This NPR News episode covers a series of urgent political, cultural, and technological developments, including protests over the Kennedy Center's closure, a high-stakes Michigan Senate race centered on energy costs, Cuba's ongoing power crisis, free speech tensions at an Ed Sheeran concer
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