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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with University of California Berkeley researcher Hany Farid about his vision for what will happen in tech over the next decade.

Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, now 90, has a gift for making riveting cinema from the minutiae of the everyday. His latest is a four-and-a-half hour documentary starring Boston City Hall, pre-COVID-19.

Colorado's Proposition 115 could shut down one of the few clinics nationwide that specializes in later abortion.

Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil's new book aims to show readers how the natural world can support, educate and inspire us; it's inspired by her peripatetic childhood and the plants and animals she loved.

Today's cartoonists are depicting the novel coronavirus as an angry, spiky ball — reflecting our knowledge of viruses. But before we knew what they looked like, we imagined disease differently.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with director Julie Cohen about her documentary, RBG, and the life and legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

When President Trump visits Wisconsin Tuesday, it will be without the invitation of the governor. Trump has cited the protests in Kenosha as part of his law-and-order message.

Dozens of notable jazz musicians died this year, many from COVID-19. Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead remembers some of the legends lost, including Bucky Pizzarelli, Ellis Marsalis and Jimmy Heath.

Smith's 1948 follow-up to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a forgotten novel that deserves to be exhumed. The things that made it an awkward response to its predecessor make it more intriguing now.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Meda Nix of Oklahoma, one of the Cherokee speakers who was an early recipient of a vaccine. The vaccinations are being given to people keeping the language alive.