The pandemic-era policy nearly halted the processing of asylum applications. As Title 42 was lifted on Thursday, officials braced for an influx of migrants. But the reality was relatively calm.

Finance ministers and central bank chiefs ended talks in Japan with a joint statement pledging to bring inflation under control while aiding those suffering the most from surging prices.

Leaders of the Export-Import Bank of the United States voted Thursday to help fund the expansion of an oil refinery in Indonesia.

WNYC's Culture and Arts Editor Steve Smith joins us to talk about arts events coming up in New York City.

Each weekday, we’ll bring you three timely updates of top stories, breaking news and in-depth coverage, plus special investigations and feature-length reports.

Before she was the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo’s journey as an artist began at a federal Indian boarding school. She reveals an unexpected perspective about her experience.

For the first time ever, viewers in the U.S. can vote for their favorite act in the lavish international spectacle that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Our critic shares his top 10 songs.

We reflect on the pop culture moments that have defined the Covid era. 

TJ the muppet joined actor Kal Penn and Korean American muppet Ji-Young this week to discuss the word of the day: confidence. He debuts during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

The two journalists were foreign correspondents in Moscow. Gershkovich is now being held in a Russian prison, accused by the regime of espionage.

This isn't just a case about the First Amendment.

The unleashing of powerful, generative AI on the public is raising concerns that as the technology becomes more prevalent, it will become easier to claim that anything is fake.

This week, things get weird in songs by The God In Hackney and Goldfeather, and a half century of dance moves from Alex Anwandter and Monsieur Perine. Plus, a Doc Watson tribute album.  

The blues singer and guitarist Ruthie Foster has worked with the Allman Brothers, Blind Boys of Alabama, and pedal steel master Robert Randolph. She plays her feel-good blues in-studio.

Composer and songwriter Yasmin Williams is a fingerstyle lap-tapping guitar player who plays/taps from above. Hear her new score to Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid', from Brookfield Place.

Pearla, the Brooklyn-based artist Nicole Rodriguez, makes off-kilter folk-pop that mixes reality and the surreal. She and her band play weird and wonderful new songs in-studio.

Hakim’s songs can sound a little like Nick Drake fronting a psychedelic soul band from the early 70s. Nick Hakim and his band perform songs from his latest, Cometa, in-studio. 

As part of The Greene Space’s Wanderlust Wednesdays series, Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey present their performance, The Working Group. The Working Group is a meeting of an autofictional men’s group engaged in tackling the “crisis of masculinity,” with the help of a live audience. The members engage in a rigorous, detailed analysis of their behavior. Accountability is king. Self-surveillance is king. Reflection and self-critique are king. Audience participation is encouraged.

Our May selection is Lone Women by Victor LaValle.

Join science journalist Rachel E. Gross and artist Sophia Wallace, two of the foremost thinkers when it comes to the clitoris and female sexuality, for a wild ride into your own body and intimate self-knowledge. In this variety show, we’ll gently reacquaint you with the clitoris and vulva through an interactive craft activity, clit jeopardy (with edible prizes!), and an onstage debate where we’ll require your help to settle a heated question: who has done more for the clitoris, art or science?

Is it the world of culture, where artists like Sophia have worked to elevate the clitoris as an icon of empowered sexuality and wholeness? Or is it the realm of science, where researchers like the ones Rachel reports on have been filling in medicine’s hazy map of the clitoris, nerve fiber by painstaking nerve fiber? Wallace and Gross will embody the muses of Art and Science, respectively, to finally set the record straight.

Have a clitoris? Know someone who does? Care about your own pleasure, reproductive rights, sexual health, or the right to bodily autonomy? Then this show is for you!

Join drag performance artist and violinist Thorgy Thor for a celebration as we kick-off Pride Month!