Best read of 2025

By hola | Published December 29, 2025

Out of everything we published in 2025, these stories attracted the largest number of views. Before ringing in the new year, check them out!

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Most Viewed Stories

Movie review: “Reinas,” a story about separation and reconnection

Hand holding a copy of Women Surrounded by Water by Patricia Coral

Literature-Literatura
On April 4, 2025

Patricia Coral on hybridity and memoirs in “Women Surrounded by Water”

Insect platter that includes chapulines (grasshoppers), chicatanas (flying leaf-cutter ants) and escamoles (ant larvae)

A new crunch: How restaurants nationwide are adding insects to the menu, honoring Mexican traditions

Catholic University is the top deforester in D.C. since 2020, largely due to the removal of more than 300 trees to make way for the installation of a massive solar farm on its campus. Credit: Darrow Montgomery/file

The Shade Gap: How Development Is Taking a Toll on D.C.’s Tree Canopy, Putting Human Health At Risk

Main cast members in the film Emilia Pérez

Emilia Pérez: The most controversial film of the year?

Oral History team interns tour of East Boston with neighborhood resident and researcher Josh Lown

From land takings to gentrification, East Boston has seen generations of ‘lost futures’

Mural from the Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral). Both the mural and the church were destroyed in the 2010 earthquake.

Catch “Spirit and Strength: Modern Art From Haiti” at the National Gallery of Art before it closes

Endangered Latine Landmarks graphic showcasing the Unity Mural

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Hola Cultura
On September 10, 2025

Unity Mural wins national recognition as an Endangered Latinx Landmark

Orquesta Manplesa’s salsa para la gente (for the people)

April 20, 2025 march in support of immigrants in East Boston, Mass.

Anti-immigration policies create widespread fear and mobilization

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