America needs a Covid Memorial Day. Why not Jan. 1, 2021?

The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to reflect on our personal choices and our society’s choices — and to promise to do better.

Healthcare workers at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital clap and cheer as they watch the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron fly over Chicago on May 12, 2020.Nam Y. Huh / AP file

Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University and the author of "Predictably Irrational" (and a few other books).