25 good things that happened in 2025

After a year like 2025, it's easy for anyone who inhales large quantities of online news to be downhearted. This was a year that began with a terrifying salute from the world's richest man. His government IT department, known as DOGE, swung a wrecking ball at the agency that oversees U.S. overseas aid; many experts say widespread disease and famine will be the result. There was already a famine in Gaza, ceasefire notwithstanding. Ukraine remains at war. Climate change is still a thing, 2025 was