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| Hi there, friends of The Short List! I'm Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY newsletter writer. 🙋♀️ We're back and rested from a holiday break and ready for 2023. But before we dive into the new year, here is some of the outstanding journalism our newsroom published in 2022. |
| 🟡 War crimes in Ukraine are unprecedented. Teams of Ukrainian and international investigators, prosecutors, police, security services, and forensic and ballistics experts are investigating dozens of deaths for war crimes committed by Russia's military. USA TODAY spent weeks following these investigators. |
 | | A girl rides a kick scooter past a destroyed residential building in the village of Horenka, Kyiv region, on June 4, 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | | SERGEI CHUZAVKOV, AFP via Getty Images | |
| 🏃♀️ The legacy of Title IX at 50. In a unique series, USA TODAY took a deep dive into Title IX – which bans sex discrimination across all aspects of education, including athletics and sexual harassment – and its shortfalls that leave athletes struggling for equity. |
| 📈 We tracked how inflation is pushing Americans into tough financial choices. Facing high prices, lagging wages, dwindling savings and mounting credit card debt, the nation faced a time like no other. Our reporters talked to the faces coping with this new economic reality. |
| 🗨 The untold story of accountability in Uvalde showed how three friends made a plan to seek justice after law enforcement waited 77 minutes until U.S. Border Patrol agents finally entered the classroom at Robb Elementary School on May 24 to kill the shooter. |
 | | May 27, 2022: Mourners place flowers, candles and tokens on crosses for each of the Robb Elementary School shooting victims at a memorial put up in the Uvalde Town Square. | | Sara Diggins, Austin American-Statesman/USA TODAY NETWORK | |
| 🟣 The right to abortion was overturned. Our newsroom looked at what that means for female college athletes. And our reporters explored disparities in maternal mortality rates, especially for people of color. |
| 🔵 Two years after George Floyd's death, where does America's racial reckoning stand? Black women still denied top jobs at largest companies and only two Latinas have been CEO of a Fortune 500 company. |
| ⚽ USA TODAY's critical look at Qatar's World Cup revealed more than 6,500 migrant workers reportedly died to make the 2022 tournament possible. The host country only admits to a handful of these deaths. |
| 😅 What is the future of comedy? USA TODAY reflected seriously on what makes us laugh, how the next generation of internet-driven comics are staying authentic, the use of stereotypes in jokes and the legacy of punching up. |
| There are more of this week's must reads below 👇 See you next week! |
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