24 Incredible Stories That Explain 2024
2024 has been a year of unprecedented headlines — even for an election year.
The conviction of Donald Trump. An assassination attempt just weeks later. An abrupt end to Joe Biden’s candidacy, followed by the rise and fall of Kamala Harris. It was a historically chaotic and consequential year on the campaign trail, and beyond. America saw intense protests on campus colleges over the Israel-Hamas war, a rising gender divide among the youth and the kind of widening polarization that can even fracture families.
It might have been too many events to fully process in one year, so POLITICO Magazine has you covered. Check out these 24 stories — many of them our top reads of the year — that will help you understand what just happened and what’s to come under Trump 2.0.