Congressional leaders vowed Wednesday to fire law enforcement chiefs amid bipartisan anger that a mob was able to easily enter the Capitol building, putting everyone inside in danger.
From Wuhan outbreak to exponential spread : How COVID-19 dominated the year 2020 Abby Haglage
What began as rumblings of a strange, pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 escalated to a pandemic the likes of which the world has never seen. 2020, in turn, was a year of upheaval, a year of both loss and of hope, a year that will be remembered in the history books.
As of this week, more than 21 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19 and over 360,000 have died. Initially, many treated the virus as if it was someone else’s problem, a problem for seafood markets in China and cruise ships quarantined off the coast of Japan, that set off a wave of anti-Asian harassment and assaults that would last through the year.
Ariel Dorfman writes that Americans can take heart in the fact that Joe Biden is due to replace Donald Trump on Jan. 20, but the nation has to repair its democracy to make sure that there's no repeat of the abuses we've seen from the Trump administration.
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Planned Parenthood s Alexis McGill Johnson on What She s Fighting For in 2021 Courtesy of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
What s left to say about 2020? The year was relentless, for all of us. Zora Neale Hurston wrote: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” 2020 gave us answers, though not always the ones we wanted.
It taught us hard lessons about who we are and what we’re up against. More than 342,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. The pandemic has caused economic devastation and revealed deep disparities in health access and care for Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities, caused by centuries of systemic racism. We lost a progressive giant, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Trump administration continued its four-year onslaught on reproductive rights, despite the nation being consumed by a pandemi