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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After Venezuela, is the world order shifting from diplomacy towards aggression?
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Peter Krause of Boston College about the Trump Administration's willingness to act unilaterally against other countries and what this means for international relations.
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Can Cuba's economy recover from U.S. intervention in Venezuela's oil industry?
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer asks University of Texas at Austin energy researcher Jorge Pinon about the economic and political implications of Cuba's reliance on Venezuelan oil.
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Sports-themed movies to get you into the Winter Olympics mood
Toe pick! NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer discusses the best movies about winter sports with film critic and sports writer Will Leitch.
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Politics chat: Lawmakers push back on Venezuela, ICE shooting sparks protests
A change in U.S. posture, following its military operation last weekend in Venezuela, as President Trumps talks about selling Venezuela's oil and the U.S. taking control of Greenland.
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How the U.S. operation against now-deposed President Maduro played out
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured by American forces in the early hours of Saturday morning in an operation that the U.S. government said took months to plan.
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Venezuela is the latest in the U.S.'s long history of interventions in Latin America
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, about the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America.
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Venezuelans at home and abroad respond to the U.S. operation and Maduro's capture
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in New York City to face criminal charges. There are now fears of a power vacuum in the country as President Trump says the U.S. will "run" the nation.
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The legal basis for the U.S. operation, and the charges Maduro and his family face
We look at the drug and weapons charges against the deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as the U.S. Justice Department vows to prosecute him on American soil.
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Trump says the U.S. will run Venezuela. Here's how that might go
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Ambassador Fredrick Barton, now a lecturer at Princeton University, about the challenges of U.S. nation-building in countries such as Venezuela.
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Child care providers face intense scrutiny amid funding cuts and allegations of fraud
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Maria Snider, vice president of the Minnesota Child Care Association - an advocacy group - about the impact of the freeze on federal child care funds.
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Italian pasta brands get relief from Trump's tariffs after threatening to stop exports
Americans may still get to enjoy Italian pasta after the Trump administration spared several producers from high-level tariffs.
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Netflix docuseries 'Sean Combs: The Reckoning' does what prosecutors couldn't
We look at how "Sean Combs: The Reckoning," an explosive Netflix docuseries, is affecting the public's opinion of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, convicted last year after a highly publicized trial.