The Senate’s long-awaited version of Obamacare reform was published today (June 22), and, like the House bill that was passed in May, it will cut…

This post contains spoilers. Creator Noah Hawley and the cast of the FX drama Fargo haven’t been coy about the influence of Donald Trump’s presidency…

Disney took a risk handing its upcoming Han Solo movie to a pair of young filmmakers. Then, it fired them. Now, it’s making an about…

Boards have a penchant for bringing back ousted company founders: “boomerang bosses” is a well-worn phrase. So can we expect the same to happen to…

Much has been written about the rise of automation, and what it means for the future of employment. There’s mounting evidence that workers in wide…

Across Africa, electricity is a luxury afforded almost exclusively by the affluent. About 600 million poor or rural people—or two in three Africans—do not have…

Fifteen years ago, the US, the UK and Germany sent roughly the same share of kids into early childhood education or care. Today, the US…

Science has found some problems with becoming a dad in later life: A body of well-publicized research has linked increased paternal age to autism and…

Time with friends, colleagues, siblings, and children diminishes over the course of a lifetime. The older we get, the person we spend the most time…

Late-stage capitalism: such a downer. Consumerism is melting the ice caps, causing social carnage, and burying us under a mountain of sugar. Right? True enough.…

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has a busy weekend ahead, with two launches on opposite sides of the US scheduled for June 23 and June…

Three men deliver an endless assault of kicks as the victim lies motionless on the grass. With venom in their eyes, one of the perpetrators…

Federal agencies must use plain language. It’s the law. Yet the new 2017 US Government Website Clarity Index (pdf), put together by the content analysis…

China, the world’s biggest pork consumer, is struggling with too much meat. The country devours millions of tons of pork every year and expects to…

Eventually, Snapchat is going to run out of hand gestures. The ephemeral messaging service announced on its blog today that it’s launching a new section…

In mid-2015, several Nigerian women took to Twitter to highlight some of the patriarchal issues they face living in the country. With the hashtag #BeingFemaleInNigeria,…

The residents of Harlaa, a small town in eastern Ethiopia, have always suspected there was something special about their city. For years farmers have been…

You’ve seen it in cosmetics, Starbucks coffee cups, and even hospital scrubs, and now Pantone mania has infiltrated the children’s book section. A series of…

What are you buying when you pay $5 for a cup of organic, single-origin, fair-trade coffee? Or a locally produced, sustainably sourced linen tunic? Or…

The data is in: While India remains one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies, the currency ban in November 2016 did take some steam out…