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In Flat Earth News, Guardian journalist Nick Davies shows how a vocation that once prided itself on uncovering the truth is no longer able to do so.

In Bangladesh, founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, has turned the banking system upside down. He tells Vision how this effects the poor of his country.

Fairy tales have clearly evolved over the centuries. And the changing tales say a lot about the changing times.

If Hans Christian Andersen were alive today, he might be surprised to see today’s most popular variation of his best-known story.

Fascination with poker is growing everywhere, and with it, some rather Machiavellian ideas.

In searching for solutions to the malaise of grinding poverty, some innovative approaches have been applied. Do they show the way to relieve the plight of the poor?

In the post-colonial backlash and in the face of increasing Muslim and other non-Western influence in Europe, a clash of cultures has emerged.

Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine suffers from overstatement, and at times it seems her probing enthusiasm stretches too far to fit examples to her thesis.

Although the potential for terrorism is not the only drawback of nuclear weapons, most experts agree that it poses the greatest world threat.

Many people view gambling, the legalized form in particular, as little more than harmless personal entertainment. Not everyone agrees, of course.

According to author Kevin Bales, slavery has three primary elements: control through violence, economic exploitation and the loss of free will.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Director, Julia Unwin, suggests that underlying today’s social problems are our growing affluence, avarice, alienation and anger.

As a veritable cascade of material wealth floods much of the globe, many wonder why they do not feel any happier or more content with life.

In his book Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore addresses whether Islamist extremism is bred rather than born. Is it produced by influence or by inheritance?

Ishmael Beah was 12 years old when Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war reached his village in 1993. Soon he found himself swept up into the army, a child soldier.

Middle East scholar David Hulme interviews MK Effie Eitam, whose new proposal highlights cooperation between Israel, Jordan and Egypt in Middle East conflict.

The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor coincidentally followed the release of a book by former child soldier Ishmael Beah.

Have we unwittingly and unwisely established a pattern of teaching youths the subject of sex while neglecting to teach them about relationships?

Vision examines the predictions of futurologists such as Ray Kurzweil who believe that advances in technology will allow humans to transcend their biology.

The year 2007 marks the 200^th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. Vision gives a brief history of the origins of the African slave trade.