Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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The upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should give us pause. The firing of Director Susan Monarez, followed by the resignation of senior medical officials, illustrates how quickly political interference can destabilize an institution built on expertise and public trust. If history is any guide, the replacements will likely fit a familiar…
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If you have to explain that you are doing something, are you really doing it? If you have to insist that you are influential, but the public only sees absence, can that influence be trusted? These are the questions that define Melania Trump’s second turn as first lady. Her defenders describe her as quietly influential,…
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Back-to-school season is often a time of celebration — fresh notebooks, sharpened pencils, and the promise of new beginnings. But this year feels different. Instead of quiet optimism, it feels like sirens are blaring. In our recent Power Hour — Back to School Special: Ringing the 3-Alarm Fire Bells for Education aire — we dug into the urgent…
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I have been in enough rooms with executives and managers to know what is really said when the microphones are off and the doors are closed. I have heard leaders mock unions. I have heard workers described as lazy (e.g. faculty and staff). I have watched decision-makers joke about “screwing over” union leaders or laugh…
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has presented a sweeping and ambitious vision for the future of manufacturing and technology. He describes a world where everything that moves, from cars to delivery drones to industrial equipment, will be autonomous and robotic. In this scenario, every company will operate two distinct but interconnected factories. The first will produce…
Cloaking Inequity 