What will today's Ivy League alums, caught in what Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits dubs "The Meritocracy Trap," decide to ...

In 1825, a group of disillusioned army officers launched a coup in the Russian capital, St.Petersburg. Their goal was to ...

This is the story of the Decembrist revolt of 1825, in which a group of army officers tried to change the course of Russian ...

The Tennessee Committee for the Bill of Rights is announcing its 23rd Bill of Rights Banquet. This dinner is held at the Trinity Chapel, 240 First Avenue, in ...

AI might automate a third of jobs in the next six years. True or not, concerns over mass automation and unemployment have ...

Recently, the names of the three Nobel prize winners in economics were announced. Fifty years ago, one of the best Nobel prize decisions went to Friedrich Hayek. Hayek along with Milton Friedman ...

How a piece of Polish messianism went on to inspire the central work of modern Ukrainian national consciousness. And how the ...

Humankind has outlived multiple pandemics in the course of world history. The kingdoms and states of Central and Western Europe abolished the insti ...

LHASA: The trials and sentences of the people jailed for their involvement in the March 14 riot last year in Lhasa, Tibet were fair and in line with Chinese law, judges and lawyers said on Thursday.

Foreign tourists will be allowed to get into Tibet as of April 5, a local tourism official said in Lhasa on Sunday. China Publishes Report on Tibet Development ...

In the 2013 book Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson examined different economic outcomes during the European ...

There is discrimination in New York, the racial inequality of apartheid in South Africa, and serfdom in the mountains of Peru ...