New Year, new stories. Here are your 2021 long reads 🗞

Happy 2021, Short Listers! 

In this first Saturday edition, we're keeping it simple and highlighting some stories to help you look forward on the first weekend of the year:

• Reason to be optimistic: Here's what the stock market is predicting for 2021
• 2020 changed the U.S. What will 2021 bring? In politics, we're staring down 'a big fork in the road'
• New year, new laws: 2021 brings several changes across the nation, including minimum wage jumps in Florida and Virginia and a sunscreen ban in Hawaii

Want more? We've got you covered 👇