Should Governments Care About Happiness?
Recent reports expose cracks in Bhutan's strategy of promoting contentment, not income. More »
An App to Help Women Avoid Street Harassment
Olga Khazan is The Atlantic's global editor.
Recent reports expose cracks in Bhutan's strategy of promoting contentment, not income. More »
The Russian president's language choice indicates his worry about Islamist extremists and the threats they pose to Russia. More »
Disagreement between the U.S. and Russia, the difficulty of cleaning up chemical weapons in a war zone, and other reasons Damascus's latest promise might not be fulfilled. More »
The administration is trying to sell intervention by invoking the successful 1999 NATO air raid, but the two conflicts are totally dissimilar. More »
Five things that influence public and congressional opinion on entering a foreign conflict More »
A hipster-esque solution to a tough problem in India proves surprisingly effective. More »
Glenn Greenwald's partner was detained, and the newspaper's employees were made to destroy hardware containing the Snowden files. That's partly because the U.K. has some of the most sweeping anti-terrorism and anti-disclosure statutes around. More »
The U.S. gives the country's generals $1.3 billion a year. But canceling that might not be as effective as we'd like. More »
Recent laws and polls reveal an uptick in anti-gay sentiment, but paradoxically, Russians like their music acts as campy and flamboyant as possible. More »
No, they don't blow it on booze or drugs -- at least not in developing countries. More »
Yesterday was one of the deadliest single-day instances of police-on-protester violence since Tiananmen Square. More »
Today's massacre continues a disturbing trend in the country since the fall of Mubarak. More »
The Netherlands mandates a middling amount of time off -- but its workers are some of the most satisfied in the world. Here's why. More »
New evidence suggests Neanderthals made sophisticated leather-working tools like ones we use today. It might mean that they were smarter than we thought. More »
New food technologies may be incredible, but they won't necessarily save starving children. Here's what will. More »
Two of the remaining American journalists in the country say the mood seems relatively normal, although frustration over U.S. aircraft is growing. More »
A fascinating new glimpse at how gender-based jobless rates change household dynamics More »
Whataboutistm: a rhetorical defense that alleges hypocrisy from the accuser. And it's going to make it a lot harder to criticize Moscow on human rights. More »
A new meta-analysis finds that extreme changes in temperature increase the likelihood of inter-group conflict. More »
