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Christmas thread

Today in History: December 23-25

Foreign Exchanges

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

‘This is murder!’: Industrially poisoned South Baltimore residents march on state capitol, demand help from Gov. Moore

Real News Network

December 25, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

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

2024 set the stage for clean energy on public lands

High Country News