Amid all the tentpoles and remakes, some genuine cinematic imagination found its way onto screens large and small this year.

A difficult year yields excellent writing.

A short guide to some of the best reads from the past year.

What have we learned during the past year, and how does it stack up against what was predicted?

Our top ten essays from a year of political upheaval.

In 2016, Russia surpassed Germany, and Israel joined the list for the first time.

2016 wasn’t just about winning. For a lot of people, and not a few ideas, 2016 was a year for losing. As the world settles into the Age of Trump, here is our list of the Biggest Losers of 2016.

2016 was all about winning; Donald Trump promised that if the American people put him in the White House, we would win so much we would get tired of winning. Whatever happens next, there is no doubt that the Orange One was the mega-winner of the year. 2016 will always be remembered as the year that Donald Trump, a political novice and reality television show host, cut the legs off America’s two most powerful political dynasties and flabbergasted the establishments of both political parties.

Trump broke all the rules; he had less money than his principal opponents in both the primary and the general election campaigns. He trampled over the normal conventions, survived blunders that would have sunk other candidates, and turning the hatred of the media and the political and cultural establishments into a major asset.

But if Donald Trump dominated the year, he wasn’t the only winner in one of the most eventful and surprising years in recent memory. Here is our take on who else left their mark on 2016.

We gave you the winners; now here are their opposites.

In terms of power and position, here’s who came out on top last year.