The Short List

Sat Dec 30 2023

John Riley | Audience Editor

A year of great reads.

☀️Good morning, friends! I'm John Riley, newsletter editor, and I hope you're enjoying a happy and healthy holiday season. Made any plans for New Year's Eve?🎆

This week, we're looking back at the outstanding journalism our newsroom produced this year. Below are some of USA TODAY's best stories of 2023.⬇️

As the year ends, I want to take a moment to thank you for supporting The Short List.👏🏻 Here's to a great 2024!

Runaway children don't get as much attention as other missing kids

Aug 18, 2022; Concord, NC, USA; Jaquan Holley-Grishamand his mother, Mozell Jones-Grisham hold a homemade poster inside Mozell's room at the Embassy Suites in Concord, North Carolina. Mozell Jones-Grisham's son Domonique Holley-Grisham disappeared from his family home in Rochester, NY in February of 2009. The 16-year-old was home with his youngest brother and his mother's best friend when he received a phone call. After picking up the phone Domonique walked out of his house never to be seen again. Mandatory Credit: Michael Hensdill for USA TODAY

Police may not look for missing children who run away, and they don't get Amber Alerts.

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More than 1 in 10 Americans has been diagnosed with diabetes.

We know how to prevent and control Type 2 diabetes. So why aren't we?

USA TODAY's Health team spoke with scores of experts to understand why, despite solutions, more Americans continue to struggle with Type 2 diabetes.

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Lyle Ashouwak (left) and Anthony Abell (right) drop crab pots off the Fishing Vessel Insatiable. As the oceans' temperatures rise, fishermen everywhere are forced to adapt to harvesting different species. Garrett Kavanaugh, captain of the Fishing Vessel Insatiable out of the port of Kodiak Island, has made large investments in equipment, fuel and labor, betting on Dungeness crabs as the future of his Alaskan fishing business.

Alaska's snow crabs suddenly vanished. Will history repeat itself?

In Alaska, last fall's shocking collapse of the snow crab fishery shows that conditions for sea life can and are rapidly changing.

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Aurelia Casey has a full-time job and babysits to supplement her income, and she's still not sure she can ever afford to raise a family in New York.

Why Gen Z, millennials feel what their parents had is 'impossible now'

A recent survey found two-thirds of Americans believe younger generations are facing hardships today that previous generations didn't.

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Family and friends of Jose Quezada gather in the square where he was gunned down three months earlier for an unveiling of

This man had an answer to America's gun problem. Were we listening?

In a country with more guns than people, a lot of lives can end up in the shadows. That's why we're supposed to have people like Coach.

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The angry while male is now a subject of study at KU.

Narcissists find these types of people irresistible

Plenty of people have a "type" when it comes to dating. Narcissists are no exception. Are you a narcissist magnet? Empaths often attract them.

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Massachusetts police routinely labeled men with Hispanic surnames as white on traffic citations, skewing statistics that can expose racial bias.

'White? I'm not white.' Police labeling analysis reveals a problematic trend

Massachusetts police routinely label men with Hispanic surnames as white on traffic citations, skewing statistics meant to expose racial bias.

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Ashton Grant, Browns offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach, before the game on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

This NFL coaching position 'has plagued' league's diversity efforts

The road to becoming an NFL offensive coordinator is confoundingly steep for coaches of color, according to data from USA TODAY's NFL Coaches Project.

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