Weekend Edition Sunday

Becky Mayo plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro speaks with Simon Wang of Utah State University about how climate change is intensifying the wildfires on the West Coast.

A fundamentalist Christian church at the heart of a right-wing movement is clashing with the South Korean government over COVID-19.

As wildfires on the West Coast force people to flee their homes, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Michael Palmer and Sue McAlister of Blue River, Oregon about their dramatic escape.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with epidemiologist Carlos del Rio of Emory University about the pandemic and its future.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Rachel Lee Goldenberg about her new comedic drama, Unpregnant. It's a movie about two teen girls who take a long road trip so that one can have an abortion.

Campaigning with the pandemic as a backdrop shows how both presidential candidates are getting their messages to voters, with one spinning his handling of the coronavirus and the other condemning it.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Rita Indiana, an award-winning Dominican novelist, about her album, Mandinga Times. It's her first after a decade hiatus from music.

The Latino USAhost, who's spent a career covering those silenced in the media, now tells her own story in a new memoir. "We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public," she said.

Toots Hibbert, the co-founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was one of the most distinctive and important voices of reggae and one of its founding fathers.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to actor Alan Alda, who started a center focused on communicating scientific information to the public, on how the dearth of empathy is affecting pandemic messaging.

The Philpotts of Lake Oswego, Ore. have three kids with dyslexia and one with ADHD. For our Learning Curve series, Jenna Philpott explains how wildfires interrupted their first week of remote school.