A panel of scholars weighed in on the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A "Matrix on Point" panel discussion focused on the rise of right-wing autocrats around the world.

Recorded on November 12, 2020, this panel was presented by the Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research.

A Matrix "Authors Meet Critics" panel asked, how can sites of waste disposal be marked to prevent contamination in the future?

On October 19, a group of distinguished panelists discussed how the pandemic is transforming the 2020 elections.

Robert D. Putnam, Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, on his book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.

Recorded on October 7, 2020, this video features Dr. Brandi Thompson Summers, Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at UC Berkeley, discussing her book Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City, with Nikki Jones, Professor of African American Studies.

An "Authors Meet Critics" panel on "Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality," by Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker

A Matrix Distinguished Lecture by Katharina Pistor provided an overview of her book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality.

On September 21, 2020, a panel of researchers, advocates, and medical practitioners joined a "Matrix on Point" discussion focused on homelessness and the San Francisco Bay Area’s housing crisis.