We Regret These Errors

A disclosure of everything we wish we could change, 2025 edition

Back in the Gilded Age of alt weeklies, The Stranger in Seattle would publish a popular regrets pullout at the end of each calendar year. It was a comical twist on the classic newspaper correction issued for a spelling mistake or incorrect fact.

I thought back to it this year, a particularly tough year personally and in the world, and realized that I, t…