Scott Simon

What do the Coronation and the Kentucky Derby have in common, other than falling on the same day? Hats! Fashionable, fascinating, and sometimes freaky.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michele Steele of ESPN about horse deaths, suspicious sports betting, and upsets in the NHL playoffs.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler about the privacy issues individuals face if they use Amazon's new healthcare service, Amazon Clinic.

NPR's Scott Simon muses about the usefulness of Britain's royal family on this coronation day.

King Charles III is being formally crowned the monarch of the United Kingdom during an elaborate ceremony in London Saturday, the first British coronation since 1953.

NPR'S Scott Simon speaks to artist Nadya Tolokonnikova about her performance art group, Pussy Riot, which is receiving the prestigious Woody Guthrie Prize Saturday for its political messaging.

President Biden has arranged a meeting with four congressional leaders to discuss raising the debt ceiling. Plus, another sizeable gift for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas comes to light.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Romanian director Cristian Mungiu about his new film, "R.M.N." –- a story about South Asian workers coming to a traditional Eastern European village.

Deadly Russian strikes in two Ukrainian cities have killed at least 25 people – including several children.

The second week of E. Jean Carroll's trial against former President Donald Trump starts Monday. The former columnist says he raped her in the 1990s, then called her a liar when she went public.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the NBA playoffs and a long delayed debut in Major League Baseball.

Navy Yeoman Jacob Tate remembers his time as a gay serviceman during the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" era, which kept openly LGBTQ service members from serving in the military.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about his new novel, "Chain-Gang All-Stars."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to The National frontman Matt Berninger about the band's new album, "First Two Pages of Frankenstein," and about the band's embrace of "Sad Dad" moniker.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and Johns Hopkins University financial history professor, Kathleen Day, on the history of the debt ceiling.

Many worry the first heat wave of the season this weekend in parts of California could be the beginning of months of flooding, as the massive snowpack in the Sierra Nevada starts to melt.

We look at what North Carolina Supreme Court's reversal on a GOP voting map means for gerrymandering cases in other states, as well as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's win on the debt ceiling bill.

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died this week at the age of 96.

Pope Francis says women will be allowed to vote on a Vatican panel that had been exclusively male. NPR's Scott Simon asks Kate McElwee of the Women's Ordination Conference about it.

We'll take a look a the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela - its effects in the region but also, in the U.S., with more Venezuelans trying to migrate.