Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

About four-in-ten U.S. adults (42%) say the Republican Party represents the interests of people like them very or somewhat well. A similar share (40%) say this about the Democratic Party. But ...

The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why. On 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland, a fifth round of negotiations ...

October 8 - With COP30 fast approaching in Brazil, governments and businesses must recognise that food systems belong at the top of the agenda. Production, processing, transport and waste across the ...

This is the first installment of a new column by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. It appears in our current print issue; subscribe to get a copy. In 1962, eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell received a series of ...

On 16 October 2029, I will – hopefully – become a member of the world’s fastest-growing demographic. By then, 1.4 billion people, a sixth of the world’s population, will be aged 60 or over. Assuming I ...

In June of this year in America, I offered the concept of cosmopolitanism as an important corrective to the nationalistic tendencies that are so prevalent in today’s political and social discourse.

Before cities, smartphones, or even written language, humans had one major survival tactic: each other. We lived in small, tight-knit groups where survival meant working together. And to do that, we ...

Effective communication is the foundation of high-performing organizations, particularly in an era of remote work and an expanding array of digital tools like Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, and internal ...

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms how we work, learn, and organize institutions, questions emerge about whether our current social structures can adopt AI and harness its full ...

In William Galston’s “Trump Can’t Ignore Our Housing Crisis” (Politics & Ideas, July 16), he points out the affordability of a median family home, but he fails to note that number is greatly ...

Republicans in Congress are hashing out a new tax cut and spending bill that's projected to add trillions to the national debt. We will get to some of those specifics in just a moment. But, first, let ...