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Niels Swinkels is a freelance journalist, musicologist, sound engineer, and radio producer. Born and raised in the Netherlands, he studied English and Musicology at the University of Nijmegen. Before moving to San Francisco, he was the Arts Editor, and Senior Classical Music & Opera critic for Brabants Dagblad, a Dutch daily newspaper. In addition to producing KALW’s Open Air, a weekly radio magazine for the Bay Area Performing Arts, he is also a wine guy at Trader Joe’s Nob Hill in San Francisco...

Newspapers across the country have dropped the comic strip Dilbert after the creator made a series of racist remarks.

Trevor Noah is stepping down as host of The Daily Show after seven years. We'll listen back to portions of two 2016 interviews with Noah, whose newest standup comedy special just premiered on Netflix.

With temperatures spiking across the U.S., NPR's Juana Summers talks with pediatrician Dr. Aaron Bernstein about how extreme heat affects the human body.

NPR's Mary Louse Kelly talks with Kim Hyun-woo, who — until 2014 — held a senior post in North Korea's Ministry of State Security in his first interview.

Filmmaker Ramita Navai says the Taliban are abducting and imprisoning women. Justin Chang reviews Ali & Ava. Will Bunch discusses his new book, After the Ivory Tower Falls.

The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Morrison.

The late rapper — who was killed at 25 in 1996 — would have turned 52 this year. Santi Elijah Holley's new book follows the Shakur family tree and their work in the Black Liberation Movement.

The Supreme Court limited the ways in which the EPA could regulate greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, jeopardizing President Biden's goal for an emissions-free power sector by 2035.

The San Francisco Board of Education approved a new collective bargaining agreement yesterday between San Francisco Unified and the United Educators of San Francisco, the district's teachers union / It took about two hours early Monday morning to extinguish an encampment fire in West Oakland / Governor Gavin Newsom is moving to impose state sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine / Facebook's parent company - Meta – says it's banning ads from Russian state media and removing a network of 40 fake accounts, pages and groups publishing pro-Russian talking points.

Seven law enforcement officers and three hospital employees have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a Black man at a state psychiatric hospital last week.

The economy, especially the high cost of inflation, played a role in the midterm elections. The issue of inflation might inform political agendas for the next couple of years.