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It's time again for our annual collection, in no particular order, of 50 wonderful pop-culture things from 2016. Read them, watch them, or listen to them; we think something will delight you.

This list tackles history in the making, celebrating women and non-binary musicians whose songs are redefining genres and attitudes and changing our sense of what popular music can be in this century.

The teen idol and massively successful solo singer's tabloid life paled in comparison to his uncommonly soulful work.

Our friends at NPR Music bring us their weekly roundup of new music from this week, including a song from Khalid's new album, Sincere.

Polls show a growing number of Americans feel the United States is giving too much aid to Ukraine. That's helped lead to calls for more scrutiny of how the aid is being used.

On subjects familiar (Beethoven's Fifth) and obscure (notoriously tight-lipped cult artists), our favorite writing about music dove deep and showed us new ways to love the sounds in our lives.

Now that most Christmas songs and albums have been packed away into the proverbial attic, the pop landscape of the new year is coming into focus.

Sunday's VMAs were the first time the awards show has been broadcast on CBS in addition to MTV. The show recognized rising stars and longtime icons alike.

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks to Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, who is this year's guest editor of the Oxford AmericanSouthern Music Issue.

Electoral College votes to affirm Biden's election victory. Attorney General Barr is leaving the Justice Department. Plus, more shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine will be arriving across the U.S.

The NPR Movies Team picks the 12 films they're most looking forward to seeing — movies that will likely end up in theaters or on streaming services sometime in the next few months.

We review Trump's speech with Scott Detrow and talk to Sebastian Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president, who gives his take on the president's speech to Congress and his approach to terrorism.

The resignation of the U.S. Census Bureau's director, John Thompson, months before his term was to expire stunned the statistical community and raised anxieties about the 2020 count.

The story of 2013's wild-haired teenage pop phenomenon has more than a few parallels with the 1991 emergence of grunge kingpins Nirvana, but recast for the millennial age.

It's been 50 years since Bob Dylan strolled on stage at the Newport Folk Festival, plugged in an electric guitar, and infuriated his flock. Historian Elijah Wald says there's much more to the story.

Working with a new band and deep into the making of a new record with collaborator Terrace Martin, Herbie Hancock finds himself in conversation with his own visions of the future, now 40 years old.

Trump's legal team argued that accepting election information from foreign sources does not violate federal laws. Democrats called the assertion shocking.

Television has made enormous strides toward respectability and seriousness in the last 15 years or so, but it's gotten addicted to bloody violence.

The news that Karl Rove will not be prosecuted in the CIA leak investigation ends months of speculation surrounding the man known as the 'architect' or 'boy genius' for his successful management of President Bush's campaigns -- and for crafting a presidential grand strategy for conservatism in the 21st century.

A candidate challenge against Republican U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina has been blocked by a Trump-appointed federal judge, but questions about his qualifications to serve — and the ripple effects of his own impolitic statements — might hurt his reelection bid.