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Next week Medicare will begin enrollment for its new prescription drug benefit. With literally dozens of different enrollment plans available, Medicare unveiled a new Web site this week meant to simplify the process. But a new survey finds that it's going to take a lot more than a fancy computer program to help seniors sign up.

Rings of Power, set thousands of years before the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies, is Amazon's shot at a big, pop culture bending hit, with a budget estimated at least $100 million a season.

A new study shows the number of women and girls has surpassed the number of men and boys using the Internet. We hear some female students at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California talk about the sites they like to visit.

Amazon believes it can use robots to avoid adding more than half a million jobs in the next eight years, The New York Times reports. NPR's A Martinez speaks to Times reporter Karen Weise.

The warehouse employee helped organize a walkout to demand closure of the facility following several COVID-19 cases. Amazon fired him the same day, saying he violated quarantine and safety measures.

Tonight, public television will air "A Strong, Clear Vision," a documentary about Maya Lin, creator of the design for the Vietnam War Memorial. In conjunction with the broadcast, PBS has created a site on the World Wide Web to enable people to share their thoughts and experiences on the war. Like the wall of names on the Washington mall, the site is meant to serve as a kind of "blank space" where people can insert their own thoughts and feelings about a seminal event. NPR's Margot Adler has this report.

If you're a takeout or delivery customer, websites like Seamless and Grubhub are a marvel. Just type, click your order and the food is on its way. But if you're a restaurant, this shift to the web may not sit so well with you.

Also: the best books coming out this week; Mindy Kaling is writing another memoir; and Francine Prose explores dreams in literature.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to the U.N., about her career in foreign service and American diplomacy.

Labor organizing surged last year, led by Amazon and Starbucks. A Gallup poll found 71% of Americans approve of unions. Yet only 10% of workers belong to a union, as employers continue to fight back.