“We Have It in Our Power to Begin the World Over Again” Progressives can win the fight for democracy in 2022. To do so, they would do well to renew their acquaintance with Thomas Paine’s ...

Note: This is the third blog in my series about truth and reality as they relate to problems we are experiencing as a society. "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." —R.E.M ...

We have lost faith in our united system of governance. Only 64% of eligible adults voted in the 2024 presidential election and far fewer vote in gubernatorial elections.

According to the laws of physics, everything we do follows inevitably from what happened before – and yet we’re convinced we can change the world. Can we?

Migration Is Remaking Our World — and We Don’t Yet Understand It. Jan. 31, 2025. ... many more of these brave souls to risk it all to make a new life if we are to have any hope of thriving in ...

When we sleep, we can smell, hear and feel, but visual information is absent—except during REM sleep. About 90 minutes after drifting off to sleep, you enter REM.

Because we’ve been burning fuel to power our economies for more than two hundred years, we have in place long and robust supply chains and deep technical expertise geared to a combustion economy.

Using time surveys and labour force surveys for more than 130 countries, their study provides a bird's-eye view of how we experience life, from the shape of our societies to our personal wellbeing.

The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. goals to ensure all people have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030.

Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it. ... We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.