Weekend Edition Sunday

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with comedian Hasan Minhaj, about the topics he's been tackling on the latest season of his show, Patriot Act, on Netflix.

Nursing homes have been hit hard by COVID-19, but one Maryland facility has had no deaths or infections. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to director Dr. Derrick DeWitt about how he kept everyone safe.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, Ariz., about his decision to require face masks amid the state's dramatic rise of COVID-19 cases.

COVID-19 has been spiking in the U.S., with a steep rise in confirmed cases among several sunbelt states. Texas is putting its reopening on pause.

We take a look a the White House reponse to the surge of coronavirus infections in the U.S., as well as President Trump's agenda for his second term and his attempt to kill the Affordable Care Act.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made Rio de Janeiro's famed Maracana soccer stadium a field for his battle to reopen the country despite the mounting coronavirus caseload and deaths.

Women have slowly made economic gains over the last half-century, and the gender wage gap is as narrow as it has ever been. But coronavirus could reverse those gains, and motherhood is a big reason.

For his latest novel, Kevin Kwan decided to update one of his own favorite books, A Room With a View. The result is Sex and Vanity, a fun, decadent whirl that manages to take on some serious subjects.

Lin-Manuel Miranda says his musical Hamilton, which starts streaming on Disney+ this week, shows "everything that's past is present."

The International Monetary Fund forecasts that economies hit by COVID-19 are in more trouble than previously forecasted. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Jim Zarroli speak with the IMF's Gita Gopinath.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has formed a task force aimed at halting the illegal sale of fireworks that have prompted thousands of complaints.

Nelba Marquez-Greene and her husband, James Greene, are inspired by the marches for racial justice but fear they could fizzle out and become just another disappointment.