NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: New Jersey pizza, the fuel of world champions
What do World Cup champions crave after a win? Pizza from an Orange, N.J., bagel shop. BXJ made 46 pies for the Spanish team after their victory.
NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: America is still a work in progress
Poets like Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes have written movingly about America.
NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: Ranch dressing is a winner at the World Cup games
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the popularity of ranch dressing among international visitors to the U.S. during the World Cup games.
NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: A lesson in humanity at the Boston Marathon
Two runners in this week's Boston Marathon stopped to help a racer who had collapsed just short of the finish line. NPR's Scott Simon says their generosity is its own kind of "personal best."
NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: A well-deserved statue for a hero rat
Cambodia is recognizing the life-saving contributions of a rat named Magawa with a statue. The late rat sniffed out landmines for a non-profit group, and in a short career helped find more than 100.
NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: Humanity's hopes ascended with Artemis II
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the successful launch of NASA's Artemis II this week. The four astronauts aboard will travel around the moon.
NPR (Deena Prichep) - Buttercream wool and jelly bean eyes: The art of the Easter lamb cake
The cakes – usually baked in the shape of a lamb using a special pan – have a long history in Central Europe, from the German osterlamm, to the Polish baranek wielkanocny, to the Alsatian lammele.
NPR (Scott Simon) - Ranking Member of House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith discusses the war on Iran
NPR's Scott Simon talks with House Armed Service Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., about the war on Iran, now a month old, and DHS funding.
NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: Lessons from a bad weather forecast
Residents in and around Washington braced themselves for damaging storms earlier this week, but turns out it was a forecast flop. One local meteorologist apologized.
NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: An ancient, sophisticated palate
Researchers looking at foodcrusts on the pottery shards of ancient humans say there's evidence of a wide variety of ingredients, indicating that they may have been experimenting with "recipes."