Weekend Edition

NPR's Scott Simon remembers comedy writer Anne Beatts, who died this week at the age of 74. She worked in male-dominated writers' rooms at Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon magazine.

Sports schedules seem to be slowly going back to normal while the scrutiny on the NCAA persists beyond March Madness.

1.5 trillion dollars for next year's budget, plus a 2.3 trillion dollar infrastructure plan: President Joe Biden's asking Congress for a lot of money to further his ambition agenda.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to wrestling columnist Alfred Konuwa about this weekend's Wrestlemania and the decision to move old episodes from the WWE Network to NBC's Peacock platform.

A majority of Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama voted against forming a union. It wasn't that much of a surprise for people who work and live in the state.

In part two of his conversation with Hunter Biden, NPR's Scott Simon asks about his unlikley friendship with a woman who provided him drugs during the depths of his addiction to crack.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to metal detectorist Jim Bailey about discovering an ancient coin in Rhode Island that may solve the world's oldest cold case.

A coronavirus variant that originated in the UK is now the most dominant strain in the U.S. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former USAID administrator Raj Shah about the global COVID-19 response.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with celebrated author Paul Theroux about his latest novel, Under the Wave at Waimea.

What would you do with $1,000 a month, no strings attached? During a year of financial crisis, one mother in Jackson, Mississippi finds out just how far that extra money goes.