Christmas

Performers dance during the Lagos Street Carnival on December 3rd, 2017, in Lagos.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Snowmen stand on a field in Bielefeld, northwestern Germany.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Runners dressed in Father Christmas costumes arrive to take part in the annual five kilometer Santa Dash in Liverpool, England, on December 3rd, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Research shows the act of re-gifting bothers the re-gifter more than it does anyone else.

• By Kate Wheeling

A keeper clad in a Santa Claus costume feeds Magellanic penguins in a water tank as part of Christmas events at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise amusement park.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The way Christmas movies tell it, the generosity of individual tycoons is sufficient to mitigate the harms of class inequality.

• By Elizabeth King

An orthodox Jewish Israeli walks past an inflatable figure of Santa Claus in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem on December 20th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Bystanders admire a Christmas display along the Meguro River in Tokyo, Japan, on December 17th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Jake Glaser, dressed as Santa Claus, skateboards at Venice Beach on December 13th, 2017, in Los Angeles, California.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Without rain, high temperatures will keep the smoke coming—and could spur new fire growth.

• By Eric Holthaus

For me, Christmas Carols evoke hope in a way that Christmas itself never can.

• By Hanif Abdurraqib

Children ride a merry-go-round on opening day at the Christmas market in Magdeburg on November 27th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

An interview with my mother about the meanest thing I've ever said to her.

• By Ted Scheinman

A study shows that most of the variation in plants and trees comes down to just two factors: overall size and the "leaf economics spectrum."

• By Nathan Collins

From ironic nostalgia to festive simulation.

• By Kerri Scheer

Distributing emotional labor equally is a great gift for everyone.

• By Francie Diep

Don't underestimate the happiness physical presents can produce.

• By Tom Jacobs

The Paulas way, it turns out.

• By Rick Paulas

Can Christmas' pagan roots explain its increasing secularization today?

• By Mike Mariani

A pair of economists seek to reconcile two conflicting schools of thought in order to predict what sort of environments increase incentives for labor coercion.

• By Greg Rosalsky

A new commercial from the streaming-media company shows your family gathered all around the Christmas TV.

• By Paul Hiebert

For some, the so-called War on Christmas is about much more than a competition between religious and secular forces.

• By Lisa Wade