I’m not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that’s easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the ...

A closer look at Japan’s maximalist web design shows how cultural values and practical needs create an online world richer ...

Were any potential all-time great pictures made this year? Perhaps Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value has a shot. It does remarkably well in capturing one family’s relationship in somewhat universal ...

We meander through the woods, the whine of mosquitoes in our ears. Mendes plays owl calls—they sound like the squeaks of a ...

Written by Maya Salam and Stephanie Goodman. Staff voters: Salam, Goodman, Sarah Bahr, Brooks Barnes, Kyle Buchanan, Barbara ...

Vote now! Girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, and girls wrestling athletes are up for the Martin Dentistry Athlete of the Week for Dec. 1-6.

And 2025 was the year it went mainstream. It now feels like no one is safe. Previously we assumed that Hollywood will always ...

There are 18 National Parks in Maryland as well as an additional 10 affiliated sites that partner with the National Park ...

From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the best songs of 2025.

With an awards season and year-end lists that tend to favor films that have been released in the last few months, many things ...

Copilot integration in Microsoft 365 apps makes it a snap to generate first drafts, revise text, and get instant summaries for long docs or email threads. Here’s how to use Copilot for writing ...

The incentives in music journalism say it makes economic sense to cover popular artists. But loving music isn’t about making ...