In tumultuous times, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris emerged the historic winners of a momentous election. Democrats held onto the House as the Senate awaited two runoff elections in Georgia. In California, Prop 22 passed amidst massive corporate spending, reversing existing pro-worker law. A second wave of coronavirus flared and reopenings were put on hold. We honored our veterans, analyzed the economics of international container trades in the e-commerce era, looked at the local effects of the pandemic on rents and vacancies, reported on travel restrictions, the long hurricane season, shipping cyber attacks and the wide sweep of election outcomes in this issue.