Diplomacy is not always pretty and much of the work of diplomats is misrepresented and politicized but it is absolutely essential to keep the world at peace.

You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?

If you want to avoid conversation dead ends, remember to "turn" the conversation more than you "take it," says entrepreneur and author Andrew Horn.

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Do you know your rights? Hit refresh on your constitutional knowledge!

Evolution has created wild and weird animals. Get to know a few of them.

You might say members of the Intellectual Dark Web don't fit in. They might say, "exactly."

History may not repeat but it does rhyme.

"I think it's worth asking yourself, 'What risks are worth taking?' And once you've decided to take them, change who you are so you can win."

We all live by society's invisible rules but for some groups, these rules are tighter than for others, says psychologist Michele Gelfand.

People who have meditated for thousands of hours exhibit a remarkable difference in their brainwaves.

Economic necessity and growing isolation are making some middle-class families try coparenting, explains author Alissa Quart.

How does Alzheimer's disease work?

Sure, some expert-level knowledge is needed if you want to program artificial intelligence. But AI expert Ben Goertzel posits that you also need something that Guns N' Roses sang about: a lil' patience.

Canadian author, psychologist, and intellectual Jordan Peterson has an interesting way of overcoming your self-doubt and anxiety: run right into it. Or, rather, write right into it.

Is there an arc to history? The danger that we’re in right now in the U.S. is that we’re shifting from a politics of inevitability to a politics of eternity, which affects how we view history, believes historian Timothy Snyder.

Are modern colleges more interested in their bottom lines than the needs of students? Dan Rosensweig explains why the educational system is ready for disruption.

If you want to free yourself from the consumer culture and economic constraints, you have to achieve financial independence, says author Vicki Robin.

What can parents and friends of trans people do to help them beat the dismal mental health and suicide statistics? A lot, says Elijah Nealy.

Consumerism is sort of like junk food—you can consume all you want but it's still never going to be filling.