From “Donald is right” to “Anna Wintour.”
Trump stuns the rest of the government by declaring victory over ISIS and ordering a complete withdrawal from Syria. 1/17
Such a move offers “a prime opportunity” for the Islamic State, Iran, and Russia. 2/17
“Donald is right.” Putin backs Trump in somewhat intimate terms during a press conference. 3/17
Speaking of Putin, thirty-four journalists were murdered this year in direct retaliation for their reporting, nearly double the figure for 2017. 4/17
Suicide prevention efforts are supposedly the Department of Veterans Affairs’ top priority. For the last two years the agency has failed horribly. 5/17
Related/unrelated: The Air Force buys coffee cups that cost $1,280 each and break easily. 6/17
A very good round-up for the year in pictures. 7/17
The single largest jump in usage rates of any drug in a single year: the number of teenagers who vaped in 2018. 8/17
The best "visualizations of tomorrow" from a year of crowd-sourced submissions. 9/17
The number of people living on the streets in LA and San Diego, two epicenters of America's homelessness crisis, fell this year. 10/17
To understand the extremity of Venezuela's economic crisis: one full day's wages buys 1.7 eggs. 11/17
Slavery is alive and well in Libya, where black Africans trying to get to Europe instead find themselves bought and sold. 12/17
Your new sportswear imported from China could have been manufactured by slave labor in an internment camp. 13/17
The west coast got slammed this week by high surf. Here’s footage from Monday at Maverick’s, northern California’s notorious big wave. 14/17
A brief profile of the best releases from Brainfeeder, the record label helping to push jazz back to the forefront. 15/17
Azealia Banks’s “Anna Wintour” makes number four on the Passion of the Weiss’s 50-videos-strong “Best Rap Songs of 2018.” 16/17
See also: The Best of 2018’s Bad Restaurant Reviews. 17/17
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