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Jim Crace's superb new novel is a trickster — it seems to be a bittersweet tale of late-life love, but then it becomes a meditation on gentrification and the toll poverty can take on human beings.

Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders is off to Indiana and Iowa to sell voters on the $3.5 trillion spending plan. His goal is to convince them that big federal spending can improve their lives.

Former fight choreographer Sebastien de Castell's debut novel is a little heavy on the swordplay — but the story of a disgraced king's guard fighting for honor and justice packs plenty of punch.

Richard Powers' new novel follows an avant-garde composer who has sacrificed everything in his pursuit of transcendent music — and who gets into trouble when he attempts to combine his twin obsessions of music and chemistry. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Powers hits a high note with Orfeo.

The Supreme Court says it will hear arguments next year on the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions.

NPR'S Leila Fadel speaks with Fenway Summer managing partner Raj Date about the impact on consumers of the proposed merger between Capital One and Discover Financial Services.

Jeff Bezos' Medium post accusing the National Enquirer's publisher of extortion continues. Bezos said American Media Inc. demanded Bezos drop a private investigation, or deal with embarrassing photos.

Medicaid work requirements are a prominent feature of the big federal budget bill, but working full time can jeopardize some people's health coverage.

For President Biden's legacy, we should look to late President Jimmy Carter's history in Central America.

People who live in one of the nation's most toxic areas for air pollution -- known as Cancer Alley -- have lost the ability to sue for protection from environmental racism.