KUOW-FM: Speakers Forum : NPR

Bill Gates is bullish on climate change mitigation, but warns ‘We don’t have time to waste’

How to unmake a man-made global disaster

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Becoming Rebecca Solnit: a room and a life of her own

‘I was trying not to be the subject of someone else’s poetry and not to get killed.’

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Lawrence Wright looks for America through the lens of Covid-19

How the acclaimed writer and investigative journalist saw it coming

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Gender inequality, female leadership, and the ‘glass cliff’ problem

On suffering and surviving the slings and arrows of a woman leader’s fortune

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Essays on life, lineage, and the inheritance of whiteness

White women explore epistemic injustice and healing wisdom

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White advantage. Racialized trauma. Paths forward

‘America doesn’t have a race problem. It has a racism problem.’

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White advantage. Racialized trauma. Paths forward

‘America doesn’t have a race problem. It has a racism problem.’

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Re: Building Democracy explores ways to mend our political, social, and cultural divides

‘Class blindness is the tendency for people with social class privilege to be unaware or blind to...

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Lyric World: You Don’t Have to Got to Mars for Love

Poet Yona Harvey on arrivals, departures, and renewals

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Re:Building Democracy explores the state of civic discourse, east of the mountains

‘I think both of us realize that you don’t get anywhere by staying in your corners and being...

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Scott Turow reflects on his day jobs, practicing law and writing best-selling fiction

‘Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of...

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We who believe in freedom: Liberty’s white roots and the racial history of an idea

White Freedom: ‘The belief (and practice) that freedom is central to white racial identity, and...

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Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility

An exploration of unsettling shifts and unexpected hope in words and song

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Race, reckoning, and redemption. Michael Eric Dyson’s epistles to White America

Have we reached a turning point on race?

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How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year

Reflections on 2020 help point to bridges forward

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2020 Hugo House Fellows share works of ‘Luminosity’ for the new year

Poets and essayists conjure post-holiday light

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Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses ‘that big grey blob’ between your ears

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could better understand how the human brain works, then...

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Gather ‘round for a roguish, timeless Christmas tale

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas

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Jill Lepore on the ethically challenged birth of the computer age

'These men are going out to build a machine to understand how humans think and feel and would...

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Where a booming oil market meets wind and solar alternatives, geopolitics happens

‘Peak oil, at this point, it looks like it’s around 2030, which used to sound far away, but it...

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