The Stories We Wish We’d Published This Year

Consider briefly, the editors. In 2024, we covered two elections, the billionaires influencing them, and the shows and music we watched or listened to to distract ourselves from them. We knew we’d be busy, but July—months after the primary, months before the general election—figured to be a down month, a time to explore the Gulf Coast or stay in hundred-year-old hotels. Then, in a two-week span, a shooter attempted to assassinate one presidential front-runner and that candidate’s opponent withdrew from seeking his party’s nomination. All the while, the GOP staged a convention, a hurricane devastated the Houston area, the state’s most ascendant movie star premiered in a film about a different type of natural disaster, and one of our most cherished actresses, Shelley Duval, died. As…

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