NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with award-winning songwriter Diane Warren about the release of her debut studio album, The Cave Sessions, Vol. 1.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a Republican and member of the Air National Guard, about the harm done by suicide bombers and gunmen outside the Kabul airport.

Actor Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, are big fans of Ross. But they found it was difficult to land interviews about the celebrity painter — people were scared of being sued.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with John Kerry, the U.S.'s special envoy for climate, about the U.N.'s alarming climate report this week and how he will work with other nations to combat climate change.

Underground musician Sam Mehran's father and friends share what the process of compiling his posthumous album, Cold Brew, was like. It's out today, three years after Mehran's death.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with sociologist Harry Edwards about the pressure Black Olympians face and how it intersects with white supremacy that has been historically perpetuated in the games.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to musician Rodrigo Amarante about his second solo album, Drama, which he says was inspired by a personal reckoning with his own understanding of manhood.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with German freelance journalist Holger Klein about the devastating flooding in Erftstadt, Germany, a town southwest of Cologne.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Max Linsky about his new podcast 70 Over 70 and his conversations with famous guests like Dionne Warwick and Norman Lear.

Medical schools were forced to pivot to remote lectures and telemedicine visits during the pandemic. Some of those changes might be sticking for good.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to KQED's Sukey Lewis about the final episode of the podcast On Our Watch, which examines recently-released internal police records of the killing of Oscar Grant in 2009.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with KQED's Sandhya Dirks about the fourth episode of the podcast On Our Watch, which looks at how police departments are unequipped to identify and handle racist policing.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with science and technology historian, Kate Dorsch, about why Americans seem to be especially interested in UFOs.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Junaid Nabi, health systems researcher, about what makes vaccine hesitancy such a uniquely American issue.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Tatishe Nteta of University of Massachusetts, Amherst about his poll showing that nearly 2/3 of Americans oppose cash reparations for the descendants of enslaved people.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with an architect of the Affordable Care Act, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, about the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare once again.

Americans have started to go back into the office as more of the country gets vaccinated. But not everyone wants to return to the pre-pandemic, 9-5 office lifestyle.

Faye Schulman, a former Jewish partisan photographer captured by Nazis to document their troops, died on April 24. She was believed to be 101.

Audie Cornish talks with Manisha Pande of the Indian news outlet "Newslaundry" about how India's devastating second COVID-19 wave has changed local media's coverage of the crisis and the government.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with members of the Japanese band CHAI about WINK, their third studio album, and what makes them different from other female J-pop groups.