Russia’s struggle for national identity sheds light on our own need to know who we are and what’s expected of us.

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.