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Telehealth – “Yassify Me”

All throughout their new album Green World Image, Seattle post-punks Telehealth pull off a brilliant pastiche of B-52s-style party-time new wave, weaving their oblong neon punk-funk grooves full of extremely topical lyrics about the plight of living in our degraded modern

Narrative warfare and shadowy shots at middle-power diplomacy

Modern geopolitical competition is increasingly shaped not only by military capabilities or economic leverage, but also by the ability to shape narratives. States now compete simultaneously across diplomatic, informational and psychological domains, where perception can

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Transcript: How Democrats Can Fix the Government in 2029

This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 13 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: We’re going to have a discussion that’s about democracy, but a little broader than the

16 Horsepower Reunite For First Show In 22 Years

In the '90s and '00s, the Denver-based band 16 Horsepower perfected their own grandly gothic form of country-rock. They were obsessed with religion and apocalypse, and frontman David Eugene Edwards had a leathery gravitas — like a version of Nick Cave who was actually American,