Politics January 3, 2022 “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 ...

We did not evolve to live in the world in which we now live. This "evolutionary mismatch" explains many of the problems we experience, on both individual and societal levels.

We Americans have a huge problem that we do not want to face directly. We have lost faith in our united system of governance. Only 64% of eligible adults voted in the 2024 presidential election ...

Singapore. “We have no doubt that the Index will continue to evolve, providing an increasingly accurate measure of the sense of happiness among residents in the selected cities,” they wrote.

Maybe to Ensure We Can Literally ‘See’ the World upon Awakening A theory holds that dreams are a way for the visual cortex of the brain to “defend its turf” against being “taken over ...

Shock events are very hard to predict, But attempting to determine what they are can serve as a useful tool to prepare for the future.

Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.

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.

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?

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set its Doomsday Clock at a new time that indicates how close we are to making Earth uninhabitable for humanity.

It finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of observed global warming since 1990 and the resulting increases in climate extremes such as heat waves and droughts.

The global population is shifting in ways we don’t yet comprehend.