When Bill Gates speaks, people listen. When his wife, Melinda, adds her voice, we listen even more intently. In reviewing the new book, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Melinda says, “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the silent miracle of human progress.’ It explains why

I have been dealing with depression for 70 years now. My book, describing my own healing journey, begins with these words “I was five years old when my uncle drove me to the mental hospital.” He was taking me to see my father who had been committed to Camarillo State Mental hospital after taking an