The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2024, and what were the least?
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2023, and what were the least?
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2022, and what were the least?
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2021, and what were the least?
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2020, and what were the least?
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2019, and what were the least?
We asked more than two dozen of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2018, and what were the least?
Yes, 2017 went off the rails. But what pushed it? We asked 29 of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of the past 12 months, and what were the least?
The past year has been bad—but what made it bad, more or less? To find out, we asked a group of writers and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2016, and what were the least?