NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.

NPR's movie critic and producers discuss how queerness is present across all genres of movies in ways seen and unseen.

Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media. Is that future still possible? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Vishal Shah, VP of the Metaverse, to find out.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Adam Clark Estes of Vox about his new story out titled: "I Covered my body in health trackers for 6 months. It ruined my life." ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with assistant Secretary for Border and Immigration Policy Tony Pham — also a former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher about the Supreme Court ruling that parents have the right to remove their kids from class when books with LGBTQ+ themes are used.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mike Vorkunov from the Athletic about the high stakes game in the NBA finals on Sunday.

CHANG: OK, then Brittany, how do you think Uber's story foreshadows what could happen down the road with buy now, pay later companies? LUSE: OK, another million-dollar question (laughter), Ailsa.

Over the past five months, President Trump has become directly involved in three separate conflicts, but so far, his record is mixed at best.

After the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the southern California coast, marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected, and releasing the last few back into the wild.

CHANG: NPR congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh joins us now from the Capitol. Hi, Deirdre. DEIRDRE WALSH, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa. CHANG: OK, so just how big of a setback is this for Republicans?

AILSA CHANG, HOST: At the Pentagon today, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a robust defense of the U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program. He staunchly backed President Trump's assertion ...