by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Donald Trump
Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’ About 50 people gathered this month for a party in the upscale suburb of Westport, then scattered across the region and the world, taking the coronavirus with them. About 50 guests gathered...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 24, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race
Fmr. NSC director calls for Defense Production Act to be implemented Dr. Luciana Borio and Beth Cameron discuss the impact of Trump’s dismantling of the NSC pandemic unit. Cameron served at the NSC under President...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 22, 2020 | Coronavirus, Science
The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming Larry Brilliant says he doesn’t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 21, 2020 | • Politics, Democracy
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How. For many Americans right now, the scale of the coronavirus crisis calls to mind 9/11 or the 2008 financial crisis-events that reshaped society in lasting ways, from how we travel and buy homes, to the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 21, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump
Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done. WASHINGTON – The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 21, 2020 | • Politics, Democracy, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy? In London, in the nineteen-thirties, the émigré Hungarian intellectual Karl Polanyi was known among his friends as “the apocalyptic chap.” His gloom was understandable. Nearly fifty, he’d had to leave his wife,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 19, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump
NYT: Jared Kushner Advised Trump Media Was Exaggerating Coronavirus Jared Kushner advised President Donald Trump at the start of the global coronavirus outbreak that the media was exaggerating its threat, according to a New York Times report detailing how the White...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 19, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Last Straw Well, it finally isn’t funny anymore – the grandiosity, the ignorance, the cruelty, the bullying, the racism, the petty insults and incessant stupidity. But especially the non-stop lying. The greatest asset that a president can bring to a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 19, 2020 | Coronavirus, Science
All the times Bill Gates has warned us about a deadly pandemic like coronavirus For many, the coronavirus pandemic seemed to come out of nowhere, an unexpected crisis that we couldn’t have been prepared for. But some people have actually been warning of a global...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 16, 2020 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs, On Liberalism
Why neoliberal capitalism and the common good are incompatible If the response to coronavirus has accomplished anything, it is reminding us of the basic principle of our society. I say “principle,” which is singular, because there is really only one. It is...
