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Monday headlines: Year two

In leaked recordings of a one-hour phone call, President Trump urges Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat. / The Washington Post

Carl Bernstein: This is “far worse” than what occurred in the Watergate scandal. / Huffpost

All 10 living former defense secretaries say that involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory. / The Washington Post

What to expect in Georgia’s special election for two key Senate seats tomorrow. / PBS

Iran resumes enriching uranium. China vows revenge after three telecommunications companies are delisted. / BBC News, CNBC

Ed Yong: Where year two of the pandemic will take us. / The Atlantic

Researchers use game theory to model two ways of prioritizing vaccinations, to see which save more lives. / The New York Times

Helen Branswell: Britain is taking a gamble with Covid-19 vaccines, upping the stakes for the rest of us. / STAT

To ask why Covid hasn’t been deadlier in Africa is to suggest that more Africans should be dying. / Boston Review

A small number of Covid patients who had never experienced mental health problems are developing severe psychotic symptoms. / The New York Times

Unrelated: “Man gets wasted, legally changes name to Celine Dion.” / The New York Post

Between one-third and one-half of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. What if they actually improved our well-being? / The Atlantic

Rachel Sugar: “I have never had as many conversations about the weather as I did in 2020.” / Grubstreet

People don’t want to get back to the office, at least not “the way the office was before.” / The New York Times

Diyora Shadijanova: People still say they can’t wait for things to go back to normal. Isn’t “normality” what drove us here? / It’s Nice That

Spring turned into summer, summer into fall, fall into winter, and there’s still a bucatini shortage. / Grubstreet

The best rap songs of 2020. / Passion of the Weiss