“That’s 2020 for you: the good guys have masks and tattoos, and the suspects get questioned while spread over the hoods of their luxury vehicles.” The Columnist writes about the image that best sums up this crazy year, and speaks with the photojournalist who took it. 

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The Columnist is a podcast designed to help us understand what is happening in the world one conversation at a time. 

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