Today we’re looking back on the stories you read, shared and spent the most time with.
The year began with a love story. Josh Wardle’s partner was a fan of word puzzles, so he created a guessing game for the two of them and called it “Wordle,” a play on his last name. On Jan. 3, a Times article by Daniel Victor brought Wardle’s creation to the wider world. You probably know the rest.
The story about the origins of Wordle, and the bot that helped us master the game, are two of The Times’s most-read articles of 2022. As we have in years past, The Morning has put together a collection of the year’s most popular stories. Some of them were impossible to miss — royal funerals, wars, shootings. But others might surprise you. There are celebrity profiles, engaging mysteries, as well as stories about the body and the mind.
We used a few criteria to capture the breadth of what you were reading. In the most-read section, we omitted later entries that repeated a story line, as well as features like election results pages. The deep engagement list includes some of the articles with which readers spent the most time this year.
And we introduce a new section this year: the most gift-shared. These were the stories that readers unlocked the most this year (subscribers can share 10 links a month outside of the paywall), and the list captures an important but often overlooked part of the news — not the stories that you need to read, but those that you want others to read.
The most read
World mourns Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s bastion of stability. (Sept. 8)
Shooting at elementary school devastates community in South Texas. (May 24)
Ukrainian officials report missile attacks in Kyiv. (Feb. 24)
Police search for gunman in attack on Brooklyn subway. (Apr. 12)
Flooding and power outages grow as Ian moves inland. (Sept. 28)
An old medicine grows new hair for pennies a day, doctors say. (Aug. 18)
Ivana Trump, ex-wife of Donald Trump and businesswoman, dies at 73. (July 14)
Thousands protest end of constitutional right to abortion. (June 24)
Wordle is a love story. (Jan. 3)
Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock after Academy condemns his slap. (Mar. 28)
Deep engagement
Taken under fascism, Spain’s “stolen babies” are learning the truth. (Sept. 27)
The dissenters trying to save Evangelicalism from itself. (Feb. 4)
Ken Auletta finally wrote the Harvey Weinstein story he wanted to tell. (July 7)
Vanished in the Pacific. (Nov. 27)
The judge and the case that came back to haunt him. (Nov. 21)
Tom Stoppard finally looks into his shadow. (Sept. 7)
A messy table, a map of the world. (May 8)
The life and death of Daniel Auster, a son of literary Brooklyn. (July 27)
Willie Nelson’s long encore. (Aug. 17)
Whoopi Goldberg will not shut up, thank you very much. (Sept. 28)
The most gift-shared
Wordlebot: Improve your Wordle strategy.
Billionaire no more: Patagonia founder gives away the company. (Sept. 14)
Can you pass the 10-second balance test? (Aug. 12)
At N.Y.U., students were failing organic chemistry. Who was to blame? (Oct. 3)
Maps: Tracking the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Half the world has a clitoris. Why don’t doctors study it? (Oct. 17)
The root of Haiti’s misery: reparations to enslavers. (May 20)
A neurologist’s tips to protect your memory. (July 6)
The default tech settings you should turn off right away. (July 27)
How simple exercises may save your lower back. (Feb. 25)
THE LATEST NEWS
Winter Storm
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Days after a raging blizzard struck, residents remained trapped in cars and in homes without heat in and around Buffalo, N.Y. The death toll rose to 17.
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In Canada, four people died after a bus crashed on an icy highway.
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A South Korean tour group’s van got stranded in the snow, so they spent the weekend with a Buffalo family.
Other Big Stories
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U.S. police departments have seen a steep drop in applicants since 2020, forcing them to woo recruits with bonuses and attention.
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Feeling new strength after the midterms, Democrats plan to go on the offensive to expand voting access.
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Three buses carrying about 130 migrants arrived from Texas near Vice President Kamala Harris’s home on Christmas Eve.
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Covid seems to be spreading fast in China, even as the government’s official numbers remain low.
Opinions
Arizona’s water crisis is on the verge of becoming a water catastrophe, Natalie Koch argues.
Some blue states have banned state-funded travel to states with laws that discriminate against L.G.B.T.Q. people. But when it comes to research, such bans can be harmful, Aaron Carroll says.
MORNING READS
Travel: In 2022, we dared to explore again.
Metropolitan diary: The local column with a global audience.
Quiz time: How many notable faces of 2022 do you recognize?
A Times classic: Meet your Peloton instructor.
Lives Lived: When Kathy Whitworth joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour in the 1950s, it was a blip on the national sports scene. She became the first woman’s pro golfer to earn $1 million and the record-holder for U.S. tournament wins. Whitworth died at 83.
SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC
Comebacks: The Packers rallied to beat the Dolphins yesterday and got a boost in the playoff sweepstakes. The Buccaneers closed out the weekend with an overtime win against the Cardinals.
The Lakers’ season: A 38-point performance from LeBron James went unrewarded yesterday as Los Angeles dropped its fourth straight game. With Anthony Davis out indefinitely, is it worth trying to bring in reinforcements?
ARTS AND IDEAS
The biggest little stories
The stories at the top of today’s newsletter happened, for the most part, in the real world. But we also spend much of our lives online, where strange or silly things can, at least briefly, feel as momentous as news out of Washington.
Do you remember, for example, that the F.D.A. had to warn people not to cook their chicken in NyQuil? Or that crowds of young people arrived at movie theaters in formal wear for a “Minions” movie, calling themselves the #GentleMinions? People briefly obsessed over a relatable “Sesame Street” clip where Elmo loses his cool over a pet rock. And, of course, there was the New York City boy who really loved corn.
For more recent internet history, check out The Year in Micro News from The Times’s Styles desk.
PLAY, WATCH, EAT
What to Cook
Crackling around the edges with pudding-soft centers: Start the week with French toast.
What to Watch
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” has an old-fashioned impulse to tug at heart strings.
What to Read
“Ghost Music,” An Yu’s second novel, follows a piano teacher who struggles to connect to her husband and mother-in-law over meals of mysterious mushrooms.
Now Time to Play
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were conducted, counted, unconnected and uncounted. Here is today’s puzzle.
Here’s today’s Mini Crossword, and a clue: Hesitate (five letters).
And here’s today’s Wordle.
Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow.
P.S. The Times’s Matt Richtel discussed his reporting about the teen mental health crisis on NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
Here’s today’s front page.
“The Daily” is about Ukrainian refugees.
Matthew Cullen, Lauren Hard, Lauren Jackson, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Tom Wright-Piersanti and Ashley Wu contributed to The Morning. You can reach the team at themorning@nytimes.com.
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