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NPR Music presents 12 titles that range from the art of album covers to disco to Def Jam to metal to MTV. Our favorite music reads were mostly revealing biographies and wide-spanning analyses.

Linguist and New York Times columnist John McWhorter joins pianist Lara Downs to explore the history of American music as a joyful noise, even in the toughest times.

National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.

Georgetown professor Ella Washington and Harvard professor Frank Dobbin discuss the beneficiaries and misperceptions of DEI, and who will be hurt as it's dismantled across public and private sectors.

Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time -- but that's not how many cosmologists think of the Big Bang today.

Days after the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, there are signs other regional banks are vulnerable.

In the 1970s, threats of trade tariffs convinced Asian and European automakers to move some production to the U.S. But that battle's already been won – and history is unlikely to repeat itself.