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The new year approaches, marking an end to a truly unexpected trip around the sun. This week, On the Media reflects on our 2020 coverage, from the pandemic to the global uprising to the rise of the anti-majoritarian right. 

With excerpts from:

  1. The Virality of Virality, January 31, 2020
  2. Epidemic Voyeurs No More, February 28, 2020
  3. Infectious Diseases Show Societies Who They Really Are, March 6, 2020
  4. Why The Toilet Paper Shortage Makes More Sense Than You Think, April 10, 2020
  5. Is The Pandemic Making Us Numb To One Another's Pain?, December 11, 2020
  6. Is This 'Unrest' or an 'Uprising'?, June 5, 2020
  7. Why Activists Are Demanding That Cities "Defund the Police", June 12, 2020
  8. Movements, Sanitized In Hindsight, June 19, 2020
  9. Imprecision 2020, November 5, 2020
  10. They Prepared for War With Antifa. Antifa Never Came., June 12, 2020
  11. With #SaveTheChildren Rallies, QAnon Sneaks Into The Offline World, August 26, 2020
  12. The Ancient Heresy That Helps Us Understand QAnon, November 20, 2020
  13. The Right's Long History of Ignoring the Will of the People, November 6, 2020
  14. Against Democracy, October 9, 2020

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