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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…

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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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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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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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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…

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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…

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