Take a look back at the top stories of 2020
and last updated 2020-12-30 16:18:01-05
The year 2020 will go down as one of the craziest in our lifetimes. From the coronavirus and its many effects, to a crazy political season, take a look back on the top stories that defined the past 12 months.
January
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle step back from roles
This strange year started off with a shift in the royal family. On Jan. 8, Britainâs Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, announced that they would step back as âseniorâ members of the royal family. Instead, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said they would split time between Europe and North America in 2020. On Instagram, they said they hoped to carve out a more progressive role and wanted to become financially independent.
It was the year superlatives fell short.
From a jam-packed January that opened in the midst of a presidential primary and plunged head-long into only the third impeachment trial in the nation s history, to February and its leap day, which couldn t explain why it felt like the month that would never end, until March arrived and time slowed to a glacial crawl â from the start, 2020 was all about jerking from one extreme to the next. Weâve had a pandemic with the flu in 1918; weâve had economic strife with the Great Recession and the Great Depression; weâve had civil unrest in the late 60s, early 70s. But we havenât had them all at the same time,â said Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen last summer, before the divisive election that also played out against that backdrop.
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WASHINGTON To say that 2020 has been an eventful year in the nation’s capital is an understatement.
Amid a global pandemic, a bitter race for the presidency and protests over police brutality, news in Washington never let up. As the year winds to an end, let’s take a look back at the moments of most drama, controversy, shock and sadness that headlined an exhausting 2020 in D.C.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tears up the president’s speech during the State of the Union
Following President Donald Trump’s impeachment by the U.S. House in December 2019, he was invited by Pelosi to give his State of the Union address on the House floor on Feb. 4.
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon
Michael Minasi
Gabriel C. Pérez
Ivan Zaplatar and Cole Kershner (foreground) attend an outdoor graduation ceremony in the West Austin neighborhood of Highland Park on May 26.
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon
Austin police officers force protesters off I-35 during a nationwide demonstration May 30 against police brutality and systematic racism after the killing of George Floyd.
Gabriel C. Pérez
Police officers face off with protesters on I-35 in downtown Austin, during a demonstration May 31 against police brutality and racism.
Michael Minasi
Demonstrators protesting police violence disperse after officers deploy tear gas on I-35 near Austin police headquarters on May 31.
June
Jewish Currents 2020 Year in Review
2020 HAS BEEN A YEAR of protest and political upheaval, set against the backdrop of illness, isolation, and death. Throughout this tumultuous year, we have sought to articulate a new vision for Jewish political engagement, and to provide our readers with the intellectual resources to better understand and reimagine their place in the world. As 2020 draws to a close, we’re looking back on the work we published this year. Here’s a selection of some of the pieces that made the biggest impact.
In March, as Covid-19 upended our world, we struggled to reassess our relationship to work. In her essay “No One Is Well,” Editor-in-Chief Arielle Angel reflected on that question and concluded that to pry open political possibility in a catastrophic moment, “we will need to begin to replace the logics of capitalism with the logics of care.” And in a subsequent staff roundtable, we discussed and debated the nature of our responsibility in the moment