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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Anthony Foxx, Lyft's chief policy officer, about the ongoing debate over classifying drivers as independent contractors and the economic impact of the pandemic.

With a closely divided Congress, which could include Republicans holding the Senate, President-elect Joe Biden's economic agenda may depend a lot on what his incoming administration can do on its own.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Daryle Williams, an associate history professor at the University of Maryland, about the Enslaved.org initiative aimed at documenting the lives of enslaved people.

The 2020 holiday office party is going to look different this year, with big in-person events a no-go and most people working remotely. So some employers are finding ways to party on.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Liz Dozier, former high school principal and CEO of Chicago Beyond, about relying less on School Resource Officers and more on counseling programs to improve security.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with China expert Adrian Zenz about his research uncovering evidence of birth prevention and mass female sterilization of Uighur Muslims in China.

A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched to sell Eau de Space to the public — an aroma recreated by NASA decades ago to help astronauts acclimate to space during training.

Lawsuits against the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test requirement for private employers have been filed in almost every federal appeals court. One court will be randomly chosen to hear the case.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to conservative Washington Post columnist George Will, who says it's not enough for President Trump to lose in the 2020 election, his congressional enablers have to go too.

Topics on the table: The issue of liability waivers, an at-risk faculty, the costs of implementing social distancing measures, and the necessity and economic pressure to have in-person classes.