky returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to share his deeply troubled thoughts of the Constitution’s inherent flaws. The dean of the UC Berkeley law school came to the sob…
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America hates the police? Was Obama a "white president?" Implicit bias training, dispatchers disrespect, and destroying the "Us vs Them" mentality: DREW BREASY!
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Violence against officers is on the rise. The media keeps stoking the flames of racism, pushing drama like a bunch of school yard instigators, and DREW BREASY's not going to take it anymore. This has been a long time in the making. Drew talks about the trauma dispatchers experience, the war on cops, the truth about racism, implicit bias, the power …
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Melissa Jacoby with Sen. Elizabeth Warren: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
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Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many debts—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. Legal scholar Melissa B. Jacoby argues that bankruptcy h…
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Anne Applebaum: Autocracy, Inc.
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People think they know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top; he controls the police; the police threaten the people with violence; there are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by o…
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CLIMATE ONE: What’s a Climate-Conscious Republican to Do?
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The leaders at the top of the Republican Party want the U.S. to double down on carbon-intensive oil and gas — and avoid reckoning with the damage they cause. As temperatures continue to rise, a majority of young Republican voters say clinging to that stance could spell trouble for the sustainability of the GOP. And yet, conservatives aren’t a monol…
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Alzheimer's, ALS, "Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's—There's Hope
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Dr. Paul Alan Cox is an American ethnobotanist whose scientific research focuses on discovering new medicines by studying patterns of wellness and illness among Indigenous peoples. Chosen by Time magazine as one of 11 Heroes of Medicine, Dr. Cox leads a remarkable team of world-class scientists. Their objective is singular: to improve patient outco…
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Mike Madrid: The Latino Century
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In 2020, Latinos became the second largest ethnic voting group in the United States. They make up the largest plurality of residents in the most populous states in the union, as well as the fastest-growing segment of the most important swing states in the U.S. Electoral College. Fitting neither the stereotype of the aggrieved minority voter nor the…
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With President Biden Out of the Race . . . What to Expect at the DNC
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President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on July 21, and in the few weeks since, Vice President Kamala Harris has garnered enough delegates to become the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. During the Democratic National Convention in a couple of weeks, the party will feature its new challenger to Donald Trump. For months…
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