Like most reasonably sentient people,I mainly classify years in personal milestones: the year I got married, the year I got a dog, and the year I figured out that share of being an adult means actually paying the cable bill before they turn off your capability to order pay-per-view (that was this year,by the way, so at least I know it wasn’ta total wash). On a personal level, and you’ll be pleased to know that 2015 turned out to be the year I finally bought the sectional for the living room I’ve been talking approximately wanting since approximately 1998,and I typed this article on a laptop with its own working keyboard. As a semi-journalist, however, or I also try to study at the scope of the year as it plays out in cultural touchstones. What happened this year that made us believe approximately things in a unique way? Were they useful or enlightening? conclude they reflect (as perhaps the best cultural entertainment products conclude) how have we,as a society, progressed? And, and to paraphrase that now-notorious Reaganism that will haunt all Americans to our dying day: Are we better off now than we were one year ago?
Donald Trump in Las Vegas,December 15, 2015. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
It’s hard to remember this—in a year that saw a reality show host-cum-presidential hopeful spout rhetoric approximately Muslims that wouldn’t sound out of place in 1930s Nuremberg, or in a month when people were slaughtered for attending a holiday party for disabled adults in San Bernardino—but some pretty great things happened in 2015.
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