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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The Sex Scandals Engulfing K-Pop
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jihye Lee of Bloomberg News about the sex scandals engulfing the K-pop industry in South Korea. Two K-pop stars have been questioned by police.
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How White Supremacist Ideology Spreads
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kathleen Belew, a historian at The University of Chicago, about the global reach of white supremacist ideologies.
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Sunday Puzzle: Solve This Case
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with WDET listener Elliott Shevin of Oak Park, Mich.
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How A Georgia Teacher Won $10,000 By Reading The Fine Print
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Donelan Andrews, a high school teacher in Georgia, who won $10,000 by reading the fine print of her insurance contract.
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Inside The Racist Online Attacks On Meghan Markle
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Max Foster, royal correspondent and anchor at CNN, about his reporting on racist and sexist attacks against Meghan Markle.
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3 Billboards In Baltimore
Jennifer Carrieri's sister was murdered in 1996. The case was never solved. She talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about putting billboards up in Baltimore in search of leads in the case.
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight Crashes
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 MAX has crashed outside Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
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Teaching Kids To Control Their Anger
Teaching children to control their emotions, especially anger, is difficult. We look at how another culture accomplishes this and learn about a powerful tool that American parents may be overlooking.
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Sunday Puzzle: In This Game, A Chance To Claim Vic-tor-y
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz play a word game with KQED listener Tracy Starr of Oakland, Calif.
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The Song Capturing The Heart Of Sudan's Protest Movement
Some of Sudan's biggest protests in decades are demanding that President Omar al-Bashir step down. A song written for an earlier time of discord has emerged as the protesters' anthem.
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The Ethics Of New Technology
Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Caterina Fake. She is a co-founder of Flickr, a venture capitalist, and host of the podcast Should This Exist? about understanding the impact of technology on humanity.
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The Best 'Florida Man' Stories
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks the Miami Herald's Howard Cohen about bizarre stories situated in Florida featuring the so-called Florida Man.