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That can be stressful and painful, but from it can spring forth so many good things. Whether, as in our evocative photo essays and trends pieces this issue, we step into that more generative space by crossing boundaries and blazing paths or, as in our special election reflections, by bringing our knowledge to bear on pressing social problems, we believe this first issue<br /> of the year illuminates an irrevocable insight: agency, like the contexts in which we live our lives, matters鈥攁nd it provides an inextinguishable spark of hope amid the sting of heartbreak.</div> <div class="row"> <div class="buy top-1 col-lg-7 col-sm-6 "> <a class='btn btn-default' href="https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctxa/24/1">Download this issue</a> </div> <div class="issue-nav top-1 col-lg-5 col-sm-6"> <div class="nav-links"> <a class='btn btn-default' href="https://contexts.org/issues/f24/">Previous</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="issue-nav"> </div> </div> <div class=' post-issue'> <h2><a href="https://contexts.org/articles/eds-w25/">letter from the editors: winter 2025</a></h2> <div class="byline">Seth Abrutyn and Amin Ghaziani | </div> <p>And so begins our end. 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