If all the rational arguments argue against American gun culture, then the irrational (sometimes creepy) ones must be to blame for our fatal firearms attraction.

Scalia was sitting right next to Clarence Thomas, the sole African-American justice, when he made these startling comments.

Germans are cold and hard. Filipinos are warm and soft. Or is that oversimplifying it?

Mindfulness meditation can be hugely beneficial in our personal and professional lives, but people often leave the practice because their expectations are set unreasonably high.

Giving the streets back to folks for whom they were originally designed: pedestrians.

Making Internet available where there once was none.

Dark things come in small packages, but the reason why is what’s truly astounding. “A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.” […]

Building encryption into everyday services is more than just good business.

Renewable energy is just good business.

Sigmund Freud said the two great protections we all had against inevitable human suffering were love and work. Will we lose work in the second machine age?

Robots and computers will not just eliminate our jobs; they will also dissolve important aspects of the family and our pair-bonded partnerships.

A beautiful Scandinavian country might be paying its residents more than $800 a month, with no strings attached.

Beijing just had a red alert for air quality for the first time. But what else is it up to?

We will need a good dose of healthy stoicism if we are to survive in the world after work. 

The politics of immigration continue to "mobilize racist, xenophobic, and nativist tropes," says author Junot Diaz, who credits his own artistic triumphs to being an immigrant himself.

When it comes to leaders of organizations, they not only need to have some blend of intelligences themselves, but it’s very, very important for them to realize that not everybody who they work with is going to think the same way.

A big part of our current mess has to do with how little about religion we actually know.

About 1.15 million people in the U.S. have died from gun violence since John Lennon's death 35 years ago. What can his life and music tell us about how to respond to violence, intolerance, and hate? 

The former Minnesota governor is known for frank assessments. Here he discusses arriving at a pretty unique way of preventing further violent tragedies on American soil.

I assume France will be cutting out the "liberté" part of its "liberté, égalité, fraternité" motto?