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STARTING ANEW: Now that Republicans have stripped Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney of her leadership role, might she become an independent? Cheney gives a press conference.

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POLITICS It’s Time to Party Liz Cheney’s ouster from Republican leadership makes a third political party more likely

in a voice vote in may, republicans and a massive infrastructure program that could stripped the important role of House Re- further prop up the economy is in the works. publican Conference leader from Wyoming Rep- What about 2024? In his ﬁrst press conference resentative Liz Cheney, following her outspoken on March 25, Biden said it was his “expectation” repudiation of former President Donald Trump’s to run but conceded there was some uncertainty. baseless claims of election fraud. In so doing, the He’ll be 82 years old, nine years older than Ronald GOP continues to make it abundantly clear for the Reagan was when reelected. Before then, Biden will foreseeable future it is the party of Trump. have to navigate the midterm elections and, per- Which raises a question: Might Cheney, along haps, two years of a hostile Congress. By then, Dem- with other prominent Republicans on the outs with ocrats may well be clamoring to give Vice President the party because they have withheld fealty to the Kamala Harris or another more progressive and former president, mount their next youthful candidate a shot at leading <

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the country’s voting processes favor networks, and donor and voter lists major parties, and that new parties which they can deploy to target and are crushed by the fundraising and bombard voters with messages aimed voter-outreach infrastructures the at keeping them in line. two major parties have built over Many experts and politicians more than 150 years. But several believe that machinery can be over- countries with voting systems like come with the right candidate armed the U.S.’s have effective third parties, with the right policy mix and backed including the U.K., Canada, India and by savvy marketing, especially in a the Philippines. progressive-versus-Trumpian face- off. Right now, they say, that strate- Mixed History gy would involve loudly embracing the u.s. isn’t entirely an exception. broadly popular economic programs In the nineteenth century, important such as a higher minimum wage, in- third parties were plentiful. They increasing spending on education, and cluded the Know-Nothing Party, the modestly expanding Medicare cov- Free Soil Party, and the Whig Party. erage—while quietly taking vaguely The latter was eventually knocked middle-of-the-road views on hot-but- out of contention by an even newer ton cultural issues that tend to divide third party called the Republican voters, such as defending women’s Party, led by a former Whig Congress- right to choose but only up to a cer- man from Illinois named Abraham tain point in a pregnancy, supporting Lincoln. Since then, the only truly the right to own guns but beefing up competitive third-party presidential background checks, calling for ef- run came in 1912, when former two- forts to crack down on police racism term President Theodore Roosevelt while objecting to defunding depart- lost the Republican nomination to ments, and limiting immigration but William Howard Taft and formed supporting dreamer-type programs. the Progressive Party in order to “There are ways to finesse some of run, coming in second to Democrat these issues to avoid drawing atten- Woodrow Wilson. tion to them,” says Thomas Patterson, The only two third-party runs a professor at Harvard University’s in modern politics to attract more Kennedy School of Government. “You than a tiny share of votes were Ross can talk about law and order without Perot’s Reform Party in 1992, which sounding like a white supremacist.” that the effort is spinning up again. garnered just under 20 percent of the That’s the sort of strategy that both The party has targeted seven of the vote, and George Wallace’s American Jolly’s Serve America Movement and state’s 80 districts, and if it can win Independent Party, which in 1968 Campbell’s Common Sense Party those elections it will have enough pulled in about 14 percent of the vote. are planning to enlist in 2022 and votes to swing most state legislation. Perot’s centrist run, which drew 2024. Campbell has been focusing At that point the party will start tar- almost equally from both major par- on state-legislative elections in Cal- geting other states and even elections ties, is often taken as proof of concept ifornia for now, where he says the for national office, with the goal of for modern third parties, especially biggest barrier to running as an in- gaining some high-profile wins that given the fact that he was leading dependent is the up-front one of get- build the party’s credibility and sway. the race early on but gave away his ting on the ballot by getting 73,000 Jolly’s party is using high-tech data momentum when he temporarily voters to register for the party. “We tools that he says Silicon Valley com- dropped out of the race midway. Still, were signing up 10,000 voters a panies are making available to him the two major parties have access to month before the pandemic hit and in order to punch above the party’s vast levels of funding, staff, volunteer we had to shut down,” he says, adding weight when it comes to targeting

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will dismiss a third-party candidate as someone who can’t win and isn’t worth wasting a vote on, even if they like the candidate’s positions. It could be difficult convincing real contenders to abandon a major party—especially given how relatively easy it is to simply throw one’s hat in the ring of a major party’s pri- maries. What’s more, notes William Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, Democratic candidates in particular might fear that jumping to a third party and siphoning away Democratic votes could uninten- tionally open the door to their worst nightmare. “The specter of Trump holding onto power has united the Democrats for now,” says Frey. “If Trump runs again, the same might happen.” But the Trump-unites-Democrats theory may not hold if the Democrats go too boldly progressive heading into 2024. The resulting gap could invite a third-party run from one of Congress’s highly visible moderate Democrats, such as Arizona Senator voters. “We think voters are ready to one like that in order to get enough Kyrsten Sinema, or an anti-Trump split evenly between Democrat, Re- early momentum to overcome Re- moderate Republican like Illinois publican and independent,” he says. publicans’ and Democrats’ advantag- Rep. Adam Kinzinger—or even “All we have to do is establish a brand es.” Without a well-known, riveting from a celebrity like actor Matthew and front a candidate with name rec- character to front the party and make McConaughey, who has already ex- ognition.” a quick splash, he says, most voters pressed interest in the Texas govern- < 7 7

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MISINFORMATION MONITOR acknowledgment that VAERS publishes unconfirmed data. However, these warnings, where they exist, Gaming an Early are often overshadowed by tactics such as misleading headlines or fearful questions. Warning System As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout How a well-intended U.S. government database continues, or in some cases gets fuels dangerous vaccine misinformation underway, other countries are like- wise relying on their own adverse event monitoring systems. How- ever, according to NewsGuard’s on april 30, 2021, the website “How come a 2 year old baby got vac- research, European Red-rated sites Natural News—which News- cinated?” spreading vaccine misinforma- Guard has rated Red, meaning gen- The answer is that the incident tion reference local adverse event erally unreliable—published a story never happened. CDC spokesperson reporting systems less frequently reporting the death of a 2-year-old Kristen Nordlund told USA Today than they reference VAERS—a for- who in late February had received that the adverse event report was eign source. the second dose of a Pfizer-BioN- “completely made up” and the CDC For example, in April, French Tech COVID-19 vaccine during the took the rare step of removing it Red-rated site Planetes360.fr pub- company’s clinical trials for chil- from the VAERS system. lished an article based on VAERS dren. The only problem? Children This is far from the only time data that claimed that: “736 persons under 5 did not begin receiving that anti-vaccine advocates have died within 48 hours after receiving shots until April, according to a used VAERS data to claim, falsely, the COVID vaccine.” press release on the Pfizer website. that COVID-19 vaccines can or have Although reports have never been Natural News picked caused death, infertil- vetted before inclusion in the VAERS up the false claim from ity or other side effects. database since the system’s launch in another Red-rated web- BY Using data from News- 1990, the hope was that reports were site: Great Game India. Whip, a social media rooted in reality. But that was before The single source of MELISSA GOLDIN, intelligence company, the modern internet, which allows evidence cited by both JOHN GREGORY and NewsGuard has found anyone to report anything to VAERS websites was the Vac- KENDRICK that Red-rated sources for instant public posting. cine Adverse Event MCDONALD like Natural News VAERS is a noisy system by design. Reporting System, or and Great Game India It collects unverified reports of any VAERS, a database jointly run for 31 account for over 80 percent of Face- adverse health events reported to <

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www.gonitro.com platform focused on vaccines. And cine advisory committee. vulnerability to manipulation as a during the largest vaccination effort “The anti-vaccine people will always necessary risk and suggest that the in history, a small but vocal set of say, ‘Look at all these deaths, look at scope and transparency of VAERS activists are using it to sound a false all the damage that these vaccines are is a testament to how seriously the alarm at a much louder volume. doing…and the only way that’s going government takes vaccine safety and The exploitation of VAERS is not to change if we all get to move to a the potential risks. a surprise to Dr. Paul Offit, director planet that’s dominated by reason VAERS was established in 1990 by of the Vaccine Education Center at and logic,” Offit said. the CDC and FDA in response to the the Children’s Hospital of Philadel- Nevertheless, Offit and other pub- 1986 National Childhood Vaccine phia and a member of the FDA’s vac- lic health officials see the system’s Injury Act, which among other pro- visions requires health care provid- ers to report adverse effects that may have been caused by vaccines. It has been used by scientists as an inves- tigative tool to help their research and by anti-vaccine organizations “The anti-vaccine to further their agenda by using people will always say, unverified reports that often lead to ‘Look at all these misinformation. “With public access, there’s going deaths, look at all the to be misinterpretation of the data damage that these there,” Susan Ellenberg, a professor vaccines are doing.’” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, said. “But without public access, I think it’s worse. Because then you just have people imagining what’s there. And that can really be worse.” Whether the benefits of VAERS actually outweigh the risks remains a matter of debate. However, Ellen- berg said she believes that education about the system and its purpose is the best way to counteract any unintended harm. “Those of us who work in science can tear our hair out about the way people misinterpret things,” she said. “And all we can do is to continue to try to educate people.” And, of course, now that the VAERS data in raw form has been public for so long, cries of a deep state conspiracy would certainly follow any move to shut the data off.

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www.gonitro.com CONTENT FROM COUNTRY REPORTS IRELAND Ireland: New dawn, new opportunities

Irish companies are reacting to COVID-19 and Brexit with more innovation

One hundred years ago, Ireland was an impoverished agrarian nation on the brink of independence from the U.K. Today, it’s a wealthy, dynamic pow- erhouse that was the only European Union member to achieve economic growth in 2020. What lies behind this dazzling transformation? “A major factor in its success has been our determination to become a hub for innovation,” says Julie Sinnamon, CEO of Enterprise Ireland, the agency responsible for the development and growth of Irish companies in international markets. “As a small country, we know that research and innovation are key to competitiveness. They are cornerstones of Ireland’s economic policy, which is now a world leader in generating and using new knowledge for progress.” Ireland’s extensive innovation ecosystem contains many multinational giants in sectors like technology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and medtech. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar at Ireland’s Start-Up Showcase in February Google, Apple, Facebook, Intel, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and numerous others like them have substantial operations in the outward-looking, En- nies responded to the pandemic with innovations that have positioned Ireland glish-speaking country, where they benefit from pro-business and research-ori- fifth in the world for global exports of COVID-related goods and services, ac- ented policies, a brilliantly educated workforce, plus easy access to European cording to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.” and global markets. But Ireland has also built a strong base of homegrown Among those using the crisis as an opportunity to hasten their development companies in the same sectors, which made a significant contribution to ex- are NearForm that built the world’s most widely adopted contact-tracing port levels in 2020, a year that saw both COVID and dawn breaking on a app; Daon, creator of the VeriFLY biometric mobile-health passport; med- post-Brexit trading relationship with the U.K. ical-equipment supplier Aerogen; Aalto Bio that engineered the proteins in many tests for the virus; clinical research organization ICON, which carried “Our companies responded to the pandemic out vaccine trials; and healthtech outsourcing experts RelateCare. with innovations that have positioned Ireland The crisis accelerated trends and created opportunities for a number of fifth in the world for global exports of COVID- Irish exporters. For example, Workhuman’s social recognition software al- related goods and services.” lowed the rising numbers of teleworkers to stay connected with colleagues. Julie Sinnamon, CEO, Enterprise Ireland Smurfit Kappa, the recycle-oriented global leader in paper-based packaging, supported logistics pressure. “Our business is in extremely good shape because With 40 offices worldwide, Enterprise Ireland has played a crucial role in the pandemic accelerated the trends toward e-commerce and sustainability,” this. “We invest in the most innovative Irish companies through all stages of reveals CEO Tony Smurfit. As the planet emerges from COVID, many of their growth and connect them to international customers,” explains Sinna- the next-generation of Irish firms tipped to become worldwide names are also mon. The agency is a key driver to support Irish companies to start grow, focused on the environment—Ireland ranks fifth in MIT Technology Review’s innovate and win export sales in global markets that has given Ireland a bur- Green Future Index and it boasts a plethora of green-technology innovators in geoning reputation as a startup nation. “Enterprise Ireland was ranked first in diverse sectors. As Smurfit points out, “Ireland has always had very creative, the world in Pitchbook’s 2020 league table of venture capital investors. That open-spirited, clear-thinking people. We’ve had so many successes relative to year, we invested over €48 million in Irish startups,” she states. the country’s size, it’s truly astounding.” Years of nurturing Ireland’s entrepreneurial spirit has paid off, the CEO as- To learn more about how Ireland’s successful inno- serts. “Irish businesses are now at the center of technological innovation, driven vators are transforming the world, access our full-length by a global mindset, commercial imperatives and developing solutions to meet special with the QR code or visit www.newsweek.com/ the toughest challenges. This was evident when a large cohort of our compa- newsweek-country-reports.

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DYNAMIC DUO: Megastar Chris Evans is asking politicians to explain themselves to a new generation of young potential voters. Right: Evans with actor Mark Kassen, his partner in A Starting Point.

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of all votes cast, the most since the voting age was especially matters to them,” says Elizabeth Matto, lowered in 1970. And further increases may be in director of the Center for Youth Political Partici- store for future elections, says CIRCLE Deputy Di- pation at Rutgers University. “Any way elected offi- rector Abby Kiesa. The 2020 increase was particu- cials can engage them online in an unfiltered way larly outsized among 18- and 19-year-olds, suggesting is going to resonate with them.” they and the sub-18 voters who will come of age in It’s increasingly difficult to ignore Gen Z. These 2022 and 2024 may bring a fresh surge in numbers young voters do more than just turn out on elec- PRESSING THE CASE centered on ever-younger voters. “These kinds of in- tion night: they are also quick to engage in the Most of the short videos on A Starting Point creases among young voters are unheard of,” she says. grassroots of politics, including petitions, cam- involve opposing-party The 10- to 25-year-olds that Evans is targeting paigns and protests. That passion for the issues politicians pressing their have been largely ignored by politicians. That may and the willingness to act on them, together with disagreements. Top to bottom: Joe Kiani; be because Gen Z, having been almost literally a social-media-centric world view, is starting to re- U.S. Representative raised on Snapchat videos, has shown little inter- shape the political landscape. That short clips of Katie Porter.; and voters est in traditional sources of information. “They’re babbling politicians can strike a chord with these cast their ballots in Hillsboro, Virginia, on savvy consumers of digital media, but candidates youthful voters could be a harbinger of an historic November 3, 2020. have rarely spoken to them directly to address what shift in the American electorate.

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www.gonitro.com Diverse and Passionate beyond their numbers and propensity for voting, Gen Zers are also the most diverse generation in modern American history. According to a census analysis, half of them are people of color—four percent more than millennials and 20 percent more than Baby Boomers. That means racial justice isn’t just an abstract principle they believe in—it’s often a personal struggle for them, their families and their friends. “It’s not that we’re trying to be the interface between younger generations and politics,” says Kas- sen. “But we know from our interactions with them that they’re not interested in traditional narratives.” Also differentiating Gen Z are the extraordi- nary events that have taken place during some of their most impressionable years. They have seen the emergence of mass shootings, in schools and elsewhere, as a standard feature of American life; they’ve watched cellphone and bodycam videos of Black people shot to death or suffocated by police; they’ve lived through four years of the most po- larizing president of modern times; they’ve been trapped in the deadliest pandemic in a century; they’ve been pummeled by increasingly extreme weather events; and they’ve watched insurrection- ists mob the Capitol as a third of Americans refuse to accept the results of a presidential election. Then throw in economic upheaval that has stalled many of them on the path to ﬁnancial independence. These events affect everyone, of course, but to young people they are likely to be formative. While the full impact of these experiences on the worldviews of Gen Zs can’t yet be calculated, it’s clear that as a group, they are not interested in hen, executive director of Generation Progress, a pro- taking any of it lying down. That became apparent gressive political advocacy group focused on younger after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman voters. “They want to see which politicians can make Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which it happen and get bills passed.” To get Gen Zs to vote killed 17 people. “Students quickly organized polit- in ever-larger and even election-swinging numbers, ical responses, not only marching, but identifying he says, many candidates are going to give young the positions that members of Congress were tak- people the kind of attention that until now has been ing on gun control, and engaging other young peo- reserved for undecided voters in swing states. ple to register to vote,” says Matto. Swedish Gen Z Talia Joseph, 19, is looking forward to ﬂexing activist Greta Thunberg, meanwhile, demonstrated that sort of newfound political muscle. As an in- I love the idea of that same year how a 15-year-old could draw global coming freshman this fall at the University of Wis- from the people who attention to the environment. consin in Madison, she is not only a youth voter but Seeing that these sorts of efforts can swing elec- a swing-state voter as well. “People my age realize political process, tions and affect policy, Gen Zs have become all the how much of an impact our vote had in 2020,” she journalistic spin. more politically engaged—and impatient. “They says. “I like Joe Biden, but he’s not perfect. If he don’t want to see that politicians are trying, and they makes any policies we don’t approve of, we know who these people in don’t want to achieve moral victories,” says Brent Co- we can pressure him.” Joseph, who’s one year older

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than Thunberg, is active in fundraising and orga- on how to do almost anything,” Evans says. “But nizing aimed at turning up the heat on the admin- where do you go to get a quick breakdown on a istration in combating climate change. political issue, and hear what both sides have to < 7 7

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on many issues. And there are frank assessments: tool, via a partnership with the Close Up Founda- Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, tion, which offers a range of civic-engagement pro- warns in one video that bipartisanship won’t get far grams to high schools. Another partnership, with until more voters get behind it—a weak prospect grassroots political organizing group BridgeUSA, is in the current political climate. increasing the site’s visibility on college campuses. Most of the videos show members making their cases on the issues in a calmer, less pointed way An Overwhelming Force than they might on Meet the Press. Ilhan Omar, the all this effort to politically engage gen z outspoken Democratic representative from Minne- may seem unnecessary, given that they’re already sota, politely criticizes the Trump administration unusually engaged. But as big as their voting num- for abandoning the Iran deal that limited that bers were in 2020, notes CIRCLE’s Kiesa, there are country’s nuclear-weapon program and tweaks the reasons to believe there’s room to improve on them. Biden administration for being too slow to rejoin it. “Young people are much less likely to be contacted The insistence on letting both sides have their unﬁltered say appeals to the Gen Z cohort. It’s not that they’re split between the two parties; only a ﬁfth of them approve of Trump, and about two- < 7 7

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MUSIC last year was supposed to have been a big one for Los Angeles-based singer-song- writer Liz Phair, who shook up the indie rock world almost 30 years ago with her debut Exile in Guyville. Back in In 2020 she was scheduled to release Soberish, her first new album in 10 years, and embark on a summer tour with Alanis Morissette and Garbage. The pandemic suspended those plans. The pause, though, the Game gave Phair time to update the record. Indie rock legend Liz Phair She remembers thinking, “Well, if it’s going to reemerges with SoberishKHUɿUVW come out a year from now, we have to make it for new album in over a decade then. Here’s the things that I think are going to be in place: Trump will have lost, we’re also going to be coming out of the pandemic at that exact moment. We want the comfort of sounds of the past, but we want the energy of something brand new—because we’re all gonna be brand new again.” Soberish finally came out on June 4 via Chrysalis Records. It feels like a sum- mation of Phair’s career, drawing from the pioneer- BY ing indie rock of Exile in DAVID CHIU Guyville and its follow-up @newbeats Whip-Smart; the moments of reflection on Whitechoc- olatespaceegg; the mainstream pop-rock of Liz Phair and Somebody’s Miracle; and the sonic experimen- tation of her last album Funstyle. Phair says any resemblance to her back catalog was unintended but not unwelcome. “It’s kind of cool that that just snuck out through my unconscious,” she says, “I like that there’s some DNA in there from older works.” Some of the new songs date back to a period when Phair was collaborating with her then producer Ryan Adams, for an album that never got off the ground. For Soberish, Phair renewed her relationship with producer Brad Wood, who had helmed Exile in Guyville and Whip-Smart. “We have a shorthand from years of working together. But we’d also diverged and had a lot of experiences separately that I hear in Soberish, I hear my sound design from all the TV scoring I did, and I hear his fluidity of mixing. He can just take any crazy thing I throw at him and turn it into a gorgeous instru- mentation.” While the music on Soberish is sonically diverse

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with such elements from indie rock, pop and electronic R&B ,its lyrics are a continuation of Phair’s musings on the trials and tribulations of roman- tic relationships. “It is an album for in-between states,” Phair explains, “where one long-term relationship comes to a slow, grinding halt in the first half, and how difficult it is to disentan- Further Listening gle yourself from someone who’s known you for a lot of your life. And then the second half of the record is dating new people and having that wild exuberance that comes from new possibilities, but they keep stall- ing out before they really get off the ground. And then when you get to [the song] “Lonely Street,” you’re like, ‘God, I really miss my ex.’ Then ﬁnally in the last three songs on the record, Whitechocolatespaceegg Exile in Guyville Whip-Smart you’re like, ‘But f*ck it, I’m single, I’m Matador, 1993 Matador, 1994 Matador/Capitol, 1998 ready to mingle, I’m Liz Phair again.’” 7KHFODVVLFDOEXPWKDW $WWKHWLPHWhip-SmartKDG $UHʀHFWLYHDQGXQGHUUDWHG WXUQHG/L]3KDLULQWR WKHXQIRUWXQDWHSRVLWLRQ DOEXPLWZDVPDGHZKLOH “Spanish Doors,” the arresting ﬁrst LQGLHURFNJRGGHVV RIIROORZLQJXSDJDPH 3KDLUZDVSUHJQDQWţ7KHUH single released ahead of Soberish, is a Exile in GuyvilleWRRNRQ FKDQJLQJGHEXWDOWKRXJKLW DUHSHUVRQDOPRPHQWVRQ melancholic yet uptempo-sounding WKDWUHFRUGWRRWKDWDUHOHVV UHODWLRQVKLSVDQGVH[LVP RIIHUHGXSDVWURQJEDWFKRI track that describes a breakup. Phair ZLWKLWVUHIUHVKLQJO\UDZ VRQJVVXFKDVţ6XSHUQRYDŤ WKHWRXJK/L]3KDLUSHUVRQDŤ says “I’m taking you right into the VRXQGDQGHYHQUDZHUO\ULFV WKHWLWOHWUDFNţ&LQFRGH VKHWROG3RS0DWWHUVLQ 0D\RŤDQGţ-HDORXV\Ť ţDQGPRUHWKHQDYDO restaurant where I’ve just been told JD]LQJHPRWLRQDOVLGHŤ by my long-term partner that we’re ending things, and I’m like, ‘What the f*ck? Who am I now? What world am I going to live in now if it’s not with you?’” There are also moments of self-reflection, particularly the nostalgic “Sheridan Road,” which pays homage to Phair’s Chicago roots. “It’s a very time-and-place specific song, she Liz Phair Somebody’s Miracle Funstyle says. “Sheridan Road is the artery that Capitol, 2003 Capitol, 2005 Rocket Science connects in Chicago the suburbs up 2OGIDQVDQGFULWLFVZHUH $QRWKHUXQGHUUDWHGZRUN Records, 2010 north to the town and that multicul- WDNHQDEDFNE\WKLVDOEXPŠV Somebody’s Miracle ţ

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