Can we take inspiration from Jonathan Swift’s hyperbolic solution to socioeconomic deprivation in the 18th century in tackling the public health challenges of our own time? Martin McKee considers ...

No one attends the Doha Forum to hear balanced discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The annual conference—the ...

We ask auto and steel workers to compete with the world, yet we treat research funding as something that must be protected ...

Austen died in July 1817. Her 41 years spanned wild economic times. The first income tax arrived in 1799. Trading in slaves ...

The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do.

Christmas may well be the most treasured holiday and holy day for a significant portion of the planet’s population. The ...

It is hard not to notice the word “socialism” appearing steadily more often in steadily more places. Some appearances of the word aim to register ...

Being well-read transforms you into a pattern-recognizing, empathy-wielding intellectual force—but it also means suffering ...

COP30, the dark plots of "green capitalism," the colonization of carbon credits, the false technocratic solutions to the climate crisis, the fight for the ...

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...

Quantum computers have become the latest canvas for humanity’s oldest fantasy: escaping death. Startups, futurists, and ...

In a cabinet meeting convened on 7 October 2024 to mark the first anniversary of the Hamas attack, Netanyahu called for the ...