Americas
At least 5 million people are expected to fly across North America for the 2026 FIFA World Cup this summer, triggering a surge in short-haul and international air travel across 16 host cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.With fans planning multi-city itineraries to follow their teams, carriers across…
America has been experiencing a productivity boom for the past five years, and economists are debating what’s driving it. Loading audio narration… Stanford University economics professor and leading remote-work researcher Nicholas Bloom has one theory: remote work is playing a major role.In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Bloom shared a…
In 2023, Allison Hale realized her mother could no longer live on her own. Though she was relatively young at 67, her recent retirement had exacerbated a longtime struggle with drinking. She declined quickly, culminating in a diagnosis of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a dementia-like condition caused by alcohol-induced brain damage. Suddenly,…
