KQED's Forum

Soaring energy prices are the leading factor behind rising inflation across the United States, where consumer prices are up 3.7 percent over last year. In California, where energy costs have become an issue in the governor’s race, electricity prices are surging to a rate of about double the national average. We’ll look at what’s driving the rise here in California and across the U.S., and hear about how policy solutions could help bring prices under control. Guests: Mike O'Boyle, senior director of policy and strategy, Energy Innovation Meredith Fowlie, professor, UC Berkeley, faculty director, Energy Institute at Haas, co-director, Environment and Energy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh off its Broadway run, “Liberation,” which won this year’s Tony Award for best play andPulitzer Prize for drama, opens its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep. The play features amodern-day narrator trying to imagine her mother’s 1970s consciousness-raising group. Forplaywright Bess Wohl, her research involved asking a question to her mother: “Do you regrethaving me?” Wohl and director, Whitney White, join us to discuss the play and its depiction offeminism across generational lines. Guests: Bess Wohl, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright of “Liberation” Whitney White, Tony Award-nominated director of “Liberation” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ll speak with a CNN reporter, and look at why apparently dangerous rides weren’t shut down sooner.

We'll talk to experts about the challenges from the Trump administration and hear your concerns.

We talk with entertainment journalists about new tax incentives and the long-term future of Hollywood.