2023 saw extreme weather events — and their normalization

University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade talks about efforts in states such as Maine, Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment's insurrection ban. And, by all accounts, a year of weather extremes: the most powerful storms, the hottest recorded temperatures, the deadliest wildfires. New York Times writer David Wallace-Wells says it was also a year of normalization — where events that once would have terrified us have simply become part of the landscape. He talks about the year's most important climate stories, including a few that bring hope. Then, NPR's Neda Ulaby remembers the musicians who passed away this year, including Sinead O'Connor, Tina Turner and Tony Bennett.

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