Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians.
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Episodes
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Why Easter Sunday in the Black church is the 'Olympics of church fashion'
Culture writer Taylor Crumpton says fashionable outfits and colorful hats are how to catch God's eye at Easter Sunday services. She shares with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe how Black families dress for Easter.
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Louise Hegarty's 'Fair Play' honors — and subverts — the crime novel
Abigail loves staging a good murder mystery for her friends but then her brother dies. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Louise Hegarty about her novel, "Fair Play."
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Maryland senator discusses his trip to El Salvador to meet Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about developments following his trip to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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New research finds CT scans can cause cancer. Here's what to know
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually.
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Are we at the start of a new nuclear arms race?
Matthew Bunn, a professor specializing in nuclear arms control at Harvard's Kennedy School, tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about concerns over a new nuclear arms race as the U.S. looks increasingly inward.
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Politics chat: Trump's strategy with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
The Trump administration is pushing the boundaries of executive power, often by claiming emergencies.
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Kansas City's Museum of BBQ celebrates the magic of smoked meat and sauce
The Museum of BBQ has opened in Kansas City, Mo., and says it celebrates all kinds of American barbeque.
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Why Trump's tariffs upended the 'safe harbor' bonds market — and what it means
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Andrew Ackerman of The Washington Post about the wild week in the US bond market.
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After crackdowns on student protestors, a culture of fear persists at Brown University
The mood on the campus of Brown University, a hotbed of student protest last year, is now one of fear and intimidation, according to some students.
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U.S.-Iran hold their first high-level talks in years over a new nuclear deal
For the first time in years, the U.S. and Iran held high-level talks on a new deal concerning Iran's nuclear program.
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Tourists can now track wolves in the Italian wilderness
A wildlife group in the national parks of Italy's Abruzzo – a vast green area known as the "lungs" of Europe - is offering an unusual kind of tourism: tracking wolves. It's part of an effort these long persecuted, much misunderstood creatures.
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Can the American Dream survive without access to cheap goods?
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Harvard American Studies Prof. Lizabeth Cohen about how mass consumption and cheap goods became tied to the American dream.