• Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Semafor White House reporter David Weigel and Fawaz Gerges, an international relations professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, about past and present U.S. intervention in the Middle East

• Novelist Mark Haddon reflects on the nature of memory and narrative with his new memoir

• David Suzuki celebrates his 90th birthday with a look back on his decades of science communication and environmental activism

• CBC producer Julia Pagel explores Canada's long-lasting relationship with Cuba, and efforts among some Canadians to bolster aid to the country amid the humanitarian crisis

For years, governments and tech companies told students that learning to code would provide a pathway to stability and high-earning salaries. But with AI reshaping the tech industry and jobs disappearing, there are questions about whether "learn to code" campaigns were oversold as a silver bullet. University of Waterloo associate professor Troy Vasiga and New York Times technology reporter Natasha Singer join Nora Young to discuss the promise and payoff of coding, and whether today's "learn AI" message is taking a page from that old Big Tech playbook.

• Guest host Nora Young speaks with Reuters national security reporter Phillip Stewart about Washington's military objectives as the United States and Israel-Iran war intensifies, and Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari discusses the situation inside Iran

• Financial Times columnist and author Simon Kuper discusses how the World Cup reflects global politics, culture and power

• Toronto Star national columnist Susan Delacourt and The Economist's Canada correspondent Rob Russo take stock of Mark Carney's first year as prime minister

• University of Waterloo associate professor Troy Vasiga and New York Times technology reporter Natasha Singer look back on "learn to code" campaigns and whether they delivered on their promise as AI disrupts tech