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Albums of the Week: Hard Luck Stories (1972-1982), The Universal Want, Encounter Peace

Albums of the Week: Hard Luck Stories (1972-1982), The Universal Want, Encounter

This week’s three new releases include a box set collection from folk-rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson, a belter of a new record by Doves and pianist Igor Levit’s lockdown recitals.Richard and Linda Thompson: Hard Luck Stories (1972-1982) This exhaustive box set (eight CDs or a “big download”) tells the story…
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September 25, 2020
Malawi: Malawi’s President Appeals to Investors, Implores South African Farmers to ‘Invest In Our Soil’ Peace

Malawi: Malawi’s President Appeals to Investors, Implores South African Farmers to ‘Invest In Our Soil’

New York — With the world focused on fighting the pandemic, a remarkable achievement went largely unnoticed in Africa. A court in Malawi annulled a rigged election and a peaceful rerun ushered into power a popular opposition. In June, the country’s 19 million citizens went back to the polls and…
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September 22, 2020
Supreme Court Justices mourn the death but praise the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Peace

Supreme Court Justices mourn the death but praise the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait on Nov. 30, 2018. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) Associated Press Ruth Bader Ginsburg's colleagues on the US Supreme Court on Saturday released statements about her death and legacy. Ginsburg, who spent 27 years as an associate justice on the…
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September 19, 2020
An Increased Minimum Wage Translates To Maximum Hardship Only In A Failed State By Abdulkadir Salaudeen Peace

An Increased Minimum Wage Translates To Maximum Hardship Only In A Failed State By Abdulkadir Salaudeen

There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigerians are languishing in their country as if in maximum prison. They feel like dying in the face of unmitigated hunger. They earnestly plead to the angel of death to terminate their souls which seem not worthy of existence. Or what is the…
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September 19, 2020
Into It. Over It. Peace

Into It. Over It.

After taking a four-year enforced hiatus, Into It. Over It. - the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer, Evan Thomas Weiss - is back with his new album, 'Figure'. The Chicago native’s fourth LP under the Into It. Over It. moniker, released via Big Scary Monsters, feels like the arrival of…
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September 18, 2020