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What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride

David Cantwell The New Yorker
Charley Pride was one of the finest vocalists in country-music history, and among the genre’s most successful recording artists. He died last week, victim to COVID. This retrospective was written last year.

Georgia and its Long History of Voter Suppression

Jesse Jackson Chicago Sun-Times
Voters purged are likely to be “young voters, voters of lower income and citizens of racial groups that have been denied their sacred right to vote in the past,” a report from the Georgia American Civil Liberties Union states.

Revolutions of the Past and Future

Jackqueline Frost Radical Philosophy
Here is a study that seeks to offer insight into the writing of a great classic of revolutionary history.

Labor Unions Battle for Working-Class Georgians

Eli Day The American Prospect
A constellation of unions are promising to help elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia. SEIU has pledged to make three million calls and many other unions are making similar efforts.

Rouhani to Biden: If US Comes Back to Nuclear Deal, So Will Iran

Juan Cole Informed Comment
If Biden, on becoming president, lifts the US financial and trade blockade on Iran, Tehran will immediately return to scrupulously observing the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

We Are Not Done With Abolition

Eric Foner The New York Times
The framers of the 13th Amendment did not intend to establish an empire of prison labor.