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Our 25
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of 2025We’re counting down our most-read pieces of 2025. This list will be updated daily until we reach #1 on December 31. Thanks to all our contributors, readers, and supporters this year. Happy Holidays!by Various McSweeney's Contributors -
This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person
Our 17th most-read piece of 2025.by Lia Woodward and Leah Folta -
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New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”
Our 22nd most-read article of 2025.by Carlos Greaves -
Short Imagined Monologues
I’m the High Note in “O Holy Night,” and I’m Ready to Hijack Your Christmas Eve Service
“You’ll be on the edge of your seat waiting for me, because you’ve heard way too many singers screech and waver and get me all wrong. What catastrophe awaits this time?”by Andrea Cavedo -
Rudolph the Red Won’t Guide Santa’s Bourgeois Sleigh Tonight
“Santa, your failure to plan for an extremely common weather occurrence has led you to devise a murderously reckless plan, just the latest crisis brought on by late capitalists’ misguided faith in ‘innovation’ and ‘disruption’ as ends in themselves.”by Talia Argondezzi
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December 8, 2025The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?by Robert Rooney
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December 16, 2025Red and Green Flags, According to Protagonists of Hallmark Christmas Moviesby Madeline Goetz and Will Lampe
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May 18, 2011I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceledby Melinda Taub
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December 19, 2025Is He the Grinch or Just a Gen-X Man at Christmas?by Leslie Ylinen
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December 11, 2025Bruce Springsteen’s Exes Grab Brunchby Catherine M. Young
Lest We Forget The Horrors
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December 17, 2025November 2025: Atrocities 530-580by Emily Greenberg and Cliff Mayotte
Interviews, Essays, and Excerpts
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December 21, 2025The Story of Art + Waterby Dave Eggers
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December 19, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: Place: The Nukus Museum of Artby Michael Snyder
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December 17, 2025Reviews of New Food: Williams Sonoma’s The Grinch™ Hot Chocolate Bombby Katy Maiolatesi
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December 12, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: Vanessa Bell Is Not at Homeby Heather Christle
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December 5, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Debbie Harry and Chris Steinby Emma Ingrisani
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November 21, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: Stuff I’ve Been Reading: Fall 2025by Nick Hornby
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November 14, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: A Microinterview with Kevin Youngby Nick Hilden
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December 23, 2025Santa Claus Responds to Christmas Wishes Made in Holiday Songsby Tom Smyth
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December 19, 2025Is He the Grinch or Just a Gen-X Man at Christmas?by Leslie Ylinen
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