In my July 22 letter, "Utah's new Agent Orange Memorial highlights the cost of freedom" published in The Salt Lake Tribune ), I provided details about a new memorial in Sunset, Utah honoring Vietnam War casualties. The new memorial was installed in Sunset Veterans Park and is located near the ...

Some noise has been made lately about the imminent redundancy of the job of physician, thanks to the ascendancy of artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology. The latest volley in the discussion comes via a JAMA essay, terrifyingly titled, "Will Autonomous AI Exceed AI-Aided Physicians ...

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. -- The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here. My Perry High School physics teacher, David Burrows, had loaded a handful of us into a ...

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the future. It can be difficult to consider what might happen next week, let alone years or decades down the road. Some things are fairly predictable, while others will be completely different than we envision. Just look at any of Hollywood’s ...

Author and activist Nikole Hannah-Jones published an emotional essay in the New York Times Magazine last week titled "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" In the piece, Hannah-Jones writes about the consequences of having deliberately selected a school for her daughter, ...

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs. They will no longer separate kids by ability. Why? To address "inequity." "This is so misguided," says education researcher Michael Petrilli in my new video. "These equity people say, 'Oh, we're against gifted education.' At the same ...