Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about a new bill that would decriminalize drug possession and use in Massachusetts.

Professor Brook Baker tells Al Jazeera that inoculating the population of a single country will not protect them if it means that the virus continues to spread elsewhere unchecked: “You’re not protecting your citizens; you’re giving your citizens an illusion that you’re protecting them.”

The impeachment process is really a unicorn in the legal system, says Professor Daniel Medwed who joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about what legal actions could still be taken against the former president.

We're going to see the same cycle again, Professor Brook Baker '76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells VOA."The rich countries will run to the front of the line for the new variant vaccines. And countries will be left behind again as petri dishes for new variants to develop."

It is the height of naïveté to believe that words in a political speech can be understood in isolation from their context, writes Professor Michael Meltsner in a letter to the New York Times.

“To depend now on the private sector to increase vaccination rates would further underscore America’s tepid commitment to the basic principles of public health,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for The Atlantic.

Professor Brook Baker talks to Fast Company magazine about philanthropy’s function in public health: “A fundamental question is, Well, because you have the money, should you be able to control the architecture of global health?”

“Biden speaks to the aspiration of unity, and it’s nice to hope for that, but the pandemic has been understood by much of the country through deeply polarized and politicized lenses,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Guardian.

I think the issue is not so much whether the salary is over the line, Professor Daniel Medwed tells WGBH News. "It's whether there was fraudulent activity in securing that salary."