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The 19 predictions that came true in 2025 — and the 4 that didn’t

It’s that time of year again. Every January 1, the Future Perfect team makes forecasts for the events we think will (or won’t) happen over the next...

yesterday 3

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Bryan Walsh

Inside Trump’s “no data, just vibes” approach to science

One of the biggest changes so far during President Donald Trump’s second term has been the steady degradation of basic data collection.  In some...

yesterday 2

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Umair Irfan

2025, in 8 minutes

2025 was dominated by the second iteration of the Trump administration, the release of the Epstein files, and government shakeups that ranged from...

yesterday 2

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Dolly Li

The political backlash to AI is overstated

A widely despised industry is slurping up Americans’ water — and driving up their electricity bills — as part of a nefarious plot to take their...

previous day 4

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Eric Levitz

In America, surviving a disaster increasingly depends on what you can afford

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every year at the Oscars, attendees...

previous day 4

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Rebecca-Mccarthy

The year of ‘decentering men’

I can’t tell you the exact moment every other woman on my TikTok feed decided they were “decentering men,” but I’ve never heard the phrase uttered...

previous day 4

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Kyndall Cunningham

Why conservatives should pay parents to stay home

MAGA thinks the country needs more stay-at-home parents, especially mothers. The goal isn’t just to boost plummeting birth rates, but to help...

previous day 3

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Kendra-Hurley

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...

monday 10

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Christian Paz

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...

monday 20

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Dylan Scott

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...

monday 10

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Cameron Peters

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...

monday 6

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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...

28.12.2025 2

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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