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Roboadvisers are online financial managers that are guided by an algorithm, not a broker. Increasingly, millennials are shunning the human touch in favor of these low-cost alternatives.

Security officials say the Paris attacks are an example why law enforcement needs to access encrypted data. Privacy advocates and the tech industry say such "back doors" are not the best solution.

Medicine's move into the computer age has great potential for improving care. But patients and doctors still face serious challenges in adapting to the rush of new technology.

Jesmyn Ward's new memoir Men We Reaped follows the lives and tragically early deaths of several young black men — Ward's brother among them. Reviewer Richard Torres says Ward is "talented enough to turn ... prose into poetry," but that she doesn't sugarcoat her terrible experiences.

President Bush plans to make health care the centerpiece of his domestic agenda this year, say aides. But unlike former President Clinton, who wanted to put more emphasis on employer-provided coverage, Bush wants to put more emphasis on individual responsibility for health care.

Author Breena Clarke's latest book, Stand the Storm, uncovers the often forgotten history of African-Americans in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood. Host Jacki Lyden visits Georgetown's historic Mount Zion United Methodist Church for a conversation with Clarke and several Mount Zion members about their roots in the neighborhood.

Autocracy, Inc. author Anne Applebaum says that today’s dictators — including Putin and Xi — are working together in a global fight to dismantle democracy, and Trump is borrowing from their playbook.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Kent Walker, Google president of global affairs and chief legal officer, about the Justice Department proposal to force Google to sell Chrome -- among other actions.

Former Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin reveals private conversations with former President Joe Biden and explains his most controversial stances in his new memoir Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense.

In Season 2 of Beef, Isaac plays Josh, a country club manager whose life is unravelling. He got into character by imagining how Victor Frankenstein would feel trapped inside Josh's "small life."