Lots of interesting opinion in this article from The Hill

At the same time, the year ended much as it had continued for months: In Portland and Philadelphia, federal buildings again were attacked by rioters and looters

reporters are unlikely to return to prior standards of objectivity and independence after years of open bias against President Trump. Indeed, journalism professors now reject the very concept of objectivity in journalism, in favor of open advocacy. Columbia University journalism dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll has denounced what he says is the First Amendment's freedom of speech being "weaponized" to protect disinformation.

... reporters are now invested in the Biden administration, including downplaying or ignoring scandalous allegations against Hunter Biden and Eric Swalwell. Networks now actively tailor their coverage to offer their viewers "safe spaces" free of opposing facts or stories.

Democratic leaders have called for blacklists, disbarments and other actions against those deemed "complicit" in the Trump years;

For de Blasio, dancing in a nearly empty Times Square came across not as amorous but as delirious in a locked-down city with a collapsing economy and soaring crime rates. For many, it reinforced the crisis of leadership facing us in both parties. We have become a nation that seems untethered from economic or political reality.

In one of the most liberal cities on Earth, de Blasio cannot break 40 percent in popularity. However, he, like many other leaders, continues to play to the most extreme elements of his party. As crime raged in New York, de Blasio pushed to cut the police budget by $1 billion and eliminated the NYPD's plain clothes division. In 2020 the city experienced a roughly 50 increase in homicides and almost a 100 percent increase in shootings.