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Only ten months after the first case of COVID-19 was identified in the United States, pharmaceutical companies are announcing promising vaccine trial results.

Rob Falzon and Heather Landy suggest remote work does work, and suggests that the post-pandemic working environment should be a hybrid, where office walls are torn down to promote collaboration space and there’s flexibility to do individualized work at home.

With millions of Americans already infected with COVID-19, public health officials are working to ensure that a safe and effective vaccine is available for every American who wants one.

Harvard professor Micheal Sandel says climbing the ladder of success is getting harder in the United States, because the rungs on the ladder are growing further apart.

Current political fault lines are fracturing American society as people grow further apart from one another due to differing beliefs and opinions.

Claudia Rankine and Eric Liu discuss how to have the difficult conversations necessary to confront systemic racism and about building coalitions to effect change.

Civil rights experts and Stanford University professors Pamela Karlan and James Steyer discuss the history of civil rights movements in this country.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says liberal democracy has become about “me” instead of “us.”

As scientists work to develop a vaccine to battle the coronavirus pandemic, many people question whether the process has been rushed and if the results will be effective and safe.

President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Ambassador Robert O’Brien, joins former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley to discuss critical security and counterterrorism issues.