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President Joe Biden is unveiling a $2 trillion infrastructure proposal that the administration says will create jobs and build new roads and bridges, and improves broadband, water quality, schools, and more. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is traveling in Iowa during the Easter Recess, says he has read about only some of the basics of what’s being called the American Jobs Plan.

Georgia's new Republican-backed election law isn't the only major voting change in the works. We look at efforts in Arizona to limit how people vote.

The massing of Chinese ships around a contested reef in the South China Sea is drawing unusual attention. The Philippines fired off a diplomat protest calling on China to withdraw some 180 vessels.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Celine Gounder, who was on the Biden Coronavirus Transition Advisory Board, about the race to get Americans vaccinated as COVID-19 cases increase.

The case tests whether the NCAA's limits on compensation for student athletes violate antitrust law. Its outcome could have enormous consequences for college sports.

Critics say in many states the legal marijuana boom hasn't benefited people of color. Lawmakers in New York say their approach avoids those mistakes.

Organizers say abolishing the 60-vote procedural hurdle is a way to follow through on electoral promises. But Republicans insist the maneuver isn't racist — and note its past use by Democrats.

In conversation with host Felix Contreras.

Over the past few years, Sam Sifton has become a proponent of what he calls "no-recipe recipes."

We discuss the highly anticipated games in March Madness, as well as the continued player-driven protest movement against the inequities in college basketball.