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Topic: Best Of 2024

Joe Biden | Marijuana (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mellow, man: Is it why nothing matters?

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Kamala Harris VS Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Make voting in America compulsory

Austin Sarat
A couple reading books at home (Getty Images/Basak Gurbuz Derman)

5 thought-provoking books of 2024

Daria Solovieva
"Dandadan" poster (Yukinobu Tatsu/Shueisha, DANDADAN Production Committee)

2024's best anime and its viral opener

Kambole Campbell
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Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gen Z's top five songs of 2024

Nardos Haile
4736 North Bay Road (Courtesy of Luxhunters / Choeff Levy Fischman Architecture + Design)

Record-smashing home sales of 2024

Cara Michelle Smith
Cristin Milioti in "The Penguin" (Macall Polay/HBO)

9 TV moments worth remembering in 2024

Melanie McFarland
Demonstrators protest and argue outside the U.S. Supreme Court, March 26, 2024. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How abortion rights landscape changed

Nicole Karlis
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Former President Donald Trump walks out to speak at a news conference from the lobby of Trump Tower the day after being found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York, NY on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A glossary for a second Trump term

Chauncey DeVega
Supporters attend a primary election night event for J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, at Duke Energy Convention Center on May 3, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The year MAGA broke heterosexuality

Amanda Marcotte
Man Holding Empty Pockets (Getty Images/RUNSTUDIO)

Our financial regrets of 2024

Vanessa McGrady
The Substance (Mubi)

2024's most disturbing film nudity

Gary M. Kramer
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Donald Trump, Sam Bankman-Fried, and cryptocurrency coins Dogecoin, Bitcoin and Ethereum. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How crypto took control in 2024

Daria Solovieva
Look Back (Tatsuki Fujimoto/Shueisha)

Oh the humanity! A "Look Back" at art

Michael Lee
Adam Scott in "Severance" (Apple TV+)

12 shows for your end-of-year binge

Hanh Nguyen, Melanie McFarland, Coleman Spilde, Nardos Haile
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Billionaires bought big in 2024

Cara Michelle Smith
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Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall (Clifton Prescod/Netflix)

7 fearless comedy specials of 2024

Melanie McFarland
Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun speaks before eating a banana artwork composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape, in Hong Kong on November 29, 2024, after buying the provocative work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at a New York auction for $6.2 million. (PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

The most outrageous purchases in 2024

Esther Luz
A vehicule is stranded on a water-flooded street after Hurricane Milton made landfall in Brandon, Florida on October 9, 2024. (MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change wreaked havoc in 2024

Matthew Rozsa
Lesley Manville as Nurse Redd in "Grotesquerie" (Prashant Gupta/FX)

This was Lesley Manville's best year yet

Coleman Spilde
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Sabrina Carpenter and Marcello Hernandez at the Variety Power of Young Hollywood Event at the Santa Monica Proper Hotel on August 8, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. (Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

Short celebrities stood tall in 2024

Nardos Haile
Henry Cavill in “Argylle” (Universal Pictures/Apple Original Films)

The worst performances of 2024

Gary M. Kramer
Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman in "Babygirl" (Courtesy of A24/Niko Tavernise)

2024's 9 best films with defiant women

Coleman Spilde
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