Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them ...

Russia ratcheted up air attacks by drones and missiles on Ukraine this week. The increase comes as President Trump has ...

Researchers at Princeton University say some instances corresponded with national attacks on DEI initiatives as well as on ...

The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father and white mother in an era when "mixed-race" wasn't a thing. "Just merely existing as a family was a ...

The English band's sophomore album, moisturizer, is out today. Co-founder Rhian Teasdale joins World Cafe to talk about it.

Stewart Brand inspired a generation of hippies and coders, including Steve Jobs. With his finger on the pulse, Brand helped build the future we live in.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil was early to forecast AI would turbocharge human potential. At 77, he shares lessons from 60 years of working on AI, and what to expect in the coming decade.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is back with Celia Gregory of Nashville public radio station WNXP to talk through this week's best new music.

July 11, 2025 • Two managers at a San Diego construction project were trying to boost the morale of workers in the middle of the COVID pandemic. In this StoryCorps, hear how some monarch butterflies ...

The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

The Supreme Court gave President Trump the green light to move forward with plans to lay off thousands of federal workers. We discuss the potential impacts of the ruling, plus new tariffs Trump ...