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On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Matthew McConaughey talks about letting ambition get the best of him.

A study from Stanford says AI is taking jobs and making it harder for young people to find work. Tech education company founder Sinead Bovell talks about the skills that will be critical for the future of work.

For many BIPOC students, the fields of STEM can seem out of reach. A program at one San Francisco museum aims to help young people from all backgrounds see themselves as potential scientists.

For years, research has shown a digital divide when it comes to schools teaching about new technologies. Educators worry that this could leave some students behind in an AI-powered economy.

Republican officials are pushing for more voting restrictions on U.S. citizens who were born abroad and have never lived in the country, after unsuccessfully challenging their ballots in 2024.

It’s Earth Week on KALW. And BAY MADE is sharing episodes from three climate justice podcasts: Earth Riot, Rising Tide, and Climate Shifted. Plus, the sounds of the natural world.

For NPR's Word of the Week, we're getting hot: During the Ottoman Empire, people used devices called "zarfs" to hold their coffee cups. Here's what to know about this word's history.

President Trump is escalating his attack on the Federal Reserve. Trump is attempting to fire a member of the Fed's governing board -- a move that critics say is unlawful.

Rock and roll is alive and well atop the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, as Twenty One Pilots' Breach hits No. 1.

When a chemical fire caused widespread evacuations and sent a chlorine plume over a Black Atlanta suburb last year, it was not the first accident of its kind. That worries residents there.

This past summer's box office was sluggish, but over the weekend, Hollywood found help in the form of the devil. The Conjuring: Last Rites ended up having the top horror movie opening of all time.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the conservative podcaster Michael Knowles, who was a friend of Charlie Kirk's and will headline tonight's show of The American Comeback Tour as a tribute to Kirk.