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World Cafe's contributing host shines a spotlight on the brilliant artists who provided the soundtrack to an eventful year.

Croatia does it again - winning a penalty kick shootout to advance to the semifinals for the second World Cup, eliminating Brazil. Croatia's defense stymied the 5-time champions the entire match.

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean insists he will not drop out of the Democratic presidential race if he loses Tuesday's primary in Wisconsin. But a top Dean campaign aide is planning to offer his help to frontrunner John Kerry, if Dean doesn't win in Wisconsin. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards.

A commission on Abu Ghraib prison abuses, headed by former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, finds fault throughout the chain of military command and in Washington. Top leaders are criticized for failing to provide adequate resources to the prison. Hear Schlesinger and NPR's Robert Siegel.

Eugene documented 70 percent more reports of hate and bias activity in 2017 compared to the year before, and race remains the leading motivating factor behind such activity.

Majerle Lister lives part-time with his grandmother on the Navajo Nation reservation. He's driven by social justice issues and, after backing Bernie Sanders, is reluctantly supporting Hillary Clinton.

As the Jan. 6 hearings have played out, there has been only some, if any, movement in people's views of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but independents' views have changed since a December poll.

NPR's pop critic and correspondent shares her favorite albums of this year.

"The monks are all safe, but our hearts go immediately to those affected, say the Benedictine monks of Norcia.

The All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk host shares his favorite recordings of the year.