Commonwealth Club World Affairs

10/20/2026

Tonight at Commonwealth Club World Affairs in San Francisco:
• 5:30 pm / Katie Sanders: Ortiz’s War
• 6 pm / Rev. Richard Cizik’s Route from the Altar to K Street to Lyft Driver
• 8 pm / The Gr8T Debate: The Race for San Francisco’s District 8 (must pre-register)

Details & tickets: commonwealthclub.org/events

10/19/2026

Election jitters? Hopes? Fears? Dread? And then what happens AFTER the election?
Join us November 4, for a post-election politics roundtable to discuss what happened, why it happened, and what's next.

Details & tickets: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-11-04/day-after-election-2026-week-week-political-roundtable-special

10/19/2026

Tonight at Commonwealth Club World Affairs in San Francisco:
• 6 PM PDT / Kevin Roose: Inside the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
• 6:30 PM PDT / How America Looks from Everywhere Else (Sold Out)

Details & tickets: commonwealthclub.org/events

10/19/2026

SOLD OUT: Our program tonight, "How America Looks from Everywhere Else," is sold out. Thanks to everyone who reserved their tickets!

See other upcoming events and get your tickets before they sell out: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events

10/15/2026

Tonight in Marin!
• 7 p.m. / Dr. Peter Bartu on "Middle East Peace: Achieving a Breakthrough"

Details & tickets: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-10-15/middle-east-peace-achieving-breakthrough

Marin Chapter, World Affairs Council

10/15/2026

JUST ADDED! Oct 20, hear for yourself what the supervisor candidates for SF's District 8 pledge to do if elected. Candidates Darshini Patel, Gary Mccoy & Michael Nguyen will debate; our moderators will be 2 of the top political journalists in the state, KQED News' Marisa Lagos & Scott Shafer

Must pre-register; no tickets at the door. Details & tickets: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-10-20/gr8t-debate-race-san-franciscos-district-8

Presented with San Francisco Democratic Party
Intro by Michelle Meow
Remarks by Nancy Tung

10/14/2026

Today at Commonwealth Club World Affairs:
• 12 PM PDT online-only / Dana Bash: The Elections That Changed the World
• 5:30 PM PDT / Loubna Mrie: Defiance, a Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria
• 6 PM PDT / PG&E Chief Patti Poppe on Affordability, Outages and Public Outrage

Details & tickets: commonwealthclub.org/events

10/08/2026

Tonight at Commonwealth Club World Affairs in San Francisco:
• 6 PM PDT / Proposition Mania: Making Sense of Those Confusing Ballots
With Juliet Williams & Neil Chase of CalMatters.org
Details & tickets: https://commonwealthclub.org/events

10/07/2026

What? A plague threat in Russia? Get an in-depth look at the worst that could happen, and who's working hard to make sure that doesn't happen, in this recent program featuring Annie Jacobsen with Quentin Hardy.

Watch:

A bio attack. A lab accident. A global pandemic. The collapse of hu...

10/06/2026

Tonight at Commonwealth Club World Affairs in San Francisco:
• 5:30 PM PDT / Miriam Pawel: The Making and Remaking of the University of California
• 6 PM PDT / After H.R. 1: Medicaid Cuts and the Future of Health-Care Access in San Francisco
With: Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Dr. Susan Ehrlich &
Kim Meredith

Details & tickets: commonwealthclub.org/events