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The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide

Since 2013, I’ve done a holiday gift guide that’s basically a curated roundup of stuff from the best gift guides I can find. I always do it a little bit differently from year to year, and last year I went with a simple list and it worked well. So I’m doing that again this year.

Mavericks Frontman Raul Malo Dies at 60

Raul Malo, whose rich voice was the defining train of the Mavericks, the fittingly named group who brought Latin flavor and lively rock vibe to country music in the 1990s, died on Monday, the band announced on social media. No cause of death was cited, but he announced back in

Former DOJ staff rip civil rights unit's 'destruction'

More than 200 attorneys formerly employed in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division bashed the Trump administration Tuesday for turning its “core mission upside down” as it took a series of moves to gut the agency. The open letter, signed on the 68th anniversary of the