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If you want to build a new home, you want an architect who can take your lifestyle and design a home around it. When it comes to building an…

Drug plans offered by private insurers under Medicare change from year to year. It pays to check around for the best deal during open enrollment season.

People heading to the library to pick up paper copies of federal tax forms are disappointed to find many of them aren’t there this year.The IRS is saving…

The scenario: Someone has spotted oil on Lake Michigan in the Straits of Mackinac. They place a call to an emergency response center.What happens…

Dr. Abraham Nussbaum, author of a book examining the drive toward standardized quality measures and checklists, says he fears medicine is becoming just another job and not the calling it should be.

Consumers in nine states expect to receive millions in rebates from their health insurers on this year's premiums because insurers did not hit a spending target for medical care. But consumer advocates say most insurers should be able to meet the spending rule.

Comic artist Dan Clowes takes a new direction in his latest graphic novel — which starts with a rare moment of happiness for its main characters. Does it last? Spoiler alert: No.

Jennifer Haigh's novel explores the fallout of the natural gas boom in a small Pennsylvania town. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Heat and Light an "exquisitely designed, semi-satirical social novel."

In his new book, Al Gore argues that consumers have "all the tools we need" to solve climate change. But unless the United States takes a leadership role, "it would be impossible to resolve this crisis," he tells NPR.

This week's selection of what NPR correspondents, editors and producers are reading online includes a prison story and a baseball tale.