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Michael Avidan, MD, the Dr. Seymour and Rose T. Brown Professor and head of the Department of Anesthesiology

Michael Avidan, MD, the Dr. Seymour and Rose T. Brown Professor and head of the Department of Anesthesiology

Patrick Rishe, Director, Sports Business Program & Professor of Practice in Sports Business

Patrick Rishe, director, Sports Business Program

David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor, Brown School

James V. Wertsch, David R. Francis distinguished professor

If we truly wish to support working families — during this pandemic and beyond — we must recognize that limited access to quality child care is one of the greatest obstacles, write Gary Parker and Atia Thurman.

It is time to bring this kind of real-time outcome data to America’s addiction crisis and make it available to the public. It’s the only way of knowing if what we’re doing to address the problem is making a difference. Without it, we’re relying on little more than prolonged intuition, writes David Patterson Silver Wolf.

The immediate point is that the American lawsuits over Covid-19 are being filed in a context already fraught by the pandemic, and they amount to needless provocation. It is a time when the world needs cooperation, not unnecessary friction, writes James Wertsch.

This year we have learned again to love the classroom—that lowly, unsung structure of walls and desks set aside for the purpose of learning. For learning has always been more than a matter of mental activity. The space where our bodies sit shapes the processes and possibilities taking place in our minds, write Peter Boumgarden and Abram Van Engen.