Love, Death, and Country Music

Washington Post, by Jonathan Yardley - Country music made between about 1950 and 1970 is a secret history of rural, working class Americans in the twentieth century — a secret history in plain sight. . . . Country music knows that the dark heart of the American Century beat in oil-field roadhouses [...]

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Fair play for the CIA

Times - The Cold War was fought on many fronts, but most of us think of it taking place on the battleground of covert action and espionage. There, the Soviet Union had home-field advantage: war was in the air in 1948, and many felt it might be lost almost before it began.

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Republicans admit Obama is winning the online battle

Guardian - Barack Obama’s campaign’s superiority in its use of the internet as a political tool in the US presidential race was underlined in by a new media conference in New York yesterday, where senior Republican advisers admitted their party had become complacent in the past four years and lost the initiative.

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