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According to the OECD, the US generates more plastic waste than any other country in the world, but only about 6 percent of plastic is recycled.

We’re all regularly exposed to low doses of cancer-causing compounds in food and water, personal care products, and air pollution. Can we stop cancer before it begins?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the future of San Francisco with journalists from the city.

San Francisco has received endless national media coverage claiming crime is out of control and liberal policies are to blame.

A federal judge recently banned the city from clearing homeless encampments without offering viable housing opportunities. This week, Governor Newsom said he will intervene to allow the city to continue sweeps, remarking to Politico that he hopes the case makes it to the Supreme Court.

A lawsuit last year by the Coalition on Homelessness claims the city routinely dismantles encampments when there is no available shelter space, confiscating and destroying the possessions of homeless people.

What are real solutions to the city's homelessness, addiction, and mental health crises?

On this edition of Your Call, Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky will discuss Tyranny of the Minority, a book he wrote with Professor Daniel Ziblatt.

They write: “the conditions that gave rise to the Trump presidency—a radicalized party empowered by a pre-democratic constitution—remain in place. We stand at a crossroads: either America will be a multiracial democracy or it will not be a democracy at all. As the civil rights generation passes into history, the work of building a truly multiracial democracy falls upon us. Future generations will hold us to account.”

Scientists predict that by 2100 Joshua Tree National Park will lose almost all of its Joshua tree habitat due to climate change.

Fossil Free Media’s Stop The Oil Profiteering campaign has launched a series of billboards calling out Big Oil for its role in fueling the climate crisis.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the threat of violence by extremist rightwing groups in the US.

Four leaders of the white nationalist group Proud Boys have now been convicted for their role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and sentenced to between 15 and 22 years in prison.

Will long prison sentences deter violence by white nationalist, neo-Nazi and anti-government extremist groups?

Corporations in the US are spending millions of dollars on anti-union consultants to stop workers from unionizing, according to a new HuffPost investigation.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss how we should respond to the urgency of this moment.

Every day, Republicans in congress and on the campaign trail are proposing more extreme policies on the climate crisis, abortion, guns, LGBTQ issues, and more. How did we get here?

For those of us who want to stay engaged, how do we deal with the barrage of bad news on a daily basis?

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the Biden administration’s announcement of the first ten prescription drugs, including insulin, that will be subject to price negotiations with Medicare, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

The White House projects that the negotiations could save older Americans around $100 billion over the next decade, and reducing the cost of these drugs will help more than 9 million Americans. Senior citizens have paid $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs for these 10 medications in the last year.

Last year, top insurance company revenues reached $1.25 trillion, with profits reaching $69.3 billion in total, according to former Cigna executive Wendell Potter, who now advocates for healthcare reform.

What will it take to counter the powerful influence of the pharmaceutical industry and bring down costs?