Weekend Edition Saturday
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Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories.
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Episodes
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What are the best basketball shoes?
Scientists discover what makes basketball shoes squeak on the courts, and celebrate their discovery by making music.
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What's fueling all of the debt for the federal government?
The federal debt continues to grow, topping $39 trillion this month. Like a shopper who buys more than he earns every week, the nation's credit card bill is compounding. Just paying the interest now costs more than every other government program except Social Security.
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Lessons a Chicago aquarium learned from successfully rearing a warty frogfish
Staff at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium have reared a special kind of fish known as a warty frogfish for the first time in captivity. Their success may hold broader lessons for raising marine species.
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Opinion: White House 'gamifying' Iran war updates
The White House has depicted the war in Iran online with videos that weave real life images of missile strikes and destruction with clips from video games, sports clips, and action movies.
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Ranking Member of House Armed Services Committee David Smith discusses the war on Iran
NPR's Scott Simon talks with House Armed Service Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., about the war on Iran, now a month old, and DHS funding.
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This Pennsylvania woman asked friends to help weave her burial casket
When Maddie Christine Brokop learned she was dying, she invited her friends to help weave the tray she will be buried in.
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The latest updates on the Iran war after a month
As the war with Iran enters its second month, the U.S. has determined with certainty that about one third of Iran's missile arsenal has been destroyed.
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The 'No Kings' protest march happens nationwide this weekend
Protests against the Trump administration are planned to take place around the country today. Organizers say there may be more than 3,000 rallies across 50 states.
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Saturday Sports: Men and women's March madness; MLB opening day
NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele talk men and women's March madness.
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U.S.-Iran relations specialist explains the power structure in Iran
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Sina Toossi, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy, about the power structure in Iran, and how things have changed within it since the start of the war.
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UK-REFORMING THE LORDS
The UK Parliament still has 92 unelected lawmakers who inherit seats by bloodline. They're all elderly white men. A new law now phases them out, for the 1st time in nearly 1,000 years.
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Opinion: Lessons from a bad weather forecast
Residents in and around Washington braced themselves for damaging storms earlier this week, but turns out it was a forecast flop. One local meteorologist apologized.
