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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.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Christine Platt, author of The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living With Less, about how to declutter and why it's especially important for communities of color.

Rising energy prices in Europe have forced some Italians to turn to abandoned cooking methods. One Tuscan village is using wool to insulate cooking boxes that slow-cook food with less energy.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Jas Hammonds about their new book, "We Deserve Monuments."

On the same day a trial got underway in Texas over InfoWars host Alex Jones' false claims related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a hearing was held in the defamation lawsuit filed against Jones in Connecticut by some Sandy Hook families.

It took about an hour and 14 minutes from when officers arrived at the school to when they breached the door and ended the standoff with the gunman.

The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with three nurses from around the country about how the omicron variant has affected their work and what their year has been like on the front lines of the pandemic.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Uvalde, Texas, city manager Vince DiPiazza about where his community is three months after the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary.

Nearly half of Connecticut’s high earners say they might leave the state in the next five years because of the state’s budget crisis and a ballooning...