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Warspeak has relentlessly crept into most aspects of American life and public discourse.

How do you overcome the tension between autonomy and solidarity?

The British capital’s love affair with buckets and nuggets, explained

Compassion is one of several news values that determine if a story is published.

A review of the global “wall” that divides rich from poor.

The statistics for American adults aren’t that much better.

Without a country to belong to, many of these people lack some of the most fundamental rights.

…and hopes for big benefits.

There’s more than one kind of wall that we can build. Building the right kind of wall might even be good for the U.S.

Here’s why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.

Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what’s missing.

Is that what Jesus would have responded to the poll from Pew Research Center?

Johann Hari knows that mental health is really a social issue.

Many governments do not report, or misreport, the numbers of refugees who enter their country.

There are some undeniable parallels between Jewish history and the Big Blue Boy Scout.

For all the women in the world who never got the apology they needed, and all the men who haven’t found the words, and above all for herself, Eve Ensler (THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES) wrote THE APOLOGY. In this searing, unflinching, often surprisingly funny conversation we talk about trauma, compassion, and what it means to apologize for real.

And you thought red-light cameras were bad…

A review of Latin America’s growing crisis.

Austro-Japanese aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi later concentrated on plans for Pan-Europe.

Yet interpersonal trust is at its lowest point in 50 years.

Could Jerome Segal lead the country toward the utopia of our American dreams?

If we make the right choices, there’s hope for the future.

Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s “singleton hypothesis” predicts the future of human societies.

We keep hearing that Scandinavia has perfected socialism, but is that true?

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shares the books that shaped his life.

Are you a victim of the social media bubble?

We should care about constitutional rights for all, says lawyer and religious freedom scholar Asma T. Uddin. If they are denied for some, history demonstrates how they may be at risk for us all.

The strike is poised to happen on Amazon’s upcoming “Prime Day.”

A new report shows how legalizing marijuana nationally would likely be much more effective at curbing drug smuggling than building a border wall.

The city council voted in favor of the ban by a margin of 8 to 1.