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Kelefa Sanneh

Reporter · US

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Aug 31, 2026
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Jul 19, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Kelefa Sanneh

    Who’s Afraid of A.I. Music? (opens the original)

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    Earlier this summer, a small night club in Passaic, New Jersey, hosted a brief performance by one of the year’s most talked-about musicians. A post on Instagram had promised attendees “an unforgettable night,” although not necessarily a long one: the only assurance was that the Los Angeles rapper known as Fenix Flexin would be “performing his viral hit ‘Rubberz’ live!” Until recently, Fenix was known for high-spirited and slightly mush-mouthed hip-hop tracks, but “Rubberz,” whi

  2. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Kelefa Sanneh

    Melissa Auf der Maur’s Chronicle of Nineties Rock (opens the original)

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    Thirty-two years ago, in the summer of 1994, Courtney Love staged a remarkable comeback. Earlier that year, her band, Hole, had released a furious and galvanizing album called “Live Through This,” but it had arrived in shops only four days after Love’s husband, Kurt Cobain, had been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A few months after that, Hole’s bass player, Kristen Pfaff, died from a heroin overdose. And so, when Love appeared onstage at the Reading Festival, in August, no

  3. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Kelefa Sanneh

    The Myth of the Food Desert (opens the original)

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    Earlier this year, on Fox News, Laura Ingraham sat down with a pair of Cabinet secretaries to talk about the Trump Administration’s plans to improve the way Americans eat. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, unveiled an updated, inverted food pyramid, with meat at the top and whole grains at the bottom, and he explained that “highly refined carbohydrates” were “literally poisoning” America’s children. (He also confessed, or maybe bragged, that he hadn’t had a doug

  4. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Kelefa Sanneh

    How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope (opens the original)

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    “The sun is hot,” Alan Jackson sings, accompanied by a trio of jaunty guitars (electric, acoustic, and pedal steel), and for a moment this sounds like a celebration. Instead, it turns out to be the beginning of a complaint: The sun is hot and that old clock is moving slowAnd so am IWorkday passes like molasses in wintertimeBut it’s July. The guy in the song has a job that he hates, and has a plan—or, perhaps, a daydream of a plan—to knock off early and grab a drink. In the chorus, he makes up hi

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