KQED's Perspectives

Picture a normal 11-year-old girl. It's probably not Elliot Singer.

Picture a normal 11-year-old girl. It's probably not Elliot Singer.

Don McCullough's tech company rolls out a new product, and all everyone wants to do is touch it.

Les Bloch isn't a smiley face kind of guy. So he decided to give it a try. My, how things changed.

Francie Low thinks Pope Francis could bring some skills to Congress it desperately needs.

High schooler Joe Vargas admits he's mean and manipulative. But don't judge him before you know his story.

Katy Butler's mother chose her own way to die, not her doctor's.

Mike Newland notices something about his daughters' dolls — they can't move.

Meg Waite Clayton faces the facts of her 54-year-old face, without makeup, unadorned.

Meg Waite Clayton faces the facts of her 54-year-old face, without makeup, unadorned.

Michael Ellis looks at how the fabulous fur of the beaver shaped the history of California and the West.

Elie Wiesel writes a letter to her 10th grade students and Annie Hatch's faith in teaching is restored.

On a bending stretch of East Bay freeway Tamie Marie Fields experiences the chasm between what we've got and what it took to get it.

Susan Eva Porter believes a new anti-bullying law goes too far and in the wrong direction.

Sara Campos applauds a new state law extending workplace rights to domestic workers.