September 2020

The first debate was a disaster but buried underneath the chaos, a young Joe Biden was sticking it to the schoolyard bullies and showing courage in the face of a lifelong impediment.

Security Theater is an excellent tool for calming a distressed population with a reassurance that they’re not out in the wild alone and left to fend for themselves. Still, there is a time and place where it works and a time and place where a heavily divided electorate requires more to help ensure the smooth transition of power, which may seem like a distant memory come November.

There’s so much talk today about “defunding the police.” The sound bite has morphed into many different interpretations – ranging from the reallocation of funds to dissolving entire police forces and rebuilding them from the ground up. I have a different idea: Let’s require police officers to carry liability insurance.

Whatever other surprises lie in store, Donald Trump has made clear that he will pronounce anything short of an outright victory in November – a landslide even – the result of massive voter fraud.

In keeping with the trend of election time, some voters are researching countries to move to if the unimaginable happens. But what if you don’t want to leave your country of great jazz, baseball, and coffee-to-go behind?

It is not just a coincidence. We are witnessing the mechanisms of systemic racism delegitimize the rights and concerns of minority people.

Picture saving democracy by Federal Express, Amazon, UPS, and others accepting ballots at trucks, drop boxes, and storefronts around the country.

While tracking the crisis of COVID-19 at various scales, including molecular, epidemiological, and medical applications, AI can significantly help in developing proper treatment plans and prevention strategies.

In Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s fight for equal protection under the law, I see how it impacted my own story.