On June 6th, US Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressed the UN Security Council meeting on Maintenance of International Peace and...
America’s neighbors to the north are mounting an experiment. Last week, Canada announced its “first feminist international-assistance policy,” following comprehensive...
The World Happiness Report confirms what we already know - that people living in societies where people take care of one another are better off than people in societies who are more focused on the individual than the community.
The White House yesterday suggested that it is contemplating a massive increase in the defense budget, to be offset by...
Famine kills children first. Famine does not simply mean “lack of food.” Rather it is a threshold against which indicators...
Fine foie gras is about to become much more expensive. The French Ministry of Agriculture has made the drastic decision...
(World Government Summit, Dubai) — The World Government Summit is a futuristic event. Some presentations border on science fiction; like...
(World Government Summit, Dubai) — The question of whether a government should be responsible for the happiness of its people...
These are the trends, events, elections and happenings that will drive the global conversation in 2017. Welcome to our annual...









