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Aug
Note: ‘Along the Banks of Rivers’
111 MHz: ‘Along the Banks of Rivers.’ From the mid-1990s, here’s Chicago’s Tortoise, off their album Millions
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29
Aug
Shadows and fog
Why is violent crime down in the U.S.? Tracey Meares on what’s happening, what Americans think is happening, and how much anyone actually knows about it at all.
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28
Aug
Note: It’s the data, stupid
It’s the data, stupid. In a Washington, D.C., courtroom on August 5, District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that
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27
Aug
Note: New sway for the nationalist right in Europe
New sway for the nationalist right in Europe. Across the continent in June and July, far-right parties kept doing
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27
Aug
Note: ‘Bonneville Park 4’
111 MHz: ‘Bonneville Park 4.’ Here we go in a contemporary classical direction with Devin Maxwell’s Timebending—with Christine
27
Aug
‘An existential question’
What does the recent success of the far right at the polls mean for Europe? Matthias Matthijs on the continent’s new political mainstream.
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26
Aug
Note: The paranoid style in American politics (2024)
The paranoid style in American politics (2024). Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the U.S. presidential race last
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23
Aug
‘The Sentinel State’
The Sentinel State. Chinese society has undergone radical, at times tumultuous, change since Mao Zedong established the communist People’s
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Aug
Note: ‘First Idea Part One’
111 MHz: ‘First Idea Part One.’ The four musicians of 137 are veterans of the post-jazz groups Portishead and
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Aug
Note: Tremors in Tokyo
Tremors in Tokyo. On August 14, not even three years into his term, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced
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