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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Federal Election Commission chair Ellen Weintraub about the FEC's lack of a quorum and how that might affect the upcoming election cycle.

The CDC says it is probing 450 reported cases of illness in people who vaped nicotine or cannabis products. Health officials say it's too soon to pinpoint a single product or substance as the cause.

As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross retreated into silence for a year. As an adult, she set out to understand why people speak, and why they don't, in a new book.

Leaders in Dublin have declared that unemployment in Ireland is finally dropping, especially among youth. The reason there are fewer young people looking for jobs, however, is because many have simply left the country.

The Obama administration is renewing its sales push for the president's signature health care law. On Wednesday, officials host a "youth summit" at the White House, where young people will be encouraged to sign up for insurance coverage. Their participation is crucial to help balance out the cost of insuring older, sicker people.

There's been a lot of maneuvering this week between the Obama administration and Congress over the Affordable Care Act. NPR's Julie Rovner joins guest host Don Gonyea with the play-by-play, and discusses what's next in the ongoing Obamacare saga.

We continue our Project Milwaukee series: Black & White, examining race relations in the city.We discovered a group that gathers once a month specifically…

Coates writes about race and social issues for The Atlantic. His new book, Between the World and Me, brings to bear his fear that his life and the lives of his loved ones might end unnaturally.

Mark Osterman, a photographic process historian, embraces digital imaging, but laments that there will be fewer physical images in the future.

Fifty years ago this week, race riots broke out in Watts, a Los Angeles neighborhood. Renee Montagne talks to author Walter Mosley about his memories of that time.