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Christmas is exactly one week away, and that means exactly one thing: if you haven't completed your holiday shopping, you're behind. Typically, brands offer expedited shipping—for a fee, of course—up until December 21st. May we suggest taking the easy route and buying a few last-minute gifts from Amazon with Prime Shipping? Either way, to help guide you (read: save you), our shopping editors have curated a list of gifts that includes everything from incredibly warm slippers to wagyu hot dogs. Each selection is designed to help you look like you had your shit together, when we know you didn't. You're welcome. But seriously. Don't wait any longer. —Krista Jones, commerce director Plus: |
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The things our editors buy when they're pressed for time. |
It's crunch time, people. We're already in mid-December, and that means that if you haven't bought your holiday gifts already, you've already been relegated into the "last minute" shopper category. The good news is that you're not alone there. Every year, the end of December creeps up on us until we're scrambling to find a gift for your picky dad, or your moody teen. And while we might consider ourselves gift-giving aficionados here at Esquire, we're not above falling into the procrastination cycle either. Over the years, we've found a few tricks to find a gift that will arrive on time, from cool subscriptions with no shipping delays, to great finds on Amazon that will arrive at your door in a day or two.
Whether your gift-giving budget is shot and you need an under-$100 option, or the guilt is making you lean towards a designer pick, our editors are here to share their best last-minute gifts (provided you don't show this to their families). From games that you can play with the entire family, to on-sale finds that can help you save an extra few bucks, we rounded up the 14 best last-minute gifts that our editors swear by. |
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On Wednesday, former special counsel Jack Smith met with the clowns and mountebanks of the House Judiciary Committee in a special closed session. He also met with the Democratic members of the committee. Judging by his opening statement, which was obtained by Politico and a number of other outlets, Smith gave a vivid demonstration of why you never will see him in a public hearing. Though any testimony Smith gives Congress in any setting is necessarily circumscribed by the rules and standards regarding grand jury testimony, the opening statement fires a thunderous shot across the bows of Republican legislators. If El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago called you in those perilous days and you didn't immediately throw your telephone out a window, you were accessorial to the violence that came later. And if you didn't vote to impeach him when he was powerless to keep you from doing so, then Jack Smith is going to embarrass you in public too. Hear the bell tolling, you passel of feckless cowards. |
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Stranger Things, the Netflix series about supernatural terrors that overtake a quiet midwestern community in the 1980s, was drawing to a close. It had become a pop-culture juggernaut of unspeakable scale, adding all the more weight to its looming fifth and final season. The whole world was waiting to see how Stranger Things was going to end, but this caravan of workers, centered in and around Atlanta, needed to find out first. For that, they all looked to the identical twin brothers whose imaginations had given birth to Stranger Things: Matt and Ross Duffer. But the twins had difficulty providing all the answers. "We had known what the final scene was for a while," says Matt, the brasher and more talkative of the two. "It was a relief that we knew where we were headed. But in terms of the finer details, that took a long time to figure out." |
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