The year ahead promises new books from George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Ann Patchett, Ruth Ozeki, Jesmyn Ward and more ...

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

Can paying attention establish a new field? Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first person to definitively link trait inheritance to a specific chromosome and his white-eyed flies. Table 1 provides ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Skylar Clarine is a fact-checker and expert in personal finance ...

An examination of whether his recent moves have no precedent, are relatively common or somewhere in between. By Francesca ParisAlicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz In his first year back in the White House ...

When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...

Most X users say their recent experiences using the platform have been mostly positive or neutral. The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months ...

While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades since the question was first asked by the National Election Study, and it is ...

HSBC appoints ex-Citi executive Ida Liu to lead private bank HSBC said on Monday it appointed Ida Liu as chief executive officer of HSBC's private bank, effective January 5. Sustainabilitycategory· ...

Jane Meacham has 40 years' experience researching, writing, and editing financial content. She previously worked at Dow Jones & Co. in the U.S. and Asia, and is certified in Global Reporting ...

Managing your taxes can be one of the most complex aspects of estate planning and a new IRS rule change continues that trend. The rule, published at the end of March 2023, changes how the step-up in ...