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Scott Simon talks with Georgia Tech Transportation Professor Lawrence Frank. Frank is the author of two studies linking suburban sprawl to obesity.

Robert Costa's book Peril, which he co-wrote with Bob Woodward, goes inside Trump's war room on the eve of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Costa says the 2024 election could trigger a constitutional crisis.

Scott talks with William 'Woody' Woodworth about the death of his friend, 'Fast Eddie' Parker, who claimed to be the inspiration for The Hustler's Fast Eddie.

Simon/Ketzel: Scott talks to our gardening guru, Ketzel Levine, who's attending Seattle's annual Northwest Flower and Garden Show. The show, which is bursting with the latest in floral design, is a reminder to frustrated gardeners that spring is just around the corner.

Scott talks to Coach Russ Gray of Georgia's Glascock County High School Panthers basketball team about what it took to break a 62-game losing streak.

Kate Seelye reports 10 years after the fighting ended, Beruit appears to be thriving, although things are far from perfect.

It does not include progressive priorities like paid family leave or measures to lower the costs of prescription drugs. Still, President Biden thinks it would pass both chambers.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the NBA All-Star game, which marks the halfway point of the basketball season.

Russell Lewis of member station KPBS reports from San Diego on how the new administration and its promises of more pay are being received by the troops.

Nine people are still missing since Friday's collision between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing trawler off the Hawaiian Islands. President Bush today asked for prayers for the families of the nine -- all lost from the ship. (The Navy has begun a probe of the incident, with questions focusing on the surfacing procedures followed by the U-S-S Greenville before it struck the trawler.) NPR's Tom Gjelten talks with Linda Wertheimer about the investigation.