Happy new year! Welcome to 2025, and congratulations for living through yet another complete rotation around the giant firey gas ball we call the sun. The start of a new year is as good a time as any ...

Tax season is approaching, and millions of Americans will soon turn their attention to tax brackets. Every year, the Internal Revenue Service announces new tax brackets, tiers of income that are taxed ...

These 10 standout images were among thousands of stunning submissions in National Geographic’s Your Shot Pictures of the Year 2025 challenge. The delicate West Indian seagrape sawfly (Sericoceros ...

2025 was a big year for cybersecurity, with major cyberattacks, data breaches, threat groups reaching new notoriety levels, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in incidents. Some ...

It was hard to pick only 25. But it was easier than it used to be. Just like his first presidency, President Donald Trump’s first calendar year back in the White House was an unceasing parade of lies.

2025 delivered a slate of standout video game releases that resonated with both critics and players. According to Metacritic’s year-end rankings, the 10 highest-scoring games offered a mix of ...

A newsy analysis of the workings of D.C. (and beyond), providing the inside track on both the overhyped and overlooked events of the week. As 2025 comes to a close, consider this remarkable fact: Not ...

2025 was a year of uncertainty—be it about AI, tariffs, the economy, and so much more. In many ways, the most popular articles on HBR.org reflect this sentiment, with pieces about the challenges of ...

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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A landmark real-world experiment gave the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, finally giving concrete data to ...

Our blog’s Chart of the Week series tracked how the global economy evolved in 2025, with the top five charts highlighting some of the key issues shaping economic and policy discussions. They show ...