November 2020

Delving into the Payroll Protection Program provides insight into the importance of all of the programs, processes, and people that must be regarded to ensure any significant economic recovery from COVID-19.

Now that our laptops are shopping carts and dogs everywhere have given up barking at postal workers, we’ve become a nation surfing on waves of plastic air pillows.

As we slowly make our transition to a more ‘normal’ society, I urge us to discuss the issues surrounding how we implement COVID vaccines. How we conduct ourselves in the coming months can save countless lives.

Many politicians – on both sides of the aisle – treat the term socialist as if it is just a notch above social deviant. The truth is that we all benefit from socialist ideals.

While Republicans have privately been on tenterhooks, wondering when they can cut Trump and move on, he has given them a clear answer: Over my dead body.

Upon returning to the Pentagon, my boss, a no-nonsense Assistant Secretary of Defense, made sure we had gotten the message from President Bush: we had a duty to the new administration to help them take over this mission. I had to make sure, in a manner of speaking, to “let them know where the landmines are.”

The next party system is beginning to take shape, and it is doing so in places that people wouldn’t think to look: amongst socially liberal suburbanites and socially conservative minorities. 

Unless we expand our definition of public health and recognize the value of investing in it, the next global health crisis will be equally as disastrous as our current predicament.

Realizing that he has not won a second term in the White House, President Trump has decided to figuratively burn it to the ground. He will not cooperate in the transition of power to a new administration, and he is intent on making the work of the next president as difficult as possible.

While preliminary data for vaccine effectiveness is promising, the reality is that we will be dealing with the menace of COVID-19 for the foreseeable future. It takes time for a population to achieve this vaccine-acquired herd immunity. There will inevitably be hiccups in vaccine distribution.