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WBGO’s Lee Mergner recommends jazz tracks tied to the Fourth of July holiday.

NPR Music's pop critic says her favorite albums of this tumultuous year demonstrated the value of embracing fragility and vulnerability.

Centrist senator Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia's presidency with 54% of the vote, ending 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party amid economic turmoil.

NPR talks with Majed Al Ansari, adviser to Qatar's prime minister and official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about Israeli strikes on Qatar targeting Hamas officials.

Ian Eisendrath worked from the story's conception to make the music stand out and tell a story. The movie's hit song "Golden" is up for Best Original Song at this weekend's Golden Globes.

The NPR Music critic and All Songs Considered contributor's favorite records of the year include the best of British rap, whimsical and melancholy electronic experiments and spellbinding dreampop.

Across the country, including in swing states, people have been priced out of buying homes. Record numbers are finding rent unaffordable. Biden and Trump have very different ideas for how to fix it.

A new survey of Americans across all income brackets captures some surprising views about their economic experience and expectations of success.

Some years these polls aren't even close, but this time it was a tight race for our listeners' top five most popular albums of 2016.

A full-blown congressional debate on the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts will unfold this fall, but some lawmakers have already weighed in on the most controversial issue: whether it makes sense, at a time of huge budget deficits, to extend tax relief for those earning more than $250,000.