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  • Hoop Dreams Land Basketball Player An 'Iran Job'
    Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with filmmaker Till Schauder and basketball player Kevin Sheppard. Schauder's new film goes behind the scenes in Iran, where Sheppard played professionally for a time. The film is called The Iran Job.
  • Candidates Return To The Trail After VP Debate
    One day after the only vice presidential debate, Rep. Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden took to the campaign trail. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.
  • Border Incidents Ratchet Up Turkey-Syria Tensions
    Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon and NPR's Kelly McEvers about the latest news in Turkey and Syria, where fighting from Syria's internal conflict has spilled across the border the two nations share.
  • The reporter's mother, Nawal Elbager, of Khartoum, Sudan, shows off her falafel.
    When It Comes To Falafel, The Flavors Of Home Can Vary
    A reporter's quest to understand differences in regional recipes of the Middle East staple yields homespun stories about their provenance.
  • Comedian Tig Notaro dealt with a cancer diagnosis the best way she knew how — with humor.
    Fresh Air Weekend: Tig Notaro, Louis C.K., Nate Silver
    Tig Notaro manages to find humor in a cancer diagnosis and Louis C.K. explains why he called Notaro's set "masterful." Statistical analyst Nate Silver says humility is key to making accurate predictions.
  • The sovereign principality of Sealand is an artillery platform built during World War II about seven miles off the coast of Essex, England. Paddy Roy Bates founded Sealand in 1967, proclaiming it an independent state.
    The Pirate Prince Of Sealand, Remembered
    Paddy Roy Bates,the self-proclaimed prince of Sealand, died this week at the age of 91. In 1965, Bates boarded an artillery platform seven miles off the English coast and set up Radio Essex, a "pirate" music station. But he didn't stop there.
  • Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash Plays Not My Job
    Sesame Street's Elmo and master puppeteer Kevin Clash play our game called "Shut up! Shut up! I'm Going to Cut Your Mike!" Three stories about Bill O'Reilly taken from an article in GQ.
  • How Lincoln's Fiercest Rival Became His Close Ally
    Walter Starhr's new biography, Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man, tells the story of William Seward and Abraham Lincoln and how these two campaign adversaries became close White House allies.
  • Smoke rises from the stacks of the La Cygne Generating Station coal-fired power plant in La Cygne, Kan. President Obama's regulation of the coal industry has come under fire from his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
    On The Campaign Trail, Regulations Dominate The Environmental Debate
    In this presidential election, neither candidate is talking much about cleaning up the air or protecting scenic lands. Instead, the debate is about whether and how much environmental regulations hurt businesses.
  • Republican Ricky Gill, who spoke at the Republican National Convention in September, is just one of many candidates this election with Asian-American backgrounds.
    More Asian-Americans Seeking Higher Political Office
    This year, 36 Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders launched congressional campaigns, more than double the number from a record set just two years ago. "Asian-Americans are finally seeing that it can be done," says California Democrat Judy Chu. "We are finally bearing fruit."
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