In his 2026 annual letter, Gates wrote that while he remains upbeat about the future, his optimism now comes with footnotes.

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Lou Gerstner IBM’s iconic former CEO passed away last weekend at 83 years of age. He will be remembered for generations for ...

Twenty years ago, India acted as a vishwaguru (world teacher) of sorts by launching the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The idea was not entirely new. India had a long history of using ...

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Photo Credit: Roman Samborskyi via Shutterstock.com. Facts show sexism never ended. Women may have some equal rights on the surface, but the culture of misogyny thrives. These sexism examples show ...

We all love a good story, especially when things go wrong, as long as it’s not happening to us. When it comes to technology, failures, even really big ones, can actually teach us more than huge ...

As a Ph.D. student, I dove into advocacy work, got involved with my union, and was elected as union representative of my graduate student union. Shortly after graduation, I was hired full-time by the ...