According to the American Hospital Association (AHA), since January 2005, 195 rural hospitals have closed or converted in the United States, including 19 rural hospital closures in 2020 alone – representing the highest annual closure rate in the past decade. For millions of Americans in rural communities, accessing healthcare has long meant an impossible choice; endure hours of travel for routine care, or postpone treatment until a manageable condition becomes a crisis. This

Originally published on Project Syndicate on May 15, 2026. Judging by most of the media coverage of the global AI "race," the United States and China are the two dominant players, and every other country and organization is at risk of being left behind. The reality is far more complex—and not nearly as bleak. WASHINGTON, DC—In The Three-Arched Bridge, the novelist Ismail Kadare tells the story of a bridge being built in medieval Arbëria (modern-day Albania, Kadare’s homeland)

India hosted one of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence summits in February. The India AI Impact Summit -2026 brought together heads of state, technology leaders, researchers, and policymakers in New Delhi to declare a “shared roadmap for global AI governance and collaboration”. With participation from over 110 countries, and hundreds of sessions, the summit was designed to signal something more than scale. It was meant to mark India’s role not just as a user of AI,

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant innovation. It is quietly reshaping the labor market. While public fears of mass job loss are rising, the evidence suggests something more complex: AI is transforming jobs more than replacing them. AI is a predictive‑modelling computing system which relies on massive data amounts to mimic human reasoning in performing tasks. Advanced computing methods such as machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (