The Common Good hosted an evening with former White House Chief Strategist and former executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon. The conversation was moderated by John Avlon, Senior news correspondent for CNN.
On April 6, 2020, The Common Good hosted a special conference call with global health pioneer Dr. William Haseltine.
About Dr. William Haseltine:
Global health pioneer Dr. William Haseltine has been at the vanguard of discoveries in molecular biology and infectious disease for more than three decades. As a professor at Harvard Medical School, Haseltine was part of a team at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute that discovered the genomic sequence of HIV and helped develop tools that led to the successful treatment of the disease.
Dr. Haseltine, who recently returned from Wuhan, China where he chaired the 9th US-China Health Summit, has been vocal about our need for stricter measures for quarantining to curb the coronavirus outbreak. He joined us for a informative conference call briefing on the current medical response to the coronavirus crisis.
Sidney Blumenthal is an acclaimed journalist and author of many books including A Self-Made Man, Wrestling with His Angel and All the Powers of Earth, the first three volumes in his five-volume biography series The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln that the New York Times book review has called “Magisterial…A vividly written, wide-ranging and often surprising account of the president-to-be.” He is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post and Washington editor and writer for The New Yorker. His books include the bestselling The Clinton Wars, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, and The Permanent Campaign. He was the executive producer of the documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary of 2007.