Covid-19

Navigating Via Rearview Mirror: Toxic Leadership, Groupthink and the Management Mess that Led to a Public Health Catastrophe

Viruses occur in nature.  So do epidemics.  But where most of the world’s leading economies managed the COVID crisis well…

Read More »

200,000 Dead by August? Who Will Be Held Accountable for the Crimes Now Being Committed Against the American People?

The Trump Administration and its allies in key statehouses are suppressing vital data about the spread of COVID.  Without that…

Read More »

The Song of the Summer of 2020 is Likely to Be a Sad One

To commemorate the beginning of summer, we take a look at the issues likely to dominate the headlines between now…

Read More »

The COVID Prognosis is Bleak

Everywhere you go, you get the sense that people are “over” COVID…except the hospitals that are filling up across the country. …

Read More »

A Category 5 Global Economic Hurricane is Looming

According to economist Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard’s Kennedy School, the economic crisis triggered by the COVID pandemic is going to…

Read More »

What Fresh Hell Is This? Or This? And What About This One Over Here?

As if a public health catastrophe and an economic disaster were not enough, America is now rocked by the worst…

Read More »

The Crisis Enters a New Phase: Are We Making Progress or Simply Facing or Even Creating New Risks?

America is re-opening.  Whether we should be or not is beside the point.  It is happening.  So the question becomes…

Read More »

Under Cover of Covid: While One Crisis Commands Our Attention Others are Brewing

COVID has taken such a ghastly human and economic toll that people can speak of or think of little else. …

Read More »

Rosie the Riveter Would Have Worn a Mask–Trump Must Too

Donald Trump likes to talk a lot about being a wartime president. But wartime presidents lead by example and inspire…

Read More »

Our Next Great National Challenge is to Rebuild Our Economy: Where Do We Begin? – Full Video

Almost 40 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past 8 weeks.  That is a quarter of the workforce. …

Read More »

Kill the Body and the Head Will Fall

In boxing, repeated body blows are seen as a way to bring down an adversary.  We will soon see whether…

Read More »

Lost at a Crossroads in History

I just don’t get the sense we have fully grasped the profundity of what is happening all around us. History…

Read More »

DSR Network Highlights and Announcements – Week of May 4, 2020

Announcements New Membership Offerings Video – As we’re now recording our episodes using Zoom, we’re providing full video episodes for…

Read More »

Do We Need a Marshall Plan for the United States America?

With more than 33 million people claiming unemployment insurance in the past six weeks, 75,000 reported dead of COVID, 1.3…

Read More »

We Were Warned: A Conversation with Rep. Ted Lieu

Congressman Ted Lieu of California played a leading role in the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings and so he remembers…

Read More »

We Can’t Handle the Truth! (And the Truth Doesn’t Give a Damn) – Full Video

60,000 Americans are dead. 1 million are infected. And those are just the official numbers. 30 million are unemployed. And Jared Kushner declares “Success!” And…

Read More »

We Can’t Handle the Truth! (And the Truth Doesn’t Give a Damn)

60,000 Americans are dead.  1 million are infected.  And those are just the official numbers.  30 million are unemployed.  And…

Read More »

Taking a Closer Look at that Oncoming Train

The President of the United States keeps talking about the light at the end of the tunnel.  But even his…

Read More »

What Do We Do in Lieu of a President?: The View from the Medical and the Political Front Lines

As Angela Merkel observed this week, we are just in the first stages of this crisis.  As many Americans have observed,…

Read More »

The Upside of the Apocalypse

While we are making some headway on flattening the curve when it comes to coronavirus in some parts of the…

Read More »