Our favorite op-eds from readers in 2020 | Opinion Updated Jan 04, 2021; There were plenty of opinions in 2020. Should the president be impeached? Should we shut down the economy? How do we make Black lives matter? Should we replace a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the twilight of a president’s term? And we published hundreds of views on those issues and others. We’ve picked some of our favorites from a very tumultuous year. Just click the headline to read the entire piece. “Don’t be afraid of Covid.” Those are five of the most thoughtless, insensitive and painful words I have ever read in my life. How could you say such a thing when over 200,000 Americans have tragically lost their lives to this devastating and deadly virus? How many people are grieving the loss of a loved one like I am, only to have those five words reopen our wounds that we are still trying to heal from?