Weekend Edition Saturday
A weekend morning news magazine covering hard news, a wide variety of news makers, and cultural stories. On Saturdays, Simon's award-winning commentaries sum up an idea or event related to the week's news. There are clever, informative exchanges, and fresh reports from a cross-section of NPR correspondents on topics from religion to health to food to politics. Simon's interviews with key artists, authors, performers and personalities are always memorable.
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Public health officials say a promising coronavirus vaccine is on its way in 2021. But does that matter if only half of Americans say they're willing to get such a vaccination? -
With most people staying at home these days, Americans are searching for comfort and ditching the denim. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to retail journalist Abha Bhattarai about the demise of jeans.
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Musician Pierce Freelon grew up in a creative and famous Black family and now he's dropping his first children's jazz/hip-hop album, D.a.D., featuring his experiences as a Black millennial father.
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Alistar Martin is an emergency room doctor in Boston who's been tending to patients during the pandemic. He started the "Vote ER" program to help them register in time for the upcoming election.
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Due to COVID-19 worker shortages, the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio needs some of its white collar office workers, like those in accounting, to work on the assembly line with little training.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Kim Johnson about her debut novel This Is My America.In it, a teenage girl works to get her father off of death row.
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Hurricane Isaias is bearing down on the east coast of the US, and in on track to make landfall in Florida near Palm Beach.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Jordan Fisher about his role as a teen dance choreographer in the new Netflix movie, Work It.
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For the first time in its 20 year history, O Magazine has someone other than Oprah Winfrey on its cover: Breonna Taylor, who was killed in her bed by police in March.
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The U.S. saw devastating economic numbers. Negotiations over the coronavirus relief bill are at a standstill. And, a tweet about delaying the election that got a rare bipartisan fact check.
