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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…

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…

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,…

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.

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.

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…

World

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…

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…

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…

Health

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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