To experience what patients have to do to opt-out of having their data shared, I went to doctor’s appointments in seven states. One clinic showed me how easily dark patterns force patients to share ...

Sometime in January this year, a senior Lagos-Ibadan journalist called my attention to a news story in which Hannatu Musawa, President Tinubu’s Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, ...

In conversation with Sahana Ghosh, author of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the India-Bangladesh ...

Two recent books explore the modern prominence of the global financial-inclusion agenda and argue about how it got there.

In 2024, an essay in The Atlantic by Rose Horowitch tapped into anxieties already circulating across elite higher education ...

“You two are like chalk and cheese!” my mother once declared to my sister and me when we were teenagers. Her happy ...

‘A story that needs to be told’: the Manacillos festival of Colombia – photo essay Ever Andrés Mercado won a World Press Photo award for his work on the Manacillos festival, which takes place among ...

Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla’s 1968 novel ‘Raag Darbari’ remains a touchstone to understand India’s governance dystopia, a new ...

On 6 May, the British establishment organ, The Economist published an essay, “Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia” by “a former senior official in the Russian government.” The anonymous author ...

On 6 May 2026, I wrote an essay in this column titled, ‘Monks, the Law and the Future of the Buddhist Monastic Order.’ While my point of departure was the arrest of 22 Buddhist monks on narcotics ...

It’s time to write your college application essay! Naturally you’re trying to decide which of your many life-changing, earth-shattering, mind-blowing experiences to write about in order to wow the ...

Using CPS microdata, 1976-2024, we estimate trend and cyclical components of unemployment and labor force participation for 44 age-gender-education groups. We fit a parsimonious state-space model in ...