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Under a system like "Medicare for All," there are questions about job loss and older insurance workers. Studies show that job retraining is less effective for older workers.

NPR's David Greene speaks with Rafael Velasquez, an aid worker with Mercy Corps, about the humanitarian crisis facing Beirut following a massive explosion.

Nearly two years after the Trump administration told U.S. telecom providers to replace Chinese equipment for national security reasons, they're still waiting on federal guidance and funding.

President Biden is set to give his first address to a foreign — yet familiar — audience at the virtual Munich Security Conference on Friday.

As she takes the helm of the World Trade Organization, the former Nigerian finance minister faces challenges from COVID-19 response to navigating trade frictions between the U.S. and China.

Myanmar's military coup has the international community debating what can be done to reverse it. Analysts say the military doesn't play by normal rules and probably won't start now.

How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity might be the year's first essential new book. NPR's Renita Jablonski picks up the book, and her cat, to see if he has what it takes to be a star on the Web.

The U.S. government will borrow all of the money used to pay for the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. That kind of borrowing used to set off major alarms with economists. Now? Not so much.

NPR's Noel King talks to USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan about the gender equity gap exposed by the NCAA's March Madness tournaments, and what should be done about it.

Middle- and upper-class residents of the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, are protesting the rising violence and lawlessness in the region. Amy Isackson of member station KPBS reports on the high crime rate, and how hundreds of locals are rallying against it.