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In the show Squid Game, the poor compete to the death for money to pay their debts. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with L.A. Times reporter Victoria Kim on the underground world of South Korea's loan sharks.

Mattress Firm, Claire's, Guitar Center are bankruptcy survivors going from a year of shuttered stores to planning a new life as publicly traded companies.

The future is uncertain for United Airlines after last week's denial by a federal panel of the carrier's request for $1.8 billion in loan guarantees. United seems likely to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Michael Levine, a Yale law professor and former airline executive.

Two key Biden administration ambassador nominees, Rahm Emanuel and Nicholas Burns, face the Senate to answer questions about U.S. policy in Asia.

A Navy report on the arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard concludes that there were sweeping failures by commanders, crew members and others that helped fuel the blaze.

Host Liane Hansen talks with Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, about the resignations of two members of President Bush's economic team and the re-election victory of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA).

This month, Weekend Edition Sunday is putting a question to people in the music community: What are the best albums that never made it to CD? The series continues with radio host and recording artist Laura Cantrell, Goldmine magazine editor Greg Loescher, and culture writer Mark Anthony Neal.

Commentator Neenah Ellis remembers Abraham Goldstein, who taught business law at Baruch Collage in New York from 1929 until this October, when he died at 103.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa and producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. about their reporting on the aftermath of the largest single-state immigration raid in U.S. history.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joseph Margulies, a criminal law expert, about how citizen's arrest laws factor into the trial of three white men charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.