Cascade PBS Ideas Festival
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Cascade PBS Ideas Festival
Watch some of your favorite podcasts tackle meaningful topics at our annual Ideas Festival—recorded live and unfiltered.
Democracy in Color: The Most Dangerous Idea
Radio Atlantic: She's Seen It All Now
Fresh Air: America's Oldest Struggle
Reclaiming: Surviving the Story
The Political Scene: Everything Funny Hurts a Bit
The Newsfeed: Seattle’s Supersized Sports Dreams
Radiolab: Science has an Identity Crisis
First America: Granted, Denied, Weaponized
Open to Debate: World on the Brink?
The Journal: Afraid of America
Criminal: Accused, Acquitted, Ascendant
Radiolab: Brainwashing History
The Gist: Biden’s Big Sin
One Thing: MAGA Diplomacy
Open to Debate: 1st Amendment and Trump 2.0
On The Media: Online Decline
Radio Atlantic: AI Elections 1.0
Revisionist History: Unlocked and Unloaded
Post Reports: Identity Crisis
Left, Right & Center: Serious About Satire
Critics at Large: Crazy for Crime
Hear Me Out: Living History
The Journal: Economy Anxiety and the Election
Text Me Back!: Court Roast
Tug of War: Covering the Crisis in the Middle East
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Tacoma Mayor on the City’s $40 million general fund shortfall
July 13, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
July 13, 2026
Mayor Anders Ibsen lays out his vision for Tacoma
July 10, 2026
Eva Moskowitz
Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism with Rice
July 10, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 7/10/26
How climate change harms human health — and what can be done
How AI Chatbots Could Fuel Violence Against Women
As teens scroll, WA lawmakers weigh school phone restrictions
July 9, 2026
July 9, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
Teen Gambling on the Rise in Washington
July 8, 2026
July 8, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
LGBTQ+ teens report less hope, more bullying in WA survey
July 7, 2026
Breaking the Deadlock: How to Fix an Election
Concrete Canyons: Rewilding the City
America 250 Compilation
July 7, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
A look at dangerous weight control behaviors in WA youth
July 6, 2026
July 6, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
Key takeaways from the Washington Healthy Youth Survey
Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song
Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 7/3/26
Jon Meacham
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
America’s global legacy at 250
July 3, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
The unsung heroes of American innovation and ingenuity
July 3, 2026
The Newsfeed guests explain what patriotism means to them
July 2, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
July 2, 2026
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on patriotism at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival
July 1, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
July 1, 2026
In Downtown Seattle we asked: what does patriotism mean to you?
Defenders of Democracy: The Thin Blue Line
Stacey Abrams
Riders on the Storm: A Glass Half Full
June 30, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
June 30, 2026
The Crown Prince & the President
We asked Mayor Katie Wilson: what does patriotism mean to you?
June 29, 2026
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