Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about how ultrarunning affects the body, the trend of intermittent fasting and how to protect people's mental health when they talk with chatbots.
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Max Colchester about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the new details that have emerged in the Epstein files.
The International Paralympic Committee decided to allow six Russian and four Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags in Italy. The decision has caused an outcry in Ukraine.
Disgraced, stripped of royal titles and now jailed. King Charles' brother Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. He denies wrongdoing.