2023 was nothing if not newsy. Between former President Donald Trump's four indictments and 91 felony counts, unrelenting inflation (how's that "Bidenomics" thing really working out for you, Joe?) and President Biden's impending impeachment inquiry, and Taylor Swift entering her era of most unstoppable woman in the world, we've been through a lot together.

Along the way, there was a seemingly never-ending voting to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker (and more seemingly never-ending voting to elect his replacement). A war in Ukraine. A war in Gaza. A new monarch in England. "Barbenheimer." An unrelenting election year that is just getting started.

But what captured your attention most was, well, a column that included none of that.

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Sure, we had plenty of opinions to share about all of those topics. And you read them – and shared many of your own (our columnists' and editors' inboxes prove it). But what you were most interested in often went beyond politics to, well, you'll see.

Read on for USA TODAY Opinion's Top 10 most-read columns of 2023. Let's do it again next year, shall we?

10. Julianna Margulies: My non-Jewish friends, your silence on antisemitism is loud

"We are hurting and we are terrified, because history has shown us that this won’t end well for the Jewish people if you don’t hear our cries for help," the actor, activist, author and founder of the Holocaust Educator School Partnership wrote in November.

9. Why did Alex Murdaugh escape the death penalty? Perhaps it's because he's white and rich.

"The Murdaugh case is the latest reminder that death row ... has been a place heavily populated by poor Black men," wrote Austin Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science at Amherst College in Massachusetts, after Murdaugh's sentencing in March.

8. Indicting Trump for 'knowingly false........

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