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Rock critic Ken Tucker offers up his top 10 lists of the best albums and singles of 2008.music. Here's his look at some of his own favorites.

Host Melissa Block asks what the top Summer song of 2005 will be. Several reviewers offer their picks for the season's most popular country, hip hop and alternative rock songs, from The Killers, Sugarland and Rihanna.

A handful of teenagers, and a 12-year-old violinist, from the radio show From the Top, give sparkling performances, proving there's a bright future for classical music.

Coin tosses, a squeaker of a win and, perhaps even more surprising, humility. That's what characterized Monday night's Iowa caucuses, the first votes cast in the 2016 presidential election.

NPR's senior education correspondent offers his predictions for the big stories in K-12 and higher education.

Companies at the center of the deadly prescription opioid epidemic are close to deals that would cap their liability while funding drug treatment and recovery programs.

Former White House adviser Karen Hughes is appointed as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, where she will be charged with remaking the United States' image abroad.

It was a banner year for the acoustic guitar. NPR Music partner Folk Alley presents the best the genre had to offer.

In between impassioned speeches by political VIPs --- including former President Bill Clinton, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and 2024 Vice President candidate Tim Walz --- the heavy hitters of the music world lit up Chicago’s United Center arena. Night 3 was host to performances by Stevie Wonder, John Legend with Sheila E. and Maren Morris.

The stories that NPR's readers embraced range from news of President Trump's first year in D.C. to warnings about living in an "underslept state" and "What Living On $100,000 A Year Looks Like."