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Can Canada Contain Conflagration?

Steve Pyne History News Network
The serial ice ages that erased and repopulated Canada like a palimpsest have yielded to a fire age that is rewriting history with flame. An interglacial period has morphed into an epoch in its own right. Call it the Pyrocene.

The Year in Class Struggle

Joe DeManuelle-Hall; Dan DiMaggio Jacobin
Labor is going into a new decade weaker than it’s been in nearly a century. But the year was a promising one for those looking for sparks from the US working class — and hoping the new decade can stoke those sparks into a flame.

A Gangster in the White House

David Frum The Atlantic
The president tweeted the name of the presumed whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal—demonstrating that he is unrepentant and determined to break the law again.