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  • Sandwich Throwing: Australian For Protest
    Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon takes note of two instances of sandwich throwing, aimed at the Australian prime minister.
  • Week In Sports: Who Will Face The Spurs For The NBA Title?
    ESPN sports commentator Howard Bryant talks to Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon about the week's top sports stories, including the NBA conference finals, the NHL, and Serena Williams' dominance at the French Open tennis championships.
  • If This Cute Cheerios Ad Causes Drama, What Won't?
    When an advertiser seems to do everything right and still draws complaints, it makes you wonder: Is there any way to market to diverse communities without stepping on toes?
  • Charting The Career Of The 'Evocateur' Of Talk
    In the 1980s Morton Downey Jr. practically invented the world of trashy political talk shows. A new documentary, Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, dissects his rise, his fall and his influence. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with one of the film's directors, Seth Kramer, about Morton Downey Jr.'s meteoric rise and enduring legacy.
  • A native of Maine, Stephen King has used the state as the backdrop for many of his novels and short stories. In <em>Joyland</em>, however, he sets his scene in North Carolina.
    Fresh Air Weekend: Stephen King, Daft Punk And Cannes
    King's new book, Joyland is set in a North Carolina amusement park. The book is part horror novel, part supernatural thriller. Random Access Memories finds the French duo trying to sound more human. John Powers returns from the Cannes Film Festival with tales of the good, the bad and the parties.
  • What's On Obama's Agenda With China's President?
    Next week, President Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at an estate in California. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon speaks with Ken Lieberthal of the Brookings Institution about what issues the two world leaders are likely to discuss.
  • <a href="http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html">Monica Stephen's "Geography of Hate" map, shows the locations of racial slurs on Twitter.</a>
    Haters Gonna Hate, As Shown On A Map
    Over at Humboldt State University in California, geography professor Monica Stephens sorted through geotagged racial slurs on Twitter for a year. And then she put them on a map.
  • UN: Iraq Records 1,045 Deaths In May; Highest In Years
    May was the deadliest month recorded by the United Nations since June 2008.
  • France Celebrates First Same-Sex Marriage, But Not Everyone Is Happy
    Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon speaks with French sociologist Michel Wievorka about the wave of popular opposition in France to gay marriage. This past week, for the first time under the new law allowing gay marriage, two men wed in the city of Montpellier.
  • Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker and Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker on the CBS TV series <em>All in the Family</em> in 1976. Stapleton died Friday at 90.
    Jean Stapleton, Who Played Edith Bunker, Dies
    As Edith, Stapleton took on the thorniest of social issues, from race to feminism. She said that humor had a way of reducing intolerance to nothing.
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