Current events are news stories about important world issues. They are often used as teaching tools to help students understand the impact of global politics, critical government decisions, medical discoveries and technology advances, and natural disasters. Educators also assign Current events to students to develop their research, writing, and editing skills.
This year will see a growing recognition that no balance of power lasts forever, and that the future is unlikely to be as safe or prosperous for most people as it has been in recent decades. This will be most evident in the vortex of instability spanning Africa to central Asia, where the greatest dangers lie: climate change is most severe here; nuclear weapons are proliferating fastest; and the great powers vie for influence and resources across a region that is both richer and more populous than ever before.
Institutional journalism will face enormous pressures in 2025 as technology reshapes audiences’ way of finding and consuming information, while facing attacks from hostile politicians who seek to undermine its role in fostering informed democratic debate. Expect more layoffs at major news outlets as they struggle to attract audience attention online, and to battle changes to search algorithms that increasingly favor partisan sources and AI interfaces that generate ‘story-like’ answers to news queries.
In 2025, there will be a new urgency to rethink what it means to live in cities that are too large and complex for any single power to control. In cities that embrace change, prosperity will flourish; in those that resist it, internal and cross-border conflict will grow along with social friction.
