27 Feb, 2021
Zoonoses and Climate Change: Is One Health Enough?
Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are animal infections that people can catch. Viruses, bacteria, parasites...
27 Feb, 2021
8 Nov, 2020
Biden’s jobs 1-10
In the next several weeks, President-elect Joe Biden will be preoccupied with creating a 100-day action agenda. It might be called “Operation Renewal.” Here are my top-10 choices, in no particular order...
6 Oct, 2020
Why I don’t wish Trump well
I consider myself a caring person who does not like to see suffering in others. That includes human suffering but also extends to other sentient beings and creatures that may or may not experience pain as we understand it.
3 Oct, 2020
Trump Unmasked
"I just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight,” Donald Trump said Thursday night. A day later he was airlifted to Walter Reed Hospital, down with (reportedly) mild symptoms of COVID-19—so “mild” that he’s now going to stay “several” days instead of “a few” as initially reported.
8 Jun, 2020
Why did the chicken cross the road?
“The coronavirus is now responsible for more than 110,375 American deaths. The White House response to this medical emergency has...
8 May, 2020
Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, America’s Billionaires Thrive and Prosper
“Although most Americans currently face hard times, with unemployment surging to the levels of the Great Depression and enormous numbers...
28 Apr, 2020
Compassion, empathy, and charity in the time of COVID-19
“My Ph.D. dissertation was on attitudes and perceptions towards forgiveness. I was motivated by a desire to increase the peace…”...
27 Apr, 2020
America’s Pact with the Devil
“You know you are in a dark place when you must cite Adolf Hitler to support your side of the...
25 Apr, 2020
Dear Sen. Romney: Call for Trump’s Removal, Now
“Dear Sen. Romney, As the lone Republican who made history voting to convict Donald Trump at his Senate impeachment trial…”...
2 Apr, 2020
The April Foolish Fake Leader
“It is said by those who study and teach leadership that one of the primary attributes of the best leaders...
27 Mar, 2020
Trump’s Cure and Our Disease
“The surgeon-general said so. The federal reserve chairman said so. Epidemiologists across the US said so. …” Mel Gurtov Published...
26 Mar, 2020
Trump, power, and Darwin
“Donald Trump vows to see “packed churches” on Easter Sunday. That would be April 12. If his mostly Christian base...
20 Mar, 2020
Creative empathy in a pandemic
“One thing about a pandemic: It’s inclusive. We cannot survive it, move beyond it, by protecting merely some people. We...
19 Mar, 2020
Take Heart! Humans are Amazing
“There are some things you’d can’t fight with the barrel of a gun. Pandemics are one of them. In times...
18 Mar, 2020
Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message
“U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the...