🥂🍾 🥳 Welcome, 2025! 🎉

⏳ The Best of the Cosmopolitan Globalist, 2024 Edition. Plus: our year-end CLEARANCE SALE! Everything must go!💰 💵 🪽

Happy New Year, one and all!

I’ll let you in on a trade secret. At this time of year, newsrooms are short-staffed because everyone’s using their vacation time to take an extra-long holiday break, and the people who aren’t out of town are calling in sick because they’re hung over. This is why your daily newspaper today was written about a month ago. (Don’t believe me? Have a look at the front page of any major paper right now: Year-in-Review roundups, features, stories that were filed months ago, and Jimmy Carter obituaries—and did you know that newspapers write those kinds of obituaries in advance?)

But here at the Cosmopolitan Globalist, we’re fully staffed and working like beavers. Unlike our competitors, we've got a fresh best-of-the-year review for you. This was not sitting in the freezer and microwaved. In fact, I only just finished it in the nick of time before the New Year.

Even better, we’re having a massive New Year Sale—for those of you who missed our sale on Black Friday.

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So get 2025 off to a good start. Come join us.

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Best of 2024

(In chronological order, not in order of their best-ness.)

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Dramatis Personae: The Right

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If you want to read those, ⬆️ you know what to do: ⬇️

(And if you want to read what we’re going to write in 2025, ⬆️ you also know what to do.)

Happy New Year, once again!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, to all of the readers and subscribers who came along with me for the ride in 2024. I’ve been so grateful for your company.

🍾 🎉 Here’s to 2025. 😘

… May it surprise us by being paralytically boring.