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Today we face the shameless cynicism of a global order whose agents only imagine that they believe in their ideas of democracy, human rights and so on.
Mobile-phone companies across Africa are drawing battle lines to capture the rising middle-class consumer. But in Kenya, the war already is well under way.
Living at a higher altitude may be a risk factor for suicide, a recent study in the journal High Altitude Medicine & Biology has found. The study may help develop new treatments.
Millenniums of bare subsistence have given way to two centuries of luxury. Crass middle-class values are what made the modern world, and we ignore them at our peril.
Mainstream economists are preaching a decade of pain and historically high joblessness as if no alternative policy existed. Dean Baker thinks pessimism has run rampant.
Wikipedia turned 10 years old this week, and perhaps no entry better captures its chaotic ascendency than that of Jesus Christ.
In a major environmental decision, the Environmental Protection Agency has vetoed the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in the history of West Virginia.
The question is not whether culture matters, but whether it is an independent and self-sustaining factor in the production and reproduction of poverty.
Tourists have been evacuated and a state of emergency declared as one of North Africa's longest-standing regimes falls to popular protest with its President flees the capital.
"There are some ridiculously ugly blogs out there," says Joshua Brown. The modern money manager tells you how to spruce up your blog to get more readers.
What no one knew until now is that most cars would not work without the intervention of one of Einstein's most famous discoveries: the special theory of relativity.
A story that the astrological chart has shifted, changing many people's signs, has caused panic. But calm down! "Everything stays the same," says astrologist Susan Miller.
In response to a Chinese mother's strict parenting advice, one Western mom explains the virtues of letting kids quit, having sleepovers and finding their own way.
Freud’s ideas have become part of the fabric of everyday life—yet his methods are going out of favour. Robert Rowland Smith argues that the professionals have got it wrong.
Ron Paul, Congressman and anti-Federal Reserve crusader, has been appointed to chair a monetary policy subcommittee—now might be a good time to ask why we need the Fed.
It is no longer conflict between heavily armed superpowers, but rather spreading food shortages and rising food prices that threatens our global future.
Fifty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower delivered what has become the best-known presidential farewell address. But was it romanticized out of proportion to its merit?
Matt Warman examines the new 'Conversation Mode' for Google Translate for Android, and asks what's next for the search giant.
It is fanciful to imagine that guns will ever disappear from America...but that does not mean that more effective checks on the mentally unstable are impossible.
How do contemporary intellectuals corrupt their calling? "The intellectual life reduces itself to functional nihilism, warding off despair only by means of attacking the latest ideology."