As we wind toward the end of the year, Vox is taking a look back with some of our best stories of 2025. To build this list, I took recommendations from my colleagues for their favorites and tried to give you a range of topics to dive into. Whether you’re slogging through a day of work or taking some time off, I hope these entertain and inform you. Here they are, presented in no particular order:  1. We’ve unlocked a holy grail in clean energy. It’s only the beginning. by Umair Irfan In April, Umair Irfan reported on one of the most hopeful clean energy stories of the year: really bi...

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