Keeping food safe requires robust regulation. But when we starve the agencies that enforce safety laws, the results can be ...

When you go to a country that speaks the same language, understanding people and being understood may not be as easy as you ...

Many nations hold debt so large they have to borrow just to pay the interest. Can that cycle continue forever? And if it can't, what happens?

Can a healthier population harm a national economy in the long run if there are fewer young people to care for rising numbers ...

In Paris, people protest en masse for the right to live well. That means good schools, affordable housing and job opportunities. Who would argue with that? A sign reads “Liberty, equality, but only ...

Depending on what part of China's economy you look at, it seems either wealthy or weak. Should the rest of the world be ...

With the killing of six sex workers in Lima this year already, people are calling on the government to address the unequal treatment of transgender people. A group of transgender women protest outside ...

After massive floods in Valencia, fake news messages on the internet seemed targeted to intensify chaos and undermine trust in the authorities. A mud-covered car in a garage destroyed by floods in ...

Some 10,000 U.S. soldiers protect weather balloons and navigation and spy satellites from threats from above. It isn’t the only space force out there. Not many military forces have ranks and uniforms ...

Many argue that technology comes with high social and environmental costs. Others say innovation will save our planet. Can both be right? This article by student AyanfeOluwa Ayanlade was produced out ...

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Albania, Mother Teresa embodied many qualities that are held sacred in the Catholic Church — charity, humility, devotion — and she won the Nobel Peace Prize along with ...

The global toy industry has a plastics predicament: How to feed children’s appetite for new toys, keep prices low and not harm the Earth in the process. Plastic is omnipresent in our lives and few ...