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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 women and Black artists.
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Arts
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 Sisters, Tina Turner and more.
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World
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, he felt that his time was up. When courtiers tried to convince him to reverse his decision, he reportedly replied, with a smile: “Don ...
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Arts
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 a fight.
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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 the then-burgeoning culture wars: “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American).” He later said the song was written in 20 minutes as ...
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World
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 of democracy in his well-crafted campaign kickoff speech on Friday near Valley Forge, Pa. But it was this brief, unfinished aside — off ...
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World
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 people disporting themselves on frozen canals: paintings I knew from jigsaw puzzles and holiday cards. Here was a young couple ...
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Magazine
Willie Nelson’s Sense of Style
“Roll me up and smoke me when I die,” Willie Nelson sang from the stage of the Hollywood Bowl during his 90th birthday celebration in April. As usual, Mr. Nelson looked very much at ease. He was wearing a cowboy hat over a red bandanna, and his hair ...
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