Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.

If we took the values and principles of cooperation to the next level, we could effectively tackle many crises.

Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.

Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," remain controversial to this day.

Sexual attitudes are more man-like than ever. Here’s what that means for women.

Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.

About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.

Why marriage is thriving — and dying — in different American classes.

The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.

Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.

How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.

If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.

Researchers found that the average penis increased in size from 4.8 inches in 1992 to 6 inches in 2021. But in some regions, they shrank.

Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.

Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.

It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.

If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.

“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.

These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.

Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.

For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.

You want your baby's name to be unique, but so does everyone else.

What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.

Satanic cultists don't even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.

“Conflict is useful. The question is how do you deal with conflict effectively.”

When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.

Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.

We asked 11 experts about the future of progress for humanity.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.