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At this time of year, The New York Times’ Travel desk usually publishes its lavish 52 Places to Go list, a compendium of suggestions for the destinations that are especially worth visiting in the coming year, accompanied by show-stopping photography. But in this pandemic year, creating our usual list was out of the question.
Your Friday Briefing Good morning. Washington, a new study of in-flight coronavirus transmission and our Travel Desk’s 52 places to love (since who knows when we’ll go anywhere). As the world watches, a wounded U.S. remains in turmoil Image Since World War II, much of Europe has looked to the U.S. as a democratic model. The headlines in newspapers around the world on Thursday showed something else. The images of a mob overrunning the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday touched a nerve in fractured Western societies, our Paris bureau chief writes: If it could happen at democracy’s heart...