The Hospital Crisis of Our Making
We had to destroy the hospitals to save them. You could be forgiven for thinking that’s the upshot of the coronavirus lockdowns that have suspended elective surgeries and generally discouraged…
AS AMERICANS GROW RESTLESS, THE POLITICAL CLASS IS TRYING EVADE ACCOUNTABILITY
The COVID-19 crisis has taken America to places no one thought possible. The social lockdown ordered by so many governors to “flatten the curve” has turned into a kind of…
Will America 2.0 see a revaluation of labor?
Entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Cuban has coined the term, “America 2.0” to designate the new realities Americans will face as a result of the COVID-19 quarantine. One of those realities has been the…
Cashing in on the COVID Crisis
The American people usually put their differences aside in troubling times, pull together, and keep moving forward. The COVID crisis has proven the exception. Whether it’s because it set upon…
California Law Limiting Independent Contractors is Hindering Coronavirus Response, Experts Say
Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday rebuffed calls to suspend a controversial labor law that experts say hinders the state’s pandemic response and hurts vulnerable workers. State and federal…
What will happen on Main Street?
The total shut-down of American activity will soon be drawing to an end, one area at a time. When we look around us at the world of shutters and silence,…
PELOSI TO SMALL BUSINESSES: LET THEM EAT ICE CREAM
Students of history will no doubt recall how Marie Antoinette, when told the French people were starving and asking for bread, supposedly said: “Let them eat cake.” It is a…
Giving More Control to China Won’t Fix the U.S. Economy
Pre-coronavirus, America’s economy was booming. Now we have an economic pandemic but some proposed cures could be worse than the disease. The economic stoppage has been as drastic as chemotherapy…
United Airlines Must Help America Defeat COVID-19
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz sent a letter via email to United’s customers thanking America for the financial assistance that will help the airlines survive while air travel is on virtual lockdown.…
Sea-Air-Space 2020 Virtual Edition: U.S. Maritime Administration
As the Jones Act enters its second century, much is still misunderstood about the law and its impact on the U.S. economy and national security. This forum provides a fact-based…
Ukraine On Life Support
The innumerable pathways of history to successes or failures are richly paved with a plethora of knowledgeable, yet in many cases erroneous 20/20 hindsights by contemporary as well as future…
Coronavirus Makes The National Security Case For Rebuilding U.S. Maritime Power Compelling
When Rear Admiral Mark Buzby, head of the U.S. Maritime Administration, testified before Congress last year about strategies for bolstering the maritime industry, a striking fact was embedded in his…
Coronavirus Authoritarianism Is Getting Out of Hand
It’s reasonable to assume that the vast majority of Americans process news and data, and calculate that self-quarantining, wearing masks, and social distancing make sense for themselves, their families, and the…
YES, WE NEED A 9/11-STYLE CORONAVIRUS COMMISSION—APPOINTED BY TRUMP | OPINION
When last seen, California Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff was off licking his wounds following the United States Senate’s refusal to ratify his assertion President Donald Trump had acted in a…
In the Current Crisis, Postal Preservation Must Come Before Postal Reform
America is – and for some time will be — a long way from what any of us would describe as normal. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has us living in…