If there’s one phrase that encapsulated 2023 in these United States, it might be “too much information.” Frankly, there are a lot of things we don’t want to know.
But know them we do, thanks to a steady stream of minute-by-minute updates coming to us on an ever-increasing number of platforms. (Threads? Blue Sky? Mastodon? Frankly, we think at least some of these might be made up.) It raises the question: Is any of this deluge of content really important, and if so, what?
So to figure out which people, issues, and events managed to break through the noise in 2023, we went to our most trusted source: Boston.