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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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Politics
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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Politics
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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World
Criticize This African Country’s Army and You Might Be Drafted
The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics,…
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Mongolians Are Circus Stars All Over the World, Except at Home
It’s cold as a walk-in refrigerator at the Mongolian Circus School, housed in a once proud edifice now on the…
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Business
Under Argentina’s New President, Fuel Is Up 60%, and Diaper Prices Have Doubled
Javier Milei warned that things would get worse before they got better. Now Argentines are living it.
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World
More Drones, Fewer Parks. Ukrainians Urge Spending Shift as War Drags On.
Protesters are lobbying city councils to freeze urban renewal projects and buy military equipment instead, part of a wider call…
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Sports
How a North Korean Soccer Prodigy Vanished, and Re-emerged
Han Kwang-song’s recent appearances in World Cup qualifiers were his first ones overseas since 2020, when U.N. sanctions led to…
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