Author: The Conversation

A new study finds a relatively easy way to counteract it

Finns have good schools, public transport, and the difference between the highest- and lowest-paid is quite small. These are factors in high levels of happiness

Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama

Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, showing he, like all other presidents, is not an imperial king

Two bank failures in the US, and the forced takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS in Switzerland, have triggered the worst turmoil in the banking sector since the

Today’s immigrants — who mostly come from the Global South — face a system of ever more complex chutes and ladders when it comes to their status in

The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions

The WHO first described Covid as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Where are we at, three years later?

Health struggles are part of the human condition, but politicians often resist revealing full medical records

The treatment of Ukrainian refugees exposes a humanitarian double standard that has channelled vital funding away from equally deserving crises.

Perhaps the combination of religious rhetoric and secular laws is a winning electoral strategy

  By Alice Welsh

Here are the trends on the cusp of transforming the online world

How gossipy memoirs feed national fascination with privileged elites

  Populism has been unleashed. We’re beyond the stop-gap measures of small-step reform or pragmatic centrist liberalism. What’s next? We’re about to find out.