Cascade PBS Ideas Festival

Superintendent Denise Juneau discusses her plans to keep students and teachers healthy while reopening, and reflects on how the district could have better responded to the pandemic.

Evan Osnos, presidential biographer and staff writer at The New Yorker, tells us what he sees in Biden’s early actions.

Columnist Katie Wilson tells us how the law created in the Gilded Age will help shape the next chapter of the Digital Age.

Daudi Abe talks about four decades of hip-hop in the isolated, disrespected, idiosyncratic Northwest. 

Reporter Lilly Fowler discusses what years of reporting on Mergensana Amar tell us about U.S. immigration policy.

Author Ruchika Tulshyan talks about the vice president-elect as change agent and role model.

Reporter Melissa Santos discusses the politics and path of the only Republican elected to statewide office in one of the nation’s bluest regions.

UW researcher Jevin West tells us how the attempts to delegitimize the presidential election could be warping the electorate.

Talk radio host Michael Medved and political science professor Christopher Parker consider the future of the parties and our nation.

Journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn revisit America's struggling blue collar communities on the eve of the election.

Director Jeff Orlowski discusses the problem with social media and how climate change helped him understand it.