Our first episode of 2019 opened the year with a question: “What will Democrats do with their new power?” One of our last offered an answer: impeach the president.

The weeks in between were filled with sounds both familiar and foreign. The year began with the same fights as in 2018, including a federal furlough that stretched into the longest government shutdown in history. And cities across America again heard the sound of gunfire: There have been more mass shootings in 2019 in the country than there are days in the year.