For the past decade, San Francisco has worked hard to turn its downtown into a vibrant hub, providing a model that other cities in the United States looked to emulate.
In the wake of the pandemic, however, many buildings and offices in the center of the city have remained empty.
What went wrong?
Guest: Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at The New Yor ... Show More
Yesterday
Chosen by War: The Rise of Iran’s New Supreme Leader
At the heart of the Iranian regime’s defiant stance toward the United States and Israel in the war is Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader and a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime’s longtime ruler. Farnaz Fassihi, who covers Iran for The New York Times, discusses the e ... Show More
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Mar 16
A War Within the War: Israel’s Bombardment of Lebanon
With the world’s attention on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, a second front in the conflict has opened in Lebanon. Israel has pummeled an area in the southern outskirts of Beirut where Hezbollah holds sway, as well as southern Lebanon, with airstrikes, displacing almost one mill ... Show More
25m 58s
Sep 2021
San Francisco and the American nightmare
<p>Since the internet boom in the mid-90s, San Francisco has become a tech superpower, overtaking Silicon Valley. The city has more billionaires per square mile than anywhere in the US, but it also has more homeless people. Danny Fortson meets the residents of its tent citie ... Show More
32m 37s