I’ve always known that Iranian people deserve better than the oppression and the terror that they’ve survived.’’ ...

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Several top state and federal offices are up for grabs amid a period of crisis with few if any precedents in the state’s history.

Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the contemporary political anthem?