2020 has been – by all definitions – an intense year. The COVID-19 pandemic and an awakening to the systemic racism at play in many of the world’s institutions have caused profound suffering and exposed deep-rooted injustice. These world-changing events have also raised fundamental questions about the beat The New Humanitarian covers. The pandemic has highlighted the scale of the challenge in responding to humanitarian needs that are now worldwide. What do you do when the whole world is in crisis? And the police shootings of unarmed black men in America have forced us to re-examine what counts as a humanitarian crisis and the implicit biases that underlie such definitions.