pandemic

The novel coronavirus, officially dubbed SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes (COVID-19) have continued to surprise all of us. And the surprises have been uniformly negative.

Despite COVID-19 being a public health crisis, we have politicized our understanding of the disease.

As of today, the American death toll from COVID-19 stands at more than 69,000, according to Johns Hopkins.

DAY 1 Was it just last winter when we left the New Year's Eve party in a snit because we couldn't dance to the music selected by the "younger group" living in our retirement community?

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

My generation, the Boomers, are not shy in expressing their opinions, but what about those of us, slightly older, the generation of the Korean war, so “inconsequential” that their name is “The Silent Generation,” lost between the Greatest Gene

The coronavirus pandemic we are experiencing today has been contemplated by some of the world’s best scientists for at least the last 30 years.

Because of advances in transporting ourselves quickly across the world, contagious diseases can be easily spread.

The Spanish Flu of 1918, which caused a pandemic, is estimated to have killed about 2% of the world population, a death toll greater than the military deaths of World

Government intelligence agencies get a lot of criticism when things go wrong but rarely receive any praise when things go right. That's because, when things go wrong, they often go disastrously wrong; but when things go right...