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Perspective and commentary from the award-winning team at KQED Arts & Culture.

View of the California State Capitol building, under construction, as viewed through a chainlink fence.

It's An Exercise: Civic Engagement Beyond Election Day

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A baby hippo bites the rear end of an adult hippo.

Moo Deng the Baby Pygmy Hippo Is No Longer a Source of Joy (Thanks, Humanity)

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Fremont, My Hometown

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Staff members of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children pose for a photo inside of the California State Capitol in Sacramento.

A Future Without Involuntary Servitude? In California, It's Long Overdue

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A replica of a very long silver fish with long red dorsal fin hangs from the ceiling inside a museum.

A ‘Doomsday Fish’ Washed Up in California and May God Have Mercy On Our Souls

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A young woman sits semi-reclined on a grey couch, looking downward, covered in white and maroon blankets.

The Migratory Melancholia of the ‘Dependent Spouse’

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A Black man in a red hoodie raps on the mic and holds one finger aloft while an arena ceiling bathed in golden light is in the background

The Culture

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In ‘Free To Be,’ A UCSF Doctor Dispels Myths About Trans Youth

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A large white man in a suit stands in a grand hallway laughing.

On Weinstein, Cosby, OJ Simpson and America’s Systemic Misogyny Problem

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Two baseball players slap hands in a dugout with orange Gatorade jugs in the background.

A Conspiracy Theory About the Oakland A’s Emerges — Here’s Why Fans Are Mad

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