United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.
There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.
President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.
The United States and China have both beefed up their naval presence in Southeast Asia, leading to fears of a military confrontation. This is just one example of China flexing its military muscle in recent months, and it coincides with a slowdown in the nation's economy.
The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.
I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.
I think one can see the [Donald] Trump program as if it were that element of the bailout of 2009 writ very large, and now extended out towards both fossil fuels, and, on the other hand, the infrastructure program, which is such a key element of the spending side of the Trump program.
Vaclav Havel was a really popular leader. He couldn't believe that he was really there. I mean, he still dressed in black T-shirts and jeans and was very kind of '60s. And he began to realize the seriousness of it. And he knew how to strategize. And he had a very keen political sense, but he didn't want to be like the old communist leaders.
All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.
From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.
The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.
The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.
A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.
CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.
A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.
I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.
I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.
In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.
Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.
Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.
He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.
That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.
What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.
