With a planless New Years' Eve barrelling down on us, I've given in to retrospection—a messy business, especially after a year like this one. It was a bad one, quite likely among the worst of many Americans' lifetimes. Every glimmer of good felt tempered by more bad (like the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine as the first case of a n…
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