Education leaders nationwide are working twenty-four/seven to set up distance-learning opportunities for their students for the rest of the school year. That includes navigating multiple logistical and regulatory hurdles, training millions of educators overnight in how to use online tools, and figuring out how to get digital devices and packets of printed material into children’s hands, among dozens of other pressing tasks.

Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses businesses in Pennsylvania and California who are suing for the right to reopen and they have taken their case to the Supreme Court. Yoo also discusses the constitutional rights of people to protest in California.

Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas discusses the US pharmaceutical supply chain. Atlas notes generics are often made in India, with ingredients from China, and it is time to diversify the supply chain.

Colleges and universities are being badly hit by the Covid-19 virus. The spring and summer were pretty bad. If, as likely, it extends into the fall things will be much worse. The tragedy of all this, for large private colleges, is that our administrations apparently learned nothing from 2009, and set themselves up for exactly the same (if not worse) financial crisis.