America changed after Ed Sullivan presented the Beatles on his TV variety show. The Sullivan broadcast on February 9, 1964, represented a cultural change. Politics changed as some elected officials paid more attention to the views of younger voters. Old customs, like racial segregation, were ...
Advanced countries can expect a huge boost in productivity from artificial intelligence. In my view, it will set the stage for a new period of prosperity in the developed world — especially in the United States. Medicine will take off as never before. Life expectancy will rise by a third. ...
Russian leader Vladimir Putin, despite his public swaggering, has privately signaled support for a settlement in his war with Ukraine that would freeze current battle lines, according to former Russian officials close to the Kremlin and U.S. and international officials who have received ...
In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, few issues are as alarming and pervasive as the nursing shortage. Throughout medical facilities nationwide, a silent crisis is unfolding — one that threatens the foundation of our healthcare system. As the demand for quality care surges, our ...
Niall Ferguson, the Scottish historian, reminds us that world stock markets failed to anticipate World War I. They failed despite all the clues pointing to a world sleepwalking toward a calamity. They remained buoyant until the war’s outbreak, only to find the European and American stock ...
When President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act 54 years ago, it was a bipartisan movement — an effort to cope with air and water pollution affecting U.S. communities. Later that year, in 1970, the president created the Environmental Protection Agency and ...