How the Brexit Referendum was Trumped: Personality, Protest and Patriotism
By Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson
In this article, the authors contend the electioneering style of what they label “Trumpism” was distinctly manifested and a...
Why Everyday Decisions Feel So Stressful – And What to Do About It
By Dr. Yaniv Hanoch
Almost every morning I face the same dilemmas. Whether I should wake up my wife with a kiss or let her...
Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism
By William I. Robinson
World capitalism is experiencing the worst crisis in its 500 year history. Global capitalism is a qualitatively new stage in the...
Ten Reasons Why Majority Of Millennial Wants To Be Social Influencers
By Stella Lincoln
Social media influencers have become significantly famous today. Here you become a blogger/influencer and have unique content; there, you gain thousands of...
Durability before Democracy: Why Stability is Elusive in the Middle East
By Sean Yom
In this article Sean Yom discusses how the lack of permanence of Middle Eastern governments means that democracy is for the time...
Bigotry for Profit and “Fun:” Traversing the Wasteland of U.S. Election News
By Anthony DiMaggio
By now, many Americans are familiar with CBS President Les Moonves’ infamous comment that journalists’ sensationalistic fixation on the Donald Trump “circus”...
What Do We Know About Mass Shootings?
By Frederic Lemieux
In this article, the author examines key elements defining mass shootings and the evolution of definitions over time. The article also scrutinises...
Confucian Culture and the International Trend of Legalising Same-Sex Marriage
By Karen Lee
Steeped in centuries-old Confucian family order, China appears to be an unlikely place for same-sex marriage. A growing sense of activism, however,...
Religious Leaders Without Religion: How Humanist, Atheist and Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Chaplains Tend to Patients’ Needs
By Amy Lawton
In times of loss, change or other challenges, chaplains can listen, provide comfort and discuss spiritual needs. These spiritual caregivers can be...
Sex Work is Real Work: Global COVID-19 Recovery Needs to Include Sex Workers
By Deeplina Banerjee and Andrea Burke
During the pandemic, business shifted from in person to work-from-home, which quickly became the new normal. However, it left many...
Ukraine: War Has An Impact On People’s Health Beyond Bullets And Bombs
By Andrew Lee
According to the UN human rights office, 136 civilians have died in the war on Ukraine so far. But it acknowledges that the figure...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Delta variant Makes it Even More Important to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine, even if...
By Jennifer T. Grier
As someone who studies immune responses to respiratory infections, I’ve watched news of the emerging coronavirus variants with concern. I wondered whether...
Emphasizing Zakat and Waqf for Global Zero Hunger
By Randi Swandaru and Priyesta Rizkiningsih
The significant global temperature rise in the last decade has derailed the world zero hunger attainment. The increase in...
Four-day week: How Workplaces can Successfully Establish It
By Rita Fontinha and James Walker
Many workplaces have been experimenting with different types of flexible working arrangements for years now, but the pandemic has...
Covid 19 & the Forgotten Working Class
By Jack Rasmus
We hear a lot these days about providing benefits and income for the tens of millions of workers who are being laid off,...
Do We Need To Rethink Employment Law For The Gig Economy?
By Maximilian Yoshioka
Are people who work in the “gig economy” self-employed contractors, or employees of the organisation they “gig” for? In this article, the...
What Americans Can Learn from Other Cultures About the Language of Gratitude
By Jeremy David Engels and Elaine Hsieh
Families and friends traditionally gather to express gratitude during this time of year. Many also participate in acts...
Conspiracy Theory – What Is It?
By Peter Koenig
Being blamed for disseminating “conspiracy theories” and therefore being a conspiracy theorist, is an extraordinarily and smart tactic used by the true...
On Economic Inequality
By Harry G. Frankfurt
Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. In this article, Harry Frankfurt, one of the most...
2016 Elections: The Political Process as a Mechanism of Control
By Vince Montes
This article examines the US political process and the duopoly party system within a vast array of state strategies and elite manipulation....
Why People Trust Sharing Economy Strangers More Than Their Colleagues
By Mareike Möhlmann
Trust is a crucial element in any relationship, not least when financial transactions are taking place. The rise of sharing economy platforms...
Cosmopolitan Conceptions? Biopolitics and Emiratisation in Dubai’s IVF “Reprohub”
By Marcia C. Inhorn
Despite the political tumult in the Arab world, Dubai continues to draw medical tourists from around the globe, including infertile “reprotravellers”...
What the West Can Learn from the ASEAN Way
By Edgardo Angara
The rise of ASEAN shows how consensus-building, more than the rule of the majority, can help nations overcome religious and racial...
Corporate Philanthropy’s COVID-19 Test
By Kalyah Ford and Renée Karibi-Whyte
As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts hundreds of thousands of lives and the very fabric of society globally, corporate philanthropy is playing a...
Cheap and Clean: Attitudes to Energy in a USA Concerned with Climate Change
By Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky
In light of the recent agreement between the US and China to cut greenhouse gas emissions, US climate policy...
Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb
In this article the authors explore how modern capitalism mirrors the feudal system of centuries ago where today,...
Jeff Bezos is Looking to Defy Death – This is What We Know About...
By Daniel M. Davis
Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the...
Is a New Wave of Covid-Fascism Invading Europe?
By Peter Koenig
German Doctor, Co-founder of ACU - German Extra-Parliamentary Commission for (Covid) Investigation, Arrested - and Swiss Parliament extending the Swiss Covid Emergency...
Global Destruction, The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts
By Peter Koenig
Planned Destruction of World-wide Economy
What we have to realize is that the global, country-by-country destruction – happening simultaneously – is not a...
Pandemic Babies Behind on Communication at Age Two – But Other Developmental Areas Remain...
By Susan Byrne and Jonathan Hourihane
The world changed for all of us when we were suddenly plunged into a pandemic in 2020. COVID sent...
Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States
By Peter Koenig
People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on...
New Year’s Resolutions – if the Future is Preordained Can We Really Change?
By Matyáš Moravec
Many of us set ourselves New Year’s resolutions hoping to form better habits. Some of us might want to be more environmentally friendly....
Be a Fool! It’s What Crisis Leadership Really Needs
By David De Cremer
It’s hard to see a crisis coming. Crisis situations usually arrive at moments we do not expect it and as a...
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond
Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding. Below, Oliver Richmond discusses how statebuilding...
Coronavirus new variant – genomics researcher answers key questions
By Lucy van Dorp
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in...
Superforcasters: What Pandemic Planners Can Learn From The World’s Best Predictors
Experts got it catastrophically wrong, according to Dominic Cummings, UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser. Cummings has argued that the UK government’s official scientific...
Chile: The Capitalist Alternative to Venezuela in Latin America
By Rainer Zitelmann
Chile and Venezuela are the two counter-models in Latin America. Chile embodies the capitalist path, while Venezuela the socialist path. But Chile has...
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme...
By Susanne Jaspars
By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the...
Why Another Lockdown Might be Needed in February 2021
By Dr Peter Sivey and Dr James Gaughan
England recently emerged from a four-week lockdown into a series of tiered restrictions, and there is good...
Sri Lanka – Candidate for a New NATO Base?
By Peter Koenig
Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to...
Food and Fuel Excess: The Dark Side of America’s Exceptionalism
By Robert Paarlberg
By a wide margin, the United States leads the rich countries of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) both in...
Communities, Not Countries, are Best Equipped to Fix the World’s Economic Woes
By Peter Block
As anxieties about an economically unstable future grow globally, there is an alternative mindset much closer to home–literally just around the corner,...
The Evolutionary Reasons Humans Love Pets – And Nine Benefits of Having One
By Daniel Mills
We’ve all read stories about owners’ love for their pets, but you might be taken aback to hear how some people are...
The Legal Implications of Humanitarian Aid Blockades
By Eugène Bakama Bope
It’s been over three months since the start of the conflict between the Tigrayan regional government and the Ethiopian government, yet...
Harvesting The Biosphere
By Vaclav Smil
Humanity has been harvesting an increasing share of the Earth’s photosynthetic productivity. This has already resulted in a new world where the...
Mass Shootings in the US Have Risen Sharply in 2020 – Why?
By Craig Jackson
Despite the US response to the coronavirus pandemic using sporadic stay-at-home orders and lockdowns, as at November 26 2020 there have been...
China’s Product Safety Problem: How Should Marketing Managers Make Ethical Decisions in China?
By Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer
China has been known to be the world’s largest manufacturer, but its growth has reduced and thus is...
Deconstructing And Dismantling The Rape Culture In India
By Parul Verma
Since the post-colonial era, India has witnessed a history of sexual assault, molestation, rape and violence against its women. On the rise...
Race and Caste: Worlds Apart But Closer Than You Think
By Rajesh Sampath
Combining historical knowledge and awareness of the present situation in America and India, one can deduce that racial and caste-based discrimination are...
COVID-19: We Must Use Behavioral Science to Communicate Better during the Delicate Reopening Period
By Carlos Scartascini, Déborah Martínez, and Ana María Rojas
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus has surpassed 5 million worldwide. However,...
Growing up in lockdown: young people give their perspectives
By Professor Barry Percy-Smith
Throughout the pandemic, decisions made by adults have had a significant impact on all aspects of young people’s lives, yet...
Planning a Christmas Get-Together? 8 Tips to Avoid a Super-Spreader Event
By Thea van de Mortel
Not many more sleeps until Christmas, and all those long lunches and get-togethers with family and friends.
If you’re hosting a...
The Plight of Children in a Neoliberal World
By Peter Koenig
The NYT wrote yesterday, Christmas Day, that an 8-year old Guatemalan boy died in US Border Control custody. The circumstances are not...
Culture, Power and Applied Anthropology in a Corporate Setting
By Amitai Touval
Businesses rely on experts to intervene in situations in which organisational culture intersects with problems of power and control. While anthropologists are...
The Despair of American Youths under an Overly ‘Critical Society’
By Chan Kung
A recent tragic incident in the United States has stunned the world. This incident, is not merely “domestic terrorism”, but its root...
Usury in the 21st Century
By Richard Westra
Neoliberal deregulation commencing in the closing decades of the 20th century put into play a global financial system which operates as a...
Zombie Politics
By Alexander Cohen and Chase Pielak
Zombies mirror deep seated cultural fears of lack of control, lawlessness, and powerlessness. In the modern world, they are a...
How to Defeat Western Neo-Colonialism
By Andre Vltchek
The West managed to build its wealth, including the social nets, on plunder, deception, slavery and countless holocausts on all continents of...
‘The Anniversary Effect’: What one full year in lockdown has done to our psyche
In every corner of the world, you are confronted with various media recapping the past year and dissecting exactly how the pandemic has radically...
Social Care: How Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children Face Discrimination Across Europe and the...
By Joanna Kostka
Throughout Europe – from Italy to Hungary – Romani children are overrepresented in institutional care. This is particularly acute in eastern Europe. As many...
COVID Vaccines will be Here Soon – in the Meantime, Here’s How to Stay...
By Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Ana Paula Nacif
With several COVID vaccines closing in on regulatory approval, we can start to imagine a future after...
As Afghanistan falls, what does it mean for the Middle East?
By Tony Walker
In the 19th century, the phrase “The Great Game” was used to describe competition for power and influence in Afghanistan, and neighbouring...
Collaborative Water Management Can Be a Building Block for Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians
By Clive Lipchin and Richard Friend
Water is a central element of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel controls several water...
COVID Vaccines Rollout are Starting to Arrive – Here’s How Everyone will Get Them
By Sarah Schiffling and Dr Liz Breen
The first batch of COVID vaccine has arrived in the UK, and the NHS has embarked on the largest...
Why France, Germany and the UK Relate to Their Muslim Communities So Differently
By Jeanne Prades
The way we perceive and talk about Islam varies greatly from one European country to the next. While this may be easy...
Global R&D Effort For Creative Technology Must Be Stepped Up Post-Covid
By Andrew Thompson and Lord Neil Mendoza
The pandemic has highlighted creative industries’ innovative capacity and the extent to which we rely on culture not...
Cyber Racism and What Can Be Learnt from Australia
By Andrew Jakubowicz
Cyber racism has become a widely recognised scourge of the Internet, interacting with violent radicalisation and cyber bullying to make the worldwide...
Venezuela – A Tribute for Her Endless Pursuit of Democracy
By Peter Koenig
Venezuela is again the shining light of Democracy – pushing ahead with the 6 December 2020 National Assembly (NA) elections – despite...
A Time for European Diplomacy to Come of Age: Responding to the Refugee Crisis
By Susi Dennison
“People will always want to migrate for a better life: this is a constant reality.” But the harrowing images on the news...
Are Rich People More Intelligent? Here’s What the Science Says
By Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet
From White Lotus to Succession, there’s high demand for television dramas about the super rich. The characters on these shows are typically...
How Sport Became the New Religion – a 200-Year Story of Society’s ‘Great Conversion’
By Hugh MacLeod
“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the...
Tokyo 2020 in the Face of Hardship
By Robert Hunziker
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics reflects a sense of optimism to the world community and has become a centerpiece of the Abe administration’s...
How Digital Innovation Is Changing Life Sciences and the Way We Treat Dementia
By Jessica Wong
Every year, dementia kills more Americans1 than prostate cancer and breast cancer combined. Advances in life sciences are moving researchers, patients, and...
Work Addiction Can Be Harmful to Mental Health
By Professor Teena Clouston
As a culture, we’ve come to value growth and productivity, making paid work not only a necessity, but a central concern in peoples’ lives....
How to Express Yourself if you Want Others to Cooperate with You – New...
By Magda Osman, Agata Ludwiczak, Devyani Sharma and Zoe Adams
Collective action is often the key to creating dramatic social or environmental changes, be it...
Lessons from Around the World on Fighting COVID’s Second Wave
By Jimmy Whitworth
As the northern hemisphere moves into winter, coronavirus rates are rising in parts of Europe and the USA. Experts are warning of...
How the pandemic may damage children’s social intelligence
By Professor Barbara J Sahakian, Dr Christelle Langley, Professor Fei Li and Jianfeng Feng
Do you remember the excitement and anticipation of your first...
Myanmar: memes and mantras of a new generation of democracy protesters
By Richard Dolan
What do the internet memes Doge and Cheems, the Hollywood film franchise The Hunger Games, and a sachet of instant tea have in common? They...
Russia/Ukraine grain export deal promises major benefits for poor countries. If it holds
By Wandile Sihlobo
If Russia keeps to the deal it has signed with Ukraine allowing for the resumption of grain exports, much needed relief will be...
Duped, Guilty Pleasure, Irony, and Camp: Consuming Fake News
By Roscoe Scarborough
Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with self-proclaimed “bad TV” watchers about their media consumption, this research examines how people consume fake news....
United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era of Fake...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...
Emoji: New Language or Trend?
By Marcel Danesi
As societies change and grow, language too, evolves. In this article, the author analyses the rise of the emoji as a means...
More Innovation Can Creatively Destroy Firearm Violence
By Dan Prud'homme
We need more investment in two types of technologies that could dramatically reduce gun violence in America: better non-lethal arms and a...
The Curse of Aleppo and Understanding the Syrian Civil War
By Simon Mabon
Five years have passed since the deadliest civil war of the 21st century began. Dr. Simon Mabon discusses what caused the uprising...
Michigan State Murders: What We Know About Campus Shootings and the Gunmen Who Carry...
By David Riedman and James Densley
A gunman opened fire at Michigan State University on Feb. 13, 2023, killing three people and injuring five others before taking...
Corporate Scandals – Cauldrons of Spilt Trust
By Douglas Bryson & Glyn Atwal
Trust is a big word. In this article, the authors elaborate on the elements and issues around corporate scandals,...
How Organisational Culture Affects Business Performance in Nigeria
By Anthony Abiodun Eniola, PhD
The small and medium scale enterprise (SME) sector plays a critical economic role in both developed and developing countries. It...
Hindu Nationalism and the Consolidation of Hate Politics in India
By Kalim Siddiqui
When we look back, since the demolition of the Babri Masjid a quarter of century ago, it seems a well-planned and well-thought...
eColonialism Theory: How Trends are Changing the World
By Thomas L. McPhail
In this information age, new trends and ways of doing things have changed dramatically. From work, to school, to entertainment and...
WHY DO I LIVE HERE?: On Muslim youth growing up on the front lines...
By Reva Jaffe Walter
Denmark has some of the most restrictive immigration and refugee policies in Europe. Muslim youth are at the front lines of...
The Challenges and Importance of Institutions Building in the Developing Countries
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
There has been on-going debate about the utility of the ‘free market’ system versus ‘government intervention’ in promoting development policies and...
Religion, race and nationality – what are our prejudices and how can we overcome...
By Dr Julian Hargreaves
What do you think of your neighbours? And what do they think of you? Concerns around increasing division and polarisation...
The Frighteningly High Human and Financial Costs of War
By Rami G Khouri
The ravages and costs of war can persist for generations after the fighting and bombing stop.
We have always known that war...
Children – Civilization’s Future, Victims of Western Brutality
By Peter Koenig
The United Nations Universal Children's Day – 20 November – has come and gone – and nothing has changed. No action that...
Adapting In An Ever-Changing Business World: When Culture Meets Biology To Survive
By David De Cremer
The world today is changing all the time. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were reminded that events and...
Have You Ever Met a Psychopath? The Anatomy of the Corporate Psychopath
By Adrian Furnham
When we think of psychopaths, we think of blood-thirsty crazed killers who spend their lives in chains at maximum security prisons after...
Say Hello to Japan’s New Generation Workers
By Alecsandra Tubiera
The new generation – or mostly known as the millennial generation – is the current age of workers in Japan, innovating ideas...
Quick and Simple Ways to Improve Yourself and Your Life.
When you're busy with your job, family, bills, and other responsibilities, it's tempting to put self-improvement and personal growth on the back burner. The...
The Crisis of Trust in Democracy and Globalisation
By Graham Vanbergen
Crimes of the rich and powerful elite have led to a global crisis of trust. In this article, the author elaborates on...