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Happy xmas from Chartbook - and Edie's xmas playlist.

Top Links 598 The impact of HIV/AIDS. The legacy of Commons. Austerity amongst downfall & the year when left-conservative populism became a thing.

No Holiday Spirit in Gaza

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power

Foreign Policy In Focus

Chartbook 341 On thinking in medias res: An Interview with Ding Xiongfei from the Shanghai Review of Books (summer 2024)

Top Links 597 Costless disinflation. The world's undersea cable system. South Sudan's calvary & Jarmush takes us on a permanent vacation.

You smashed our goal

Reflections on Namibia’s 2024 Elections

More time on the plane, but more flights arriving early

Opinion – Rethinking the Precarity of the Hindu Minority in Bangladesh

Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people

Why Worry About Incorrigible Claude?

Astral Codex Ten

The Never-ending Legacy of the War on Terror

Foreign Policy In Focus

Nobody goes to New York City anymore. It’s too crowded.

Silver Bulletin

Berkeley's Evolution On Housing

Discourse Lounge

In Mobile Bay, the Oysters’ Tale of Woe

Inside Climate News

Grief, Hope, Joy: Faith in the Time of Climate Change

Inside Climate News

How Utah’s Christmas Festival has buoyed a changing coal community

High Country News

2024’s biggest conservation wins for the West

High Country News

December 24, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Who Bought and Holds the Recklessly Ballooning US National Debt, even as the Fed is Unloading its Treasury Securities?

Israel came late to American Jews

“And I Was Surprised”: On Federal Death Row, They Feared Biden Would Set Up Another Trump Killing Spree

Sheltering in churches, Gaza’s Christians face another Christmas under fire

Patagonia’s Ties to a Dark-Money Operation Bankrolling Democratic Candidates

A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline

Inside Climate News

A Native American Community Regains Its Rights to Land in a New Mexico National Preserve

Inside Climate News

Thailand Bans Advertising for Toddler Milk

Culture and Identity

Birds, Loves, and Obscure Sorrows: The Best of The Marginalian 2024

The Marginalian

On Leverett Pond

New York Review of Books

Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Memory

Who "Neurodiversity" Left Behind

A Changing Community and Lived Experiences Converge in Leroy Johnson’s Mixed-Media Houses

Dispatches from the Group Chats, Vol 3

100,000 Readers — Thank You!

Subscriber Writing, December 2024

Rice Straw Sculptures by ARKO Contemporize a Traditional Japanese Material

Africa is a Country

A Whole of Parts: Philosopher R.L. Nettleship on Love, Death, and the Paradox of Personality

The Marginalian

Syria: The Prison Gates Thrown Open

New York Review of Books

What Brought Us Joy in 2024

Making space for happiness, pleasure, and fun in a challenging year The post What Brought Us Joy in 2024 first appeared...

2024: The Year in World News

From Ukraine to India, stories that reverberate far past their borders The post 2024: The Year in World News first appeared...

Fashion-forward

On “Contemporary Choreography” at the New York City Ballet....

Mali’s Sunshine Journalism

One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human...

London Review of Books

Dealing with Politically Different Family this Holiday

By Jordie Davies This holiday season, many of us will return home to our families, who, even though they love us...

Black Youth Project

2024: The Year in Politics

From elections to diplomatic tensions, the stories that help make sense of what comes next The post 2024: The Year in...

Weekly Quiz: Poor Peacekeeping, Suspicious Science, and the New Divorcees

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday....

Videos and Podcasts

China's Demographic Time Bomb and America's Economic Future

Sandel and Piketty Part 3

New Economic Thinking

Sandel and Piketty Part 2

New Economic Thinking

Sandel and Piketty Part 1

New Economic Thinking

Why are these things American Christmas symbols?

The End of South Korea's Economic Miracle

Economics Explained

How the Death Penalty Is Uniquely American

The Intercept YT

Biden Could Save the 40 People On Death Row

The Intercept YT

Fyodor Dostoevsky – How Prison Sculpted a Genius

Academy of Ideas

Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)

New Books Network - Politics

Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)

New Books Network - Politics

2397 - BEST OF 2024: Rashid Khalidi

Majority Report

What I’m Thinking at the End of 2024

The Ezra Klein Show

2396 - BEST OFS 2024: Naomi Klein

Majority Report

Episode 434 Promo - Return of the Misfits (w/ Sen. Nina Turner)

Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)

New Books Network - Politics

Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)

New Books Network - Politics

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