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The Suits and The Sugarcane

On Bad Bunny, two Super Bowl half-time concerts, the difference between political programming and political art — and why your work matters more than you might think right now

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Kelly Diels
Feb 13, 2026
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On Sunday night, two Americas watched two halftime shows. One was a party. The other was a meeting.

You already know the broad strokes. Bad Bunny headlined the official Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium — performing almost entirely in Spanish, staging a wedding on the fifty-yard line, building a sugarcane field out of human bodies, and handin…

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