Scott Simon

Washington, D.C.

Writer and Host, Weekend Edition Saturday at NPR

Host NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday Author, SWINGTIME FOR HITLER, fall 2023. Special Contributor CBS Sunday Morning. Husband, father. @nprweekend @upfirst

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Articles

'Class Clown' looks back on Dave Barry's sometimes-dark past with his trademark humor

4 days ago | nhpr.org | Scott Simon

Dave Barry says he's always been the "class clown." His new book looks back at his "first 77 years," examining the funny but also the tragic. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the Pulitzer Prize winner.
Saturday Sports: NBA and NHL playoffs

4 days ago | tpr.org | Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs.
India and Pakistan continue attacks even as they say they are open to de-escalation

4 days ago | wrvo.org | Diaa Hadid |Scott Simon

After targeting each other's airbases, Pakistan and India say they are open to de-escalation.
Trump announces ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan

4 days ago | kdnk.org | Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Elizabeth Threlkeld, a Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, about rising tensions between India and Pakistan.
U.S. cardinals react to the new pope being from Chicago

4 days ago | kdnk.org | Jason DeRose |Scott Simon

Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are digesting that one of their own is now the head of the Catholic Church.
Week in politics: U.S. stays away from new conflict, shakeup in Trump's appointees

4 days ago | kdnk.org | Scott Simon |Domenico Montanaro

The Trump administration is not eager to involve itself in international conflicts like the one between India and Pakistan.
How soap operas got their start in Chicago

4 days ago | kdnk.org | Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natalie Moore about the legacy of soap operas. She is host and writer of "Stories Without End," the new season of the WBEZ podcast "Making."
Tariffs force a rubber duck museum to move across the border to Canada

4 days ago | kdnk.org | Scott Simon |Martha Ann Overland

The Rubber Duck Museum in Pt. Roberts, Wash., is moving because Canadians are no longer coming to the border town. Neil and Krystal King tell NPR's Scott Simon why.
After lynx were spotted in the Scottish highlands, experts suspect 'rogue rewilding'

4 days ago | kdnk.org | Scott Simon

The reappearance of lynx in Scotland raised concern about an illegal reintroduction effort. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Peter Cairns of Scotland The Big Picture about what rogue rewilding entails. Copyright 2025 NPR
Opinion: My hometown pope

4 days ago | mainepublic.org | Scott Simon

Yes, I cried when I heard that Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago. And I thought of St. Peter's Church in Chicago's Loop, where I used to go to Mass now and then. It was usually a 5:30 Mass. Many attending were cleaning and maintenance people, already in their work clothes. They stopped in to pray on their way into work, as suit-wearing office workers from the skyscrapers passed them, heading home.