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Earlier this month, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, and the former head of Google, Eric Schmidt, wrote a piece for Foreign Affairs arguing that the future of warfare is here. They say that the U.S. is not ready for it.

The two authors argue recent technological developments have changed warfare more in the past several years than the decades spanning from the introduction of the airplane, radio, and mechanization to the battlefield. And while this new tech has only been shown in small snippets in current conflicts, it is only the beginning.

So, can the U.S. catch up? And what will this warfare look like?

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When Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president, his son stole the show.

In a viral moment, the cameras panned to 17-year-old Gus Walz, who, with tears in his eyes, stood up, clapped loudly, pointed to the stage and appeared to repeatedly yell out: “That’s my dad!”

Some cheered the new visibility of neurodivergent people.

But what do advocates and parents of neurodiverse children actually want from government officials, like Tim Walz, in terms of policy?

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It’s been more than three weeks since the U.S. and Russia completed the largest prisoner swap since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Speaking from the White House shortly after news broke that three American prisoners were headed home, President Biden described the release as an “incredible relief.”

Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was one of those prisoners, and she’s sharing what life was like in a Russian prison and how she’s adjusting to life at home.

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Both major party presidential nominees Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are on the same side of one issue. Getting rid of taxes on tips. But what would that really look like in practice?

Wailin Wong and Darian Woods from NPR’s daily economics podcast, The Indicator, dive into the potential guardrails for a policy that many economists believe could easily go off track.

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What happens when political ambition collides with a #MeToo allegation in the Democratic party?

Episode 2 of our two-part investigation.

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Did Eric Garcetti, a powerful Democrat, lie under oath about a #MeToo scandal in his office?

That’s the question at the center of a new investigation from NPR.

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College students are trickling back onto campuses for the fall semester, just months after protests exploded across the U.S. over Israel’s war in Gaza.

University leaders are bracing for more protests and counter-protests this semester. And on some campuses, new rules have already taken effect.

We hear from Vanderbilt University chancellor Daniel Diermeier about the academic year ahead.

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Before she became vice president, Kamala Harris had only ever won elections in California — a solid blue state.

To win the White House, the Harris-Walz ticket will need to compete in purple and even red areas.

At the Democratic National Convention, delegates and other attendees from conservative parts of the country offer what they think their party needs to do to reach voters in swing states and Republican strongholds.

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Olivia Julianna, 21, is one of more than 200 digital content creators who has been given media credentials to the Democratic National Convention this week.

She has over a million followers across TikTok, Instagram and other accounts, in an age where more young people are learning the news through social media.

But she never imagined that her “very working-class” upbringing would lead her not only to the DNC — but in front of it.

We hear from the Texas native ahead of her speech to the convention.

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Earlier this month, student protestors filled the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in opposition to a controversial quota system for government jobs.

Authorities then cracked down on demonstrators, blocking internet access, imposing a curfew and issuing police officers a shoot-on-sight order. In just over a month, more than 600 people have been killed.

And as the protests escalated, the demonstrations started to become about much more than just the quota system.

Eventually, students were able to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign.

The students who ousted Hasina are now helping to lead Bangladesh.

“We youth are not only the generation of Facebook, YouTube and Instagram,” says 19-year-old protestor Mumtahana Munir Mitti.

“We also love our country. And we also love to participate in [the] rebuilding of our country.”

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