For centuries, Africa has suffered at the hands of opportunists seeking to enrich themselves at the continent’s expense, with far-reaching results.

The importance of our relationship with nature is coming into increasingly sharp focus, with a little help from a scaly mammal.

Which China we see will determine how we view the implications of its awakening.

The decade following the 1918–20 flu pandemic is remembered as a time of freedom—both for growth and for selfish excess. How are the post-COVID 2020s likely to shape up?

Pop psychologists freely use words such as introvert and extravert, but these terms can be misleading as well as harmful to personal development.

Vision reviews Noreena Hertz’s The Lonely Century. The author contends that the loneliness pandemic, too, must end, and outlines how we can make that happen.

Values play a key role in our understanding of history. A shift in those values may demand that we recontextualize the past.

Conspiracy theories have been with us for a long time. We’re now in the age of conspiracism: no need for a theory, just a social media platform.

The global scourge of discarded plastic—from macro- to microscopic—is finally starting to get the attention it deserves.

Though it’s the world’s dominant economic system, capitalism’s excesses are drawing increasing criticism.

Vision reviews Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy and John Keane’s The New Despotism. In the wake of the contentious 2020 US presidential election, their message is sobering.

What’s the best way to cope with a pandemic?

“Truth is fallen in the street,” an ancient prophet told his people. He could just as easily have been talking about today.

Blamed for all sorts of bad behavior, a long-maligned hormone is being reappraised.

Many of us probably nurse a dearly held grudge against someone—even though that grudge mostly just hurts us.

Let’s put away the airbrush and take a closer look at this person we call the “self”—and why we think it needs an airbrush in the first place.

Avoiding another Hiroshima begins with you and me.

Vision interviews Italian philosopher and academic Donatella Di Cesare, author of two recent books addressing conditions that threaten the global status quo.

We are by nature focused first on self. Until we change that, the world will never work for all of us.

How and why do people convince themselves to view others as less than human? Vision reviews David Livingstone Smith’s On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It.