Jorge Just and Jennifer Jenkins on Public Domain Day, the risk to art and innovation posed by lengthening copyright terms, and how maintaining a rich, open, collective cultural heritage means more movies like Wicked and books like James.

Demographer Lyman Stone is worried that we aren’t having as many babies as we used to — and says he knows how that could change.

Vox audio editor Jorge Just speaks with Eman Abdelhadi, co-author of Everything for Everyone: an Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072.

Vox audio editor Jorge Just speaks with Mixael Laufer, spokesperson for Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, an anarchist collective dedicated to making medicines and medical technologies available to anyone who needs them. Just and Laufer discuss the group's many projects, including the Apothecary Microlab, a DIY lab reactor that lets people make their own pirated pharmaceuticals at home, and the collective's ultimate goal of expanding what it means to take care of oneself and others. More information: Video: Eradicating Hepatitis C with Bio-Terrorism at DEFCON 32

Dr. Gregory Berns is a researcher, author, and distinguished professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University. In his book Cowpuppy, he writes about how he transitioned from doing his work in a lab to doing it on a farm and about the surprising emotional lives of the cows he raised. In this month’s Highlight Podcast, Vox environmental correspondent Benji Jones talks with Berns about how research on dogs and cows can lead to surprising philosophical questions, including the possibility that other mammals might share what many think of as the most human of emotions: love.

Unexplainable host Noam Hassenfeld talks to Ethan Mollick about how creative humans can use AI to improve their work. Mollick is a professor at Wharton, where he studies entrepreneurship and innovation. He writes a lot about AI on his Substack, One Useful Thing, and in his recent bestseller, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. And while he’s very thoughtful about what the future might look like, he doesn’t let that get in the way of trying to understand how AI can be used in the present.

Jonquilyn Hill talks to Eve L. Ewing, a writer/professor/artist/sociologist whose list of titles only hints at the breadth and depth of her work. Ewing writes poetry, fiction for young people and adults, academic books about education policy, and mainstream comic books. In this month’s episode, Jonquilyn and Eve talk about how she gets so much done, why she pushes herself to try new things, what she’s learned from a lifetime in education, and what, through her Beyond Schools research lab, she’s still working to figure out.

Byrd Pinkerton talks to public historian Kathryn Gehred about her podcast, Your Most Humble & Obedient Servant, which features letters written by women in the 1800s. Most biographies excerpt a line or two from Great Men doing Great Things. But the sleeves-rolled-up archivists who transcribe and prepare these letters know there is a trove of rich domestic day-to-day history hidden away in historical correspondence.

Julia Longoria talks to Supreme Court scholar Steve Vladeck about the shadow docket, where the Court hands down rulings that, by tradition, are unexplained and can show up at any time, without vote counts or reasoning behind them. In this episode, Vladeck explains that the Court has fundamentally changed how it goes about its business, and why that's something every American needs to understand.