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10 of the best Vox stories of 2025

As we wind toward the end of the year, Vox is taking a look back with some of our best stories of 2025. To build this list, I took recommendations...

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Cameron Peters

The year measles came back

Dr. Andrew Carroll, a family physician in Chandler, Arizona, a suburb outside of Phoenix, first arrived there in 2000, the same year the United...

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Dylan Scott

The most volatile group of voters is turning on Trump

Over the last year, the youngest generation of American voters have scrambled a lot of our understanding of politics. The Gen Z cohort swung hard...

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Christian Paz

Zohran Mamdani on his mayoral transition and what comes next

If one elected official had a breakout year in 2025, it’s New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The 34-year-old former state assembly member...

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Astead.herndon

Ezra Klein’s year of Abundance

Do you remember where you were when you first heard about “abundance”? In some circles, 2025 was the year that abundance became inescapable. The...

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Miles Bryan

The 2025 stories that prove people still run toward danger

One of my favorite books is Larissa MacFarquhar’s Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. The book is, in...

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Bryan Walsh

American women want to opt out

Young American women, it seems, want out of America. A Gallup poll in November found that 40 percent of US women ages 15 to 44 say they would move...

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Constance Grady

America’s other populist, socialist big-city mayor

The election was divisive, pitting an established moderate against an upstart progressive in the large, Democratic city. For a while it seemed like...

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Miles Bryan

Why 2025 was hell for job hunters

There is no better window into the soul of America’s striving professional class than LinkedIn, a site that this year often seemed less like a...

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Jordan-Weissmann

The eternal awkwardness of winter break

Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2024. When I was about...

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Anna North

The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol

Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem...

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Tanya Pai

JD Vance and the future of MAGA

After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things up, support President Donald Trump at all...

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Ariana Aspuru