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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with political scientists Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky about how the recent Supreme Court immunity ruling -- and a second Trump presidency -- could affect the U.S.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Tim Ream, an experienced defender likely to be selected for the U.S. national team at this summer's World Cup, ahead of the announcement of the roster.

One hundred years ago this weekend, Italian-American Gaetano Bresci assasinated the King of Italy, Umerto I. Scott speaks with Robert Viscusi who is a professor of English at Brooklyn College and President of the Italian-American Writers Association about the event.

Commentator Martha Ann Overland lives in India, and takes her kids to the US Embassy Club swimming pool. She learns that the class and racial divisions that have become taboo on most American soil, are still openly practiced by Americans abroad.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

Jockey Jimmy Winkfield was the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, 100 years ago this year. For Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR's Howard Berkes reports on Winkfield's legacy and the history of African Americans in horseracing.

John Biewen of American RadioWorks reports on ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. Companies that profit from the Prison boom sponsor ALEC, which in turn lobbies for tougher sentencing - thus bringing more profits to the corrections industry and its suppliers.

-Susan speaks with William Boone, Chairman of the political science department at Clark-Atlanta University in Georgia, and Ronald Walters, professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Maryland about African American loyalty to the democratic party.

The Pentagon announced today that an Iraqui weapons depot destroyed by American troops after the Gulf war contained chemical weapons. Some American soldiers may have been exposed to the chemicals. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Carol Hall, manager of the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Program, for the American Red Cross about what Americans can do to prepare for a possible terrorist attack.