Best of 2020

OK, it was a terrible, awful, not-very-good year, and the first months of 2021 will also be hard. But we are turning the corner.

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• Sergio Infante, “Time Is Out of Joint: Simultaneity in the epoch of the near and far.” (July 16, 2020)

• Musa al-Gharbi, “Amy Cooper: The Paradox of the Shameless White Liberal: How pious white anti-racism can contribute to racist behavior.” (May 29, 2020)

• Phyllis Dietrichson, “Behind Bars in the Age of Coronavirus: A letter from prison.” (June 18, 2020)

• Tarun José Kattumana, “Understanding the Fear of Vaccines: How to talk about public health in the age of COVID.” (July 21, 2020)

• Emily Sandercock, “QAnon Will Outlast Trumpism: How a conspiracy theory was born in the Great War and made its way into the 21st century.” (December 27, 2020)

• Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil and Selen A. Ercan, “Five Lessons for Democracy From the Covid-19 Pandemic: An international evaluation of democracy in crisis.” (October 29, 2020)

• Karyn Lacy, “Why We Shouldn’t Try to Erase America’s Racist Past: Twitter’s misguided attempts at censorship.” (August 25, 2020)

• Jo Freeman, “How to Suppress the Vote: One of the Constitution’s original provisions, delegating elections to the states, haunts us today.” (November 2, 2020)

• John Ehrenreich, “The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longer View: Decades of bad policies brought us to this point: we need to reckon with that as a nation.” (May 7, 2020)

• Andrew Weiner, “Why the U.S. Should Convene a 2021 Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Lessons from the 1871 congressional Ku Klux Klan hearings.” (November 2, 2020)