The Economist When William Beveridge invented the welfare state in Britain in the 1940s, he sought to slay the “five giants”: ...

Britain’s history is intertwined with empire and colonialism. The UK was forged as a nation-state alongside, and partly to ...

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A battery test shows iPhone 17 gains are real but modest, with eSIM-only models likely lasting longer thanks to larger ...

Using OECD Better Life and UN HDI data, here are seven countries often rated higher than the U.S. for overall well-being—Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, and New ...

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to ...

Men’s Health writer Jamie Carson sheds his layers to find out if baring all can improve mental health and body positivity ...

Jennifer Lynn McCoy receives funding from the Carnegie Corporation for an Andrew Carnegie fellowship on depolarization as well as the Institute for Humane Studies.. She is Regent's Professor of ...

Why we fear irrelevance more than unemployment, and why the "perfect" empathy of a machine might be the most dangerous thing of all.

Second – and this could be a subset of the first one, but warrants its own section – anyone who tells you their pronouns. Be they in an email signature or something that comes out of their mouths, do ...

MILAN — Alysa Liu is back at the Olympics on her own terms, and she’s thriving on the U.S. team. Four years ago, Liu went to the COVID-hit Beijing Olympics as a 16-year-old who despised how skating ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Vernon, FSA, helps retirees make their money last for life. Planning for your happiness and fulfillment in retirement is ...