Pioneering social and political justice champion Reverend Jesse Jackson died last week at the age of 84 after living for more than a decade with a progressive neurological condition. His passing ...

Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should or should not be happening.

In our years advising, founding, leading, and benefitting from nonprofit organizations, we have often seen them respond to these and other challenges by doubling down on rigorous, well-established ...

We are at a transitional moment in how disease control efforts are structured in middle-income countries (MICs). To meet new evolving opportunities and threats in the coming decade in MICs, we cannot ...

The internet has been going wild during the last few days because of the Stranger Things finale. The theory that has become known as Conformity Gate dives into implied clues indicating there might be ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

In the mid-1980s, object-oriented programming transformed software development by introducing a revolutionary approach to structuring and designing code. That mental shift—difficult as it was for many ...

Renaud Foucart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Even though they have already witnessed four years of a Donald Trump presidency, analysts have little certainty about how Trump plans to approach most countries in his second term. That’s exactly how ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Michael Tran / AFP / Getty. The day after Swift announced her book, David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the “Big Five” book publishers, said something at ...