Search results for

Ann Powers picks her favorite chart-topping, radio-dominating songs of 2012.

The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

A Congressional primary in Brooklyn has brought longstanding distrust between African-American and Caribbean-American communities. Congressman Major Owens, who is black, is being challenged in tomorrow's primary by a Jamaican-born city council member, Una Clarke, who claims Owens has ignored the growing Caribbean influx in the district. Beth Fertig from member station WNYC reports.

Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, started out in Argentina as a slogan chanted by thousands protesting the murders of young women. It eventually spawned a women's rights movement across Latin America.

Not to be outdone by its fellow Top 10 listmakers, KEXP presents its Top 11 debut albums of the year. Seattle's Fleet Foxes headlines a deep class of great rock, pop, disco, hip-hop, folk and electro-dance records.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.

Professor of philanthropy Una Osili and Executive Director of the Greater DC Diaper Bank Corinne Cannon answer listener questions about how best to give back during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor of philanthropy Una Osili and Executive Director of the Greater DC Diaper Bank Corinne Cannon answer more listener questions about how best to give back during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 1,200 people have been charged for crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and investigators are building cases against more suspects.

Staffers at Bloomberg News accused editors of spiking an investigative story to avoid the wrath of the Communist Party. But analysts say accusations of self-censorship go far beyond this one case. One American academic compares China's censorial authority to a "giant anaconda" — its mere presence enough to make people limit their behavior.