Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

No One Predicted 2020. But How About 2021?

We don’t know what the new year will bring, but we can guess.

January 1, 2021 at 1:00 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

Who knows what tomorrow may bring?
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Once again, I offer my predictions for the year to come. But first I will perform the ritual that every prognosticator should: reviewing how I did at predicting the year now ending. So before I get to my predictions for 2021, let’s see how I did in 2020. (Scroll down if you just want to see what I think about the coming year.)

Now we come to my predictions for 2021. Do bear in mind that not all are seriously meant: