I've been telecommuting for decades, so for me sheltering in place isn't remotely the burden it is for a lot of Americans.

Everywhere you look — from newspaper headlines, to TV alerts, to those too-long White House briefings, to people wearing masks in public places, there is hardly any news that isn't negative.

There will be three stages to the coronavirus era.

Once again humanity is humbled, this time not by fire, earthquake or tornado.

COVID-19 has, to put it mildly, altered our way of life.

A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as the postwar global leader.

Home alone, ailing, taking no chances, self-isolating, I wander with my cup of soup to the front window.

It is not cognitive dissonance - the impossibility of holding two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously - to favor the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump while at the same time worrying about what the increasing national debt (nearing $24 trillion and counting) will do to the country.

Look, I know it's hard to do when the coronavirus is coming after us, but stand up and cheer.

"I think you and any viewer knows exactly where I'm going with this," MSNBC host Ari Melber said halfway into a stemwinder of a question for Democratic Sen. Cory Booker.

The social and political response to major catastrophes often proceeds in stages.

Did you notice how quickly Washington's $1 trillion coronavirus spending package swelled to $1.6 trillion, and then $2 trillion?

If anything good can come from the coronavirus pandemic, it is the revelation of America's overreliance on China, especially when it comes to drugs.

When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced his statewide stay-at-home order Friday to help fight the coronavirus, I faced a conflict of interest:

If there's one thing worth knowing about China - in terms of geopolitics and American national security at least - it's that its rulers are almost as afraid of the people as the people are afraid of them.

For most of early 2019, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden - the declared custodian of liberalism who would continue the Obama glory years - seemed unstoppable.

Some years ago, I wrote a book titled "The Things That Matter Most." It was a critique of the continuing impact the '60s generation has had on the country.

My advice for Joe Biden: Don't do that again.

When social distancing was first suggested as a means of reducing the spread of the new coronavirus, several of my friends joked how great it is to have public health experts affirm their antisocial tendencies.

Amidst all of the well-placed urgency and occasionally misplaced panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have decided there's a pressing need to debate whether terms such as "Wuhan virus" or "Chinese coronavirus" are racist.

Warmer weather usually means more people getting out and driving - to stores, restaurants, baseball games or sometimes, just to drive.

Sexism did it. A widespread sense of female inferiority pushed Elizabeth Warren from contention in the Democratic primary for president, some insist. I'd like to suggest a more powerful force was her chicanery, as in refusing on 17 public occasions to say whether she was going to hike taxes on the middle class.

Even with all the media attention on coronavirus, we're missing the really big story: