GREG SIMON was named executive director of the national moonshot cancer initiative by Vice President Joe Biden. Previously, he helped start the charity FasterCures in 2003. In 2009, he became senior vice president for patient engagement at Pfizer. Most recently, he was chief executive of Poliwogg, a financial services company. Simon was diagnosed with leukemia...
The Trump administration did exactly what it said it would do to disorient anyone involved in making policy or touched by it. The president and his crew have “flooded the zone”—the term and the image are theirs, as is the strategy of dropping a flurry of executive orders and memoranda that shake the foundations of the American system of government, raising questions of legality and constitutionality, and, above all, making it a challenge for anyone to see the entire picture and think strategically.
