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Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with New York Times columnist Joe Nocera about the increasing volume of criticism surrounding the NCAA and its governance of college sports. Nocera will be in Atlanta, covering the start of the Final Four tournament.

President Biden has invited a top group of bipartisan leaders in the House and Senate to come to the Oval Office and discuss his big economic plan. The proposal totals $4 trillion.

Many of the cost factors that people think are the most important pale in comparison to those that actually are. Mismanagement and fraud top the list. New technologies and treatments are low. Most people think beneficiaries pay their own way or have prepaid for care, neither of which is the the case.

In a public memo, U.S. top military leaders have condemned the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and pledged to protect and defend the Constitution.

China on Thursday begins its biggest political meetings of the year, signaling its confidence that it has the coronavirus under control. At the top of the agenda: how to revive the flagging economy.

Despite the pandemic recession, holiday sales are expected to set a new record, topping $755 billion.

Though she started her broadcasting career as a news reporter, City Folk Morning host Claudia Marshall is a music lover at heart — she's from Motown, after all.

Ramtin Arablouei is co-host and co-producer of NPR's podcast Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences.

Robert Benincasa is a computer-assisted reporting producer in NPR's Investigations Unit.

A lesson from the Australian classic rockers explains why the pop star's newest album, which hasn't generated glowing reviews or massive radio hits, still had an explosive opening sales week.