News
Up First from NPR
- Pinching pennies, casting ballots: a midterms dispatch from the Midwest
- Websites Go Offline, Protests in France, Netflix Downsizes
- US Prepares For Possible Strikes, Midterm Early Voting, Trump BBC Deposition
- Democratic Surrogates Campaign, US & Israel Plan Iran Strikes, Tesla SpaceX Merger
- Zelenskyy Mending Ties, Trump In North Carolina, Saudi Arabia Gets British Support
- Pushback On Trump's Russia Policy, Competitive Midterm Races, DOJ Noncitizen Voting
- Trump Eases Russia Sanctions, Midterm Campaign Money, Violent Protests In France
- Israelis have changed. Will they change their leader?
- School Shooting in Bend, Elon Musk's Power, MN Senate Race
- Oregon School Shooting, Russia's View On US-Ukraine Split, DOJ Sues California
Embedded
- Where is Austin Tice: The hardest thing
- Where is Austin Tice?: Those who know
- Where is Austin Tice?: The escape
- Where is Austin Tice?: A meeting in Muskat
- Where is Austin Tice?: The video
- Where is Austin Tice?: The driver
- Where is Austin Tice?: The American journalist
- Where is Austin Tice?: A black box
- Where is Austin Tice?: We believe he’s alive
- Introducing “Where is Austin Tice?” from NPR and the BBC
The NPR Politics Podcast
- Midterm campaigning enters home stretch
- The peril and promise of presidential power
- Texas: Democrats' eternal hope
- Why Dems see opportunity in Alaska
- The Kansas Senate race is looking like a toss up. Yes, really.
- A week of warning signs for the GOP?
- They voted for Trump in 2024. Now, they regret it.
- AI chatbots: the new voter guides?
- Why the GOP Is now worried about Ohio
- What does the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq mean for the region? | Sources & Methods
Talk and Interview
Fresh Air
- Best Of: Meshell Ndegeocello / Betty Gilpin
- Platinum songwriter Jimmy Webb
- Betty Gilpin is seeking anti-algorithm, weird roles – and it's working
- Election experts share concerns about the midterms
- David Treuer traces America's relationship with violence back to the frontier
- Meshell Ndegeocello turns familiar songs inside out
- Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li
- Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
- Inside the Musk/Bezos space race
- Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension
Science Friday
- Why are we changing the way we keep time?
- Kazuo Ishiguro on emotional truth in sci-fi and in our AI reality
- Is that garbage can bear resistant? These bears will find out
- Jennifer Doudna on what it takes to be a good scientist
- Getting the billion-dollar PRIMA space telescope off the ground
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on making climate action cool
- Could a whale swallow a human, 'Whalefall' style?
- Why do politicians talk like that?
- Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic
- Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet
1A
- The News Roundup For October 23, 2026
- Politics: The Midterm Races You Aren’t Hearing About
- Money: The 1A Economy Call-In
- What Does Donald Trump’s Tariffs Mean For Michigan? Plus, The Israeli Election
- 'If You Can Keep It': The View Of The Midterms From Michigan
- The News Roundup For October 16, 2026
- Money: What Rising Diesel Prices Mean For You
- In Good Health: Are We Solving Hearing Loss?
- Military: Pete Hegseth’s New Pentagon
- 'If You Can Keep It': The Purpose Of The Polls
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
- Should AI have the same rights as humans?
- On Point Live: The North Carolina factor
- How should we be talking about the Cornell case?
- How a few tight Senate races could define Congress
- Are we on the verge of a new Cold War?
- The Jackpod: A rough start for Gen Z
- Can the U.S. and Canada still be friends?
- The political scramble for the new South
- Who owns America's farmland?
- AI is steamrolling through math. Why does that matter?
Latino USA
- Chicago’s Our Home: How Some South Shore Residents Are Taking on the Federal Government
- Chicago is Our Home: Haitians Left In Immigration Limbo
- Estrella: Bittersweet Freedom for a “Bad Mexican”
- Estrella: la inmigrante imperfecta
- Guillermo del Toro on Why His Pan's Labyrinth Is More Relevant than Ever
- The Whisper Game: Looking for Answers in Perú
- The Whisper Game: Trump Comes to Town, a Young Venezuelan Migrant is Sent to CECOT
- The Whisper Game: A Young Migrant and Spent Bullet Cases
- From the Fields to Hollywood: Luis Valdez on Chicano Storytelling
- Sneak Peek: How Peniley Ramírez survived one of the deadliest earthquakes in Mexico City
Music
NPR Music
- New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 23
- Over and Over: "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells (NPR+)
- Alt.Latino: Los Tigres' Tiny Desk, explained
- Elephant 6's rapturous, heartbreaking story
- New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 16
- Alt.Latino: Every El Tiny song has a secret
- A new canon of Halloween music
- Interview: Fontaines D.C.'s decadent, dystopian 'Dopamine Chamber'
- Interview: Troye Sivan is leaning into loneliness
- New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 9
World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
- Revisiting Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain'
- Metric on their latest album, 'Romanticize The Dive"
- Personal Records: Jen Agg
- How a Midwestern landfill inspired Fruit Bats' latest album
- How being 'fake brave' helped The Army, The Navy find real confidence
- Before the Breakthrough: Selena
- For Alabama Shakes, making music together again was like 'riding a bike'
- How Brian Jackson reimagined some of his legendary work with Gil Scott-Heron
- The Womack Sisters leaned on each other to keep their musical ambitions alive
- John R. Miller takes to the road on 'The Great Unknowing'
Fresh Air
- Best Of: Meshell Ndegeocello / Betty Gilpin
- Platinum songwriter Jimmy Webb
- Betty Gilpin is seeking anti-algorithm, weird roles – and it's working
- Election experts share concerns about the midterms
- David Treuer traces America's relationship with violence back to the frontier
- Meshell Ndegeocello turns familiar songs inside out
- Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li
- Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
- Inside the Musk/Bezos space race
- Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension
Fun and Sports
Fresh Air
- Best Of: Meshell Ndegeocello / Betty Gilpin
- Platinum songwriter Jimmy Webb
- Betty Gilpin is seeking anti-algorithm, weird roles – and it's working
- Election experts share concerns about the midterms
- David Treuer traces America's relationship with violence back to the frontier
- Meshell Ndegeocello turns familiar songs inside out
- Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li
- Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
- Inside the Musk/Bezos space race
- Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension