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This year artists working within the orbit of the unstable category "roots music" got personal even as they explored complex cultural lineages and challenged the rules of established scenes and forms.

Religious services. Birthday parties. Movie nights. Our usual routines and rituals may not be possible because of COVID-19. So humans are creating new ways to hold true to their past traditions.

Alabama is the only state where 4th-grade math scores are higher now than they were in 2019, before the pandemic. This is the story of how the state pulled it off.

Lawmakers focus on Biden's $1.9 trillion plan to fight the pandemic. The U.S.' vaccination pace is looking good. And, Russians try a new way of protesting in support of Alexei Navalny.

An exhibit at the Huntington Library shows visitors how famed science fiction writer Octavia Butler created a career for herself in a genre that had few women and even fewer African-Americans.

Wine retailer David Trone is spending $12.4 million of his own money to win a Maryland House seat, but his rivals say he's trying to buy his way into Congress.

These are the politics stories that drew in the most readers this year. And the top story is not about President Trump.

Tunde Wey wanted to share the food of his West African childhood. So he crossed the U.S. by bus, hosting pop-up dinners along the way. But Wey, like many immigrants, found success can unravel quickly.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia, about how presidents have exercised moral leadership in critical moments.

The career diplomat's memoir is a front row seat to the disinformation campaign that ultimately saw her removed from post, and offers insight into the post-Soviet Union politics of Russia and Ukraine.