Tears For Fears will release a new Deluxe Edition of their 1989 third album, The Seeds Of Love, on various formats, through UMC, on October 16.The new reissue includes brand-new Steven Wilson Atmos and Stereo mixes (Wilson ranks The Seeds Of Love as one of his top five albums of all time).The album is reissued on various vinyl and CD formats, including a 2LP edition on special-effect blue vinyl with alternate artwork, which pairs the original album with a second disc of B-sides and demos, some of which are appearing on vinyl for the first time, a three-CD set featuring alternate and rare mixes, single versions and B-sides, and a limited edition Blu-ray.Released in September 1989, the heavily Beatles-influenced album was a commercial and critical triumph, debuting at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and achieving Platinum certification from the BPI within just three weeks. In the United States, it was also a Platinum album, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Top 200."Out of all our albums, I’d probably rank it highest," says Roland Orzabal. "I think it surprised a lot of people, a lot of our peers as well, people who maybe we were being compared to in the mid-Eighties.""The tracks I liked then, I still like now," adds Curt Smith. "Woman In Chains, Badman’s Song, Sowing The Seeds Of Love and Advice For The Young At Heart have all stuck around. We still play those live."Pre-order The Seeds Of Love.Pre-order The Seeds Of Love Blu-ray.(Image credit: UMC)Tears For Fears: The Seeds Of Love Deluxe Edition2LP Deluxe EditionThe original album plus a bonus LP of B-sides, demos and rare recordings, several appearing on vinyl for the first time. Housed in alternative sleeve artwork and pressed on limited edition blue marbled vinyl.Side One 1. Woman In Chains2. Badman’s Song3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love4. Advice For The Young At Heart Side Two 1. Standing On The Corner Of The Third World2. Swords And Knives3. Year Of The Knife4. Famous Last WordsSide Three 1. Tears Roll Down2. Always In The Past3. My Life In The Suicide Ranks4. Music For Tables5. Johnny Panic And The Bible of Dreams Side Four1. Rhythm Of Life (Demo)*2. Advice For The Young At Heart (Demo)*3. Swords And Knives (Demo)*4. Famous Last Words (Demo)*5. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Instrumental / Demo)* *First time on vinyl3CD Deluxe EditionExpanded 3CD edition featuring the original remastered album, B-sides, radio edits, alternate mixes and rare recordings from The Seeds Of Love era, presented in a deluxe digipack with interviews and commentary.CD 1 - The Seeds Of Love1. Woman In Chains2. Badman's Song3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love4. Advice For The Young At Heart5. Standing On The Corner Of The Third World6. Swords And Knives7. Year Of The Knife8. Famous Last WordsCD 2 - The Sun - Single Seeds / 45s and B-sides 1. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (7" Version)2. Tears Roll Down3. Woman In Chains (Single Version)4. Always In The Past5. My Life In The Suicide Ranks6. Woman In Chains (Instrumental Version 2)7. Advice For The Young At Heart (7" Version)8. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Instrumental Version)9. Music For Tables10. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Mix One)11. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Mix Two)12. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (US Radio Edit)13. Woman In Chains (US Radio Edit)14. Advice For The Young At Heart (Italian Radio Edit)15. Year Of The Knife (Canadian Single Version)16. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of DreamsCD 3 - The Moon - Radio Edits and Early Mixes1. The Year Of The Knife (Overture)2. Year Of The Knife (Early Mix / Instrumental Version)3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Alternate Mix)4. Tears Roll Down (Alternate Mix)5. The Year Of The Knife (Steve Chase 7" Remix)6. Badman's Song (Early Mix)7. Advice For The Young At Heart (Backing Track)8. The Year Of The Knife (Instrumental Version)9. Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams (Mix One / 7" Edit)10. Sowing The Seeds Of Love (Early Mix / Instrumental)11. Woman In Chains (US Radio Edit 2)12. Year Of The Knife (Canadian Single Version / Instrumental)13. Famous Last Words (French Radio Edit)14. Woman In Chains (Reprise)1LP Steven Wilson Mix (D2C Only)The classic 1989 album newly mixed in stereo by Steven Wilson, pressed on exclusive sunburst orange and red vinyl.Side One 1. Woman In Chains2. Badman’s Song3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love4. Advice For The Young At Heart Side Two 1. Standing On The Corner Of The Third World2. Swords And Knives3. Year Of The Knife4. Famous Last Words1LP Half-Speed Master EditionThe classic 1989 album remastered by Jon Astley and cut at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios for enhanced audio fidelity and exceptional vinyl playback.Side One 1. Woman In Chains2. Badman’s Song3. Sowing The Seeds Of Love4. Advice For The Young At Heart Side Two 1. Standing On The Corner Of The Third World2. Swords And Knives3. Year Of The Knife4. Famous Last WordsLimited Edition Blu-raySteven Wilson Atmos MixSteven Wilson 5.1 MixSteven Wilson Stereo MixSteven Wilson Instrumental Atmos MixSteven Wilson Instrumental 5.1 MixSteven Wilson Instrumental Stereo Mix1989 Stereo Mix (Miles Showell 2023 Remaster)BONUS TRACKS: TOWNHOUSE LIVE JAM SESSIONS Woman In Chains – Townhouse JamBroken – Townhouse JamRhythm Of Life – Townhouse JamBadman’s Song – Townhouse JamBadman’s Song – Reprise – Townhouse JamStanding On The Corner Of The Third World – Townhouse Jam

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Not every woman is destined to become a biological mother. That doesn’t mean she can’t embody the essence of one through sacrifice, nurturing, humor, wisdom, and grace. Every woman carries a God-given piece of that inside her, whether or not she ever has a child of her own to raise. Dolly Parton, who never gave birth, spent her life proving it. Born January 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin on Locust Ridge in East Tennessee, Dolly Rebecca Parton was the fourth of 12 children. Her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a sack of cornmeal. She recorded her first single, “Puppy Love,” at 13, and the morning after her high school graduation in 1964, she packed her belongings in paper grocery bags and left for Nashville. She never left her family behind, though. Loyalty to her kin and her hometown was evident in everything she did afterward. Early in her 58-year marriage to Carl Thomas Dean, Parton tried to get pregnant. By 1978, at 32, she’d changed her mind. “We don’t want children of our own,” she told the BBC. “We don’t want the total responsibility.” At the time, she had five younger siblings living with her already. In 1982, Parton had to cancel a tour due to abdominal pain and bleeding. She was later diagnosed with endometriosis. This medical condition involves tissue that is similar to the lining of your uterus growing where it isn’t supposed to. It can cause infertility and extreme pain. Shortly afterward, Parton underwent a partial hysterectomy and learned that having children would be impossible. She’d go on to say, in various interviews over the following decades, that she never felt a “burning” pull toward motherhood the way some women do. But despite her words, she still maintained a wistfulness on the subject. “I would have been a great mother, I think,” she told the Guardian in 2014. “I would probably have given up everything else. Because I would’ve felt guilty about that, if I’d have left them [to work or tour]. Everything would have changed. I probably wouldn’t have been a star.”  She and her beloved husband Carl even picked out a name — Carla, if they had a girl — before deciding not to become parents. What she chose instead was to mother everyone else’s children. “I didn’t have children because I believed that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library,” Parton said during an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2020.  In 1988, she launched the Dollywood Foundation to support educational achievement in her home county, and in 1995 the foundation introduced the Imagination Library, a program that mails free books to children no matter their income level. What started as a local effort in East Tennessee grew into a global literacy initiative. The organization would eventually ship more than 200 million books to children across five countries. There’s a version of the childless life that’s become massively popular online. These are women who talk about not having kids because they want to travel, buy nice clothes, make more money, and never be tied down. Parton’s version did include fame and success by any measure, but it never came at the expense of thinking of others.  “We take care of a lot of other people’s kids,” the “Jolene” singer told Rolling Stone in 2003. “We buy new cars for all the nieces and nephews that graduate, we send any to college that want to go.” That maternal instinct reached well past her own family, too. When rapper Eminem was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside her in 2022, Parton wrote him a letter afterward since the two never got the chance to meet in person.  “Even though I don’t know a lot about rap music, I’ve come to know that you are the very best at it,” she wrote, adding that she’d always felt an unexplained connection to him. Eminem posted the letter on X after her death. “She definitely didn’t have to take the time to do it,” he wrote. “Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense.” To the family she did have, she was something closer to an actual mother, just one generation removed. Her nieces and nephews called her Aunt Granny and GeeGee while Carl was referred to as Uncle PeePaw.  “I grew up in a big old family with eight kids younger than me, and several of my brothers and sisters came to live with me early on in my life,” she told People Country in 2014. “I’ve loved their kids just like they’re my grandkids, and now I’ve got great-grandkids.”  She made similar statements more than once over the years because it was simply true of how she lived. Not having kids of her own never stopped her from mothering the ones around her. Parton had her own theory for why kids gravitated toward her. “I think kids relate to me because they think of me like a Mother Goose or a Fairy Godmother,” she said. “I’m like a cartoon character — my voice is little, and I’m an excitable little person like them! I’m very childlike in that way, in my nature.” Parton leaves behind no biological children. But for childless women, she remains a wonderful example of how to exude a mothering spirit without ever giving birth. For Parton, it was about sacrifice, giving, and a pureness of heart that everyone could plainly see.  She leaves behind a hundred million-plus free books mailed to kids who needed them, a foundation still funding education in her home county, nieces and nephews who called her Granny, and a rapper who never met her but still felt uplifted by a letter. What a legacy. *** This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you.

When Muslim extremists killed nearly 3,000 people on the morning of September 11, Americans awoke to the dangers of radical Islam. Though hardly the first instance of terrorism perpetrated by the hands of Muslims, nor the last, 9/11 was a crystallizing moment in the American psyche, and it led to intense debate about the nature of the “religion of peace.” Now, 25 years after 9/11, Americans are having a renewed discussion about Islam and whether the religion is compatible with Western values. While it may not come as a surprise that some on the Right do not believe Islam is compatible with the West, what you might find surprising is that many on the Left agree. In our survey of 1,067 adults, conducted by Ipsos for the Institute for Governance and Civics, we find that many are skeptical of Islam. In the survey, we randomly assigned participants to receive a question with one key difference. Half of participants were asked to agree with the following statement: “Overall, Western civilization has done more harm than good in world history.” The other half received the same question, but the word “Western” was replaced with “Islamic.” While 6% strongly agreed and 17% somewhat agreed that Western civilization has done more harm than good, 22% strongly agreed and 22% somewhat agreed that Islamic civilization has done more harm than good. Replacing “Western” with “Islamic” increased total agreement with the statement by 21 percentage points. Though interesting, this is not the most important conclusion to draw from the survey; that is — majorities on the Right and the Left believe that Islam is not compatible with the West. We asked whether Western civilization bears responsibility for the world’s current problems, whether core traditions and values are worth preserving, whether Western societies are a force for good in global affairs, whether individuals have an attachment to Western civilization, and whether survey participants value Western civilization. Overall, Americans are generally pro-West. For example, 67% said they value Western civilization’s achievements compared to just 4% who said they did not. Fifty percent said they felt attached to Western civilization, while 9% said they did not. Using these five items, we created a five-point pro-West index where 1 was low, and 5 was high. As you might expect, those who scored high on our pro-West index were less inclined to agree with the statement that Western civilization has done more harm than good and more likely to think Islam has done more harm than good. As my colleagues put it in their report, “Among respondents at the most pro-Western end of the index, with a score of 5, the estimated probability of agreeing that Western civilization has done more harm than good is just 3%, compared with 73% when the statement refers to Islamic civilization.” The results on the left-hand side of the distribution are flipped: “At the most anti-Western end, with a score of 1, the pattern reverses: the estimated probability of agreeing that Western civilization has done more harm than good rises to 84% for Western civilization but falls to 9% for Islamic civilization.” There are a couple of important threads to pull out here. First, people who are anti-West express negative views about the West more deeply than pro-West individuals do about Islam. In other words, the Left appears to hate the West more than the Right hates Islam. Second, those who dislike the West have a much higher view of Islam than they do of the West. On the Right side of our pro-West index, the difference in our experimental Western/Islamic question was 70 percentage points in favor of the West; on the Left, it was 75 percentage points in favor of Islam. Current debates have been spurred by the surge of Democrat-Socialist candidates who happen to be Muslim. In New York, the site of the 9/11 attacks, Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor in November 2025. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for Senate. New Jersey Democrats selected Adam Hamawy as their nominee for the 12th Congressional District, and throughout the country, Democratic Socialism seems to be in the political air. While the political ideology is certainly getting its due attention and criticism, so too is the fact that many Democratic Socialists are Muslim. The criticism is not simply that Islam has radical extremist elements, but that Islam itself is extreme and contrary to the American way. Representative Brandon Gill (TX-26) put it plainly when he said Islam is “incompatible with our culture and our governing system.” In January 2026, Republican Congressmen Keith Self (TX-03) and Chip Roy (TX-21) founded the “Sharia Free America Caucus.” Congressman Andy Ogles (TN-05), a member of the caucus, said, “Islam is a religion of violence, abuse of women, and ruthless political conquest.” The caucus launched with 24 members in under a month. It should shock precisely no one that the Sharia Free America Caucus has quickly been labeled “Islamophobic.” If you ask people on the Right if Islam is compatible with the West, chances are, if our poll is to be believed, that about three-fourths of them would say that the two worldviews are not compatible. Whereas, if you ask the same question to those on the Left, they would likely tell you Islam is compatible with the West. Then again, they would tell you that the West is terrible and responsible for the world’s worst. So, in their own way, they are telling you they too do not believe that Islam is compatible with the West. *** James V. Shuls, Ph.D., is a Research Faculty member of the Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University

A word of caution to the Right as the midterms approach: do not run on messages from the Left. The policies of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) base should not be the north star. So, why borrow from their playbook on data centers? Data centers are good. They are a boon for the economy and essential for national security and quality of life. You are reading this column because of data centers. You can share this article on social media because of data centers. We should support data centers for many reasons. Energy production. President Trump’s “Ratepayer Protection Plan” does something extraordinary and unprecedented: it allowed tech companies to build power plants.  Never has industry been allowed to act as a utility. If a manufacturing plant enters a town, the mayor cuts the ribbon and touts the new jobs, but there is less focus on the surge in power demand. If a school or hospital is built, the burden falls to the local utility to absorb their energy needs. For the first time, industries needing more power can produce it themselves, benefiting the entire community in the process. This is incredible news for America’s energy workers. In the words of President Trump, “the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they’re not taking it from the grid. It’s going to lower the cost of electricity.” Jobs. Data centers are private construction projects with private financing, not some Keynesian, centrally planned boondoggle like the California high-speed rail to nowhere.  These are hundreds of thousands of construction jobs for American workers, paid with private dollars, buying billions in materials and goods and services from the local community. To quote the president, “If you pick the right location, what it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lower taxes.” Tax revenue. Data centers are massive producers of tax revenue. Loudoun County, Virginia, hauled in $1.3 billion in tax revenue from data centers with a 30% reduction in local property taxes. Pretty ironic, considering Loudoun is already considered the richest county in America. In one Louisiana school district, teachers will receive$50,000 bonuses this year, thanks to a Meta data center project. The Left claims they oppose data centers because of “affordability” and rising electricity prices, yet under Biden, they closed over 100 viable coal and natural gas power plants under the pretext of climate change. In a detailed white paper called “The Looming American Electricity Affordability Crisis,” my organization warned the nascent second Trump administration of the disaster they inherited. The Left grounds their opposition to data centers on land use. Yet Biden spent tens of billions to purchase farmland for failed wind and solar projects. They turned our farmland into a bird-killing hellscape with intermittent technology purchased with tax dollars from communist China. Not a peep from them about “farmland” or food prices or the threat to rural America. The Left fights data centers because of the threat to American jobs, yet under Biden, they flooded the country with millions of illegal aliens whose cheap, off-book labor undercut wages for every American worker. This exposure is why the Left opposes data centers. Their agenda failed: green energy mandates failed the grid, outsourced jobs failed the economy, endless immigration failed the nation. The Left has failed rural America. They collectively now point to data centers as a boogeyman, the culprit of all our economic and social ills, rather than risk the truth of their failures being known. All that before discussing the threat from Communist China who wants to see all data center construction stop so they can beat America in the AI race and not for some “global community” kumbaya. An Axios headline this summer warned that “China just erased America’s AI lead.” The threat is real. I haven’t even mentioned property rights. I met a 7th-generation Virginia farmer in tears over the 8-figure check from a data center developer.  Some may say they “sold out,” but they see it as a gift from God, a reward for perseverance, and a sign of American success. The nerve of a governor or a politician to issue a “moratorium” out of political cowardice and deny someone the right to sell their land. That is about as un-American as it can get. I am not oblivious to the polls. If you believe them, more people want to live next to a nuclear power plant than a data center. The public relations efforts of those supporting data centers have been lackluster, to say the least. I welcome a robust discussion on data centers. As a farmer in Virginia, the data capital center of the world, I pass more than 200 data centers on the way to Washington, D.C. Politicians need to understand the concerns of their constituents, but do not run from a good issue because the Left pours money into scare tactics and media propaganda for their political advantage. Bernie Sanders has been espousing socialism for half a century, and I wouldn’t trust AOC to pour me a proper pint. They both oppose data centers. Anyone embracing their position is doomed to fail. Anyone using their talking points should have their head examined, and their conservative credentials revoked. *** Daniel Turner is the founder and executive director of Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs. He also runs a sheep and cattle farm in rural Virginia.  Contact him at daniel@powerthefuture.com and follow him on Twitter @DanielTurnerPTF

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Iran has been reported to be using negotiations with the United States to buy time, strengthen its position around the Strait of Hormuz, and rebuild military capacity for a wider conflict. The Trump administration needs a new Red Sea strategy. It should begin with Somaliland.The Houthis recently fired on a ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and Iran has reportedly told the group to be prepared to close the waterway if the United States strikes Iran’s power grid. The Bab el-Mandeb is a global shipping artery and a pressure point on energy markets.The crises in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb are warnings. Iran and the Houthis are trying to turn geography into coercion. The United States should turn geography back into deterrence.The warning is clear. The United States cannot rely indefinitely on distant strikes and vulnerable Gulf bases to protect shipping through the region’s choke points. Washington’s bombing campaign failed to neutralize the Houthi threat, leaving the group able to threaten commercial shipping, Gulf partners, and Israel.The moment calls for more than another round of airstrikes. The United States should recognize Somaliland.Somaliland has governed itself for decades, has shown interest in deeper ties with the United States and its allies, and sits beside one of the world’s most important maritime corridors. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has argued that recognition would advance U.S. interests in the Horn of Africa through counterterrorism, anti-piracy operations, and cooperation with partners such as Taiwan and Israel. He is right.Recognition should be followed by a formal security relationship allowing regular intelligence cooperation, military access, and a forward operating presence along the Gulf of Aden.Geography is Somaliland’s strongest argument. It sits across from Yemen near the approaches to the Red Sea and the same waters the Houthis have threatened to close.Others have noticed. Reports indicate that Israel has explored a strategic presence in Somaliland as part of its response to the Houthi threat. The United States has no comparable formal footprint. Access there could support counter-Houthi operations, intelligence collection across the Gulf of Aden, and the fight against Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Israel understands the value of the location. Washington should too.The United States also needs to reduce its dependence on bases within easy striking distance of Iran. On a recent webinar, retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former head of U.S. Central Command, described the problem bluntly: “No one in their right mind would ever put the CENTCOM forward headquarters, you know, 100 miles away from Iran, yet that’s where it is.”RELATED: The Navy has a choice: Get better or become less relevant Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty ImagesHe elaborated: “It’s good to be close to your potential enemy because it’s a short commute to the fight. It’s bad to be close to your potential enemy, because he has the ability to strike you very quickly.”I have previously argued that Washington should distribute regional assets across secure, aligned territories rather than concentrate them where host governments can restrict access, basing, or overflight. Somaliland would not replace Al Udeid or every existing Gulf facility. It would give the United States another option when allies limit operations or adversaries threaten choke points.A U.S. presence in Somaliland would also signal that Washington is willing to reward capable partners instead of remaining trapped by diplomatic habits that no longer serve American security. Recognition would carry costs, including friction with Somalia and other governments committed to Somalia’s territorial integrity. Those costs should be weighed against the strategic value of a reliable partner at the mouth of the Red Sea.The crises in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb are warnings. Iran and the Houthis are trying to turn geography into coercion. The United States should turn geography back into deterrence.Recognizing Somaliland would give the United States a stronger hand in the Red Sea, a better position against terrorist threats, and greater freedom to operate when existing partners hesitate. A proactive strategy begins by securing options before the next crisis closes them off. The time to act is now.

We should strive to live up to Dolly Parton’s vision for what the country can be.