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With presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holding a steady lead in key battleground states, Democrats led by President Obama are turning their attention to down ballot races. From Congress to the legislatures, the party is at a low water mark they hope to correct before Obama leaves office.

A former punk rocker, a former mayor and a multilingual epidemiologist are among the six nominees vying for the top job at the World Health Organization.

The last time we heard from Sara Goldrick-Rab, her business cards read "professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison." This time around, she has a different title. The outspoken educator announced in March that she would leave the flagship UW school, for a position at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her decision came after the UW Board of Regents approved a new tenure policy – a large-scale change that Goldrick-Rab called “poisonous” to the system. And just last month, Goldrick-Rab earned another new accolade. POLITICO magazine named her one of the top 50 thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016. Her contribution: “Sparking a national conversation about college affordability.” That’s the subject of the professor’s latest book, Paying the Price. Now halfway through her first semester at Temple, Goldrick-Rab returned to Milwaukee late last month to promote the book, as well as her transition from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania.

AT&T positions itself as the future competitor to cable, promising an era of experimentation and innovation. But consumer advocates raise a raft of concerns. Regulators will weigh both sides.

The world's top financial officials were in Washington, D.C. over the weekend for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The partial government shutdown and the debt ceiling standoff were hot topics among the visiting world financial leaders.

President Obama with Rose Garden appearance looks for major reset of problem-plagued rollout of his signature health care legislation

Running a hospital that scores well on keeping more patients alive or providing extensive charity care doesn't translate into a compensation bump for top executives. Nonprofit hospitals have been under scrutiny for paying high salaries to chief executives while skimping on benefits for their communities.

As Oklahoma enters its fourth year of sustained drought, some farmers expect the harvest to be so bad they'll end up calling their insurance agents and declaring this year a total loss. StateImpact Oklahoma's Joe Wertz reports that some are calling this the worst drought since the '50s — or even since the Dust Bowl.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century evokes another famous tome with "capital" in its title, and makes comparisons inevitable.

Did late-season baseball get more exciting or more absurd with the addition of a second wild card post-season slot? NPR's Mike Pesca talks with host Rachel Martin about the manufactured buzz of the wild card race.