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Jan
Note: ‘VFS’
111 MHz: ‘VFS.’ Some liminal, spooky music, from the debut record of the London artist who goes by Partial Defrag.
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15
Jan
Note: The price of China’s trade success
The price of China’s trade success. In 2024, China posted a trade surplus of almost US$1 trillion, according
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14
Jan
Waking up alone
Where does the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad leave Iran? Vali Nasr on the swift and unexpected transformation of power in the Middle East.
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14
Jan
Note: ‘Aey Nehin’
111 MHz: ‘Aey Nehin.’ From the Pakistani singer and musician Arooj Aftab’s May 2024 album Night Reign, a beguiling
13
Jan
Note: ‘Japan in the American Century’
5 W Main: Japan in the American Century. Earlier this month, U.S. President Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s
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09
Jan
Note: ‘Port Gentil’
111 MHz: ‘Port Gentil.’ In 1996, Thomas Köner and Andy Mellwig released one of the cornerstone classics of the dub
08
Jan
Note: From revolution to civil war to genocide
From revolution to civil war to genocide. The U.S. State Department just published a report finding that Sudan’s
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07
Jan
Mother of exiles
A year after record increases in American homelessness, it’s now gone up even more—why? Dennis Culhane on the immigration crisis playing out in U.S. cities.
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07
Jan
Note: ‘Solaris’
111 MHz: ‘Solaris.’ In 2021, when so many of us were stuck at home, Kevin Richard Martin—who records as
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Dec
Note: ‘Lapis Manalis’
111 MHz: ‘Lapis Manalis.’ The Dutch DJ and producer Thessa Torsing, who records as upsammy, is back with Strange Meridians,