Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Yes, there was Aurora and there was Newtown, and there may have been a striking lack of coverage on Afghanistan and the drone war, but there was a handful of news events that seemed to make for the most striking photography.
The people who work at The Onion are some of the smartest, and most essential, people in the "news" world right now, and they went through a tough year. So we thought it would be a good idea to share our favorite stories.
In the real world, there were escalating political nightmares and merciless superstorms and terrible shootings. But on TV and on the radio, at the movies and all across the Internet, there was revitalization and renewal, invention and good old-fashioned fun.
They are news stories and they are the people behind them, they are photos and videos and GIFs. They are, quite simply and in chronological order, the good things.
Saturday Night Live isn't important because it's a weekly funny show. It's important because it's the only weekly funny show that can help us remember what the heck happened this year.
As schedules lighten and plane trips loom, we've compiled some of our favorite pieces of long-form non-fiction journalism from an excellent year for the so-called long read.
The most noxious, wrongheaded, misleading, silly, and downright awful pieces of punditry to somehow end up in print or online this year.
Time can have its real person of the year, but not-real people can influence us, too, and in 2012, fake characters mattered. From Katniss to Bane and Zero Dark Thirty's Maya, here's our alternative list.
There is no better way for a semantic-minded person to remember the year than with those words we'd just as soon never write or see or hear spoken again. From "artisanal" to "curate," "gaffe" to "legitimate rape," and "meggings" to "ugh," here's our list.
Adult fiction and nonfiction were pretty phenomenal this year. Here, we celebrate 34 of our favorite reads from the last 12 months — with superlatives!
Many people made a big splash this year in movies, music, media, etc. Because these people can never get enough attention, here are our ten favorite debuts and/or breakout humans from the American culture.
That it was an uneven year at the movies does not mean it was without its definite bright spots. To that end, and in continuing with The Atlantic Wire's Year in Review, we've chosen our ten favorite films of 2012. And a few that were not so much.
We honor the 33 books that mattered to us in this year's breakout literary genre, with a little help from some writerly and book-loving folks, including authors Eliot Schrefer, Ally Condie, Ruta Supetys, Andrea Cremer, R.L. Stine, and others.
From the youngs of Brooklyn to old-timey Jersey, the White Walkers to the regular old zombie walkers, here's our list of the 10 best television shows of the year ... and two that were not so much.
Here are some things to be excited about in the new year.
Out of the year's 365 days, here are 10 that made 2011 what it was.
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