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For online insurance brokers, selling health insurance through the Affordable Care Act presents a new opportunity — and a new competitor. It's unclear who will come out ahead: the businesses, with more experience, or the feds, who won't charge commissions.

On Tuesday, a key part of the Affordable Care Act is going live: People will be able to buy health insurance from new marketplaces in every state. Researchers and wonks will be intensely interested. Most of the rest of us will be clueless.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy Award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens about her new children's book, Build a House.

Young voter turnout increased in the last two elections, but a new NPR/Marist poll found that young voters were the least likely to vote in 2022. Young voters living in Milwaukee shared their views.

The population of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has fallen again. Scientists now estimate it stands at 340, the latest indication the whales are edging closer to extinction.

Republican wins in state supreme court races could not only shape abortion and voting rights, but also the balance of power in Washington.

NPR's A Martinez talks to freelance journalist Aisyah Llewellyn about emergency workers in Indonesia racing to locate people trapped under rubble after Monday's deadly earthquake.

Former Vice President Mike Pence tells Morning Edition that he and former President Donald Trump have gone "our separate ways." Pence looks back on pivotal moments and ahead to what he might do next.

One of the really big challenges facing our world is how to grow more food without using up the globe's land and water. One company in Ohio says we've been ignoring one solution: insects. It's using larvae of the black soldier fly to convert waste into feed for fish or pigs.

President Obama has been able to fill one opening on a key appeals court, but three more remain. And GOP senators are signaling that they'll block those remaining nominations, saying the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't really need that many judges.