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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Is Here, and It’s Much More Than Country
The superstar’s new LP is a 27-track tour of popular music with a Beatles cover, cameos by Willie Nelson and…
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Business
Does Country Radio’s Treehouse Have Room for Beyoncé?
The pop superstar’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” could be a litmus test for a format that’s long been inhospitable to…
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Black Pop Artists Have Long Gone Country. Here’s a Brief History.
When Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” arrives next week, it’ll join a lineage of albums by stars including Ray Charles, the Pointer…
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My Country Is Witnessing a Messy, Buffoonish End of Rule
On Dec. 31, 1980, Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal, announced that he was leaving power. At 74,…
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Beyoncé Becomes First Black Woman to Top Billboard Country Chart
Her single “Texas Hold ’Em” debuted atop the country airplay chart after its release during the Super Bowl.
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World
Voters in Finland Will Choose a President to Shape a New NATO Era
The role is responsible for foreign policy in an era of rising wariness of neighboring Russia.
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World
Pakistan Is Stunned as Early Election Results Look Like a Real Race
The party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has withstood a crackdown by the country’s powerful military and put up…
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News
Toby Keith’s Pre-Partisan Patriotism
Toby Keith already had a string of country hits before he wrote the 2002 song that cemented his place in…
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What if Joe Biden Is Actually Right About 2024?
“What a sick … My God.” President Biden offered many eloquent turns of phrase on the importance and the fragility…
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Requiem for a Winterless Europe
Long before I knew his name, I knew Hendrick Avercamp’s paintings. They show a merry Christmassy world of funnily dressed…