1. “To pause and look back is a revelation.” See the photos that our editors chose for The Year in Pictures, including the image above, of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar.

“It’s a cliché to remark that the time has moved quickly and slowly all at once,” our writer Amanda Hess says in an accompanying essay. “But one of the dark powers of our devices is to bend time, to suck us into the screen and spit us out seemingly months later. To study these photos is to be perpetually surprised at everything that happened this year.”