Journal Editorial Report: The year's best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O'Grady, Dan Henninger and Paul Gigot. Photo: VATICAN MEDIA/Zuma Press If you listed the worst years in American ...

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In the year 1998, Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, “Titanic” was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had landline phones. Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans ...

Deadline’s film critics Pete Hammond and Damon Wise reveal their Top 10 films of 2025, a list strewn with Oscar contenders and a few films that flew under the radar. To whittle so many films down to ...

The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing technology, studying the ubiquity of ...

It felt like much of pop culture this year was running on pure adrenaline. Everything from music to film, fashion to memes and even politics seemed to collapse into one ongoing feed of viral spectacle ...

Of everything I saw on TV in 2025, the one show I thought was the very best, and has haunted me ever since, was the four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. It's the story of a young teen accused of ...

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Owen Cooper in "Adolescence," Skye P. Marshall in "Matlock" and Noah Wyle in "The Pitt" (Netflix, CBS, HBO) The TV landscape of today may be smaller than a few years ago, but its ability to captivate ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

The winter solstice marks the official start of winter, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year. In 2025, the winter solstice will occur on Sunday, December 21, signaling the beginning ...