With the news moving at breakneck speed this year, it was easy to miss remarkable stories — or open them in a tab with the best intentions to read them eventually.

But with the end of the year upon us, it’s time to go back and highlight the stellar journalism other publications produced in 2017. We present this year’s list of stories we wish we’d written.

And while we’re talking jealousy, we’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge Bloomberg Businessweek had the idea for this list first — so hop on over there if you want some more of the green-eyed monster.

Every Parent Wants to Protect Their Child. I Never Got the Chance.

Story by Jen Gann, photographs by Elinor Carucci, New York

Jen Gann writes honestly about her young son’s devastating cystic fibrosis diagnosis — a diagnosis that was missed in a prenatal test. Gann grapples with the idea that if she)