More scientists are hoping to help people transform their minds. Vision reviews three books offering do-it-yourself instructions for building the best brain ever.

Many present-day Russians have managed to discount his horrific impact on history to rehabilitate Stalin—some even suggesting his elevation to sainthood. Why?

In 1896 Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), the basis for his reputation as the father of political Zionism.

A number of notable books addressing pollution and the prognosis for our planet were published last year. Vision looks at three of them.

Will biotechnology change our views on sex and procreation?

International agencies calculate that nearly a billion people go hungry every day. What will it take to solve the perennial problem of inadequate food and fresh water in vast regions of the world?

Insight Video: The Trinity dogma is described as “the central doctrine of the Christian religion” yet “enveloped . . . by a kind of darkness.” How can that be?

Insight Video: In light of Europe’s financial crisis, an editorial in the New York Times asked, “Where’s Charlemagne When We Need Him?” What can we learn from Charlemagne?

Before deciding how we give for humanitarian relief, and to whom we give, we need to be as sure as we can that we are giving wisely and effectively.

The World War II story of a young man in the Polish Underground invites us to consider what we idealize in others.

Pop psychologists freely use words such as introvert and extravert, but these terms can be misleading as well as harmful to personal development.

The year 2007 marks the 200^th anniversary of Britain and America outlawing human trafficking. Yet the slave trade is a flourishing reality.

Part One: Why was the translation of the Bible into English so violently opposed? First in a two-part series.

Is preserving the species, or even the planet, the ultimate in human meaning? Vision looks at three recent books that outline potential end-time disasters.

Vision publisher David Hulme talks with three historians and a filmmaker about the Holocaust. How could it have occurred, and could it ever happen again?

The letters that the apostle John sent to seven churches in Asia Minor carried vital messages for survival. And they provide instruction even today.

Kim Il-sung of North Korea created his own postcommunist Juche ideology of self-reliance, perpetuating a personality cult and savior dynasty.

Vision Publisher David Hulme, together with three historians and a filmmaker, continue their roundtable talk on Hitler, the Holocaust and human nature.

Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, spoke to Vision about the complexities of measuring the universe and of the human brain that attempts to make sense of it.

Various life experiences undoubtedly played their part in producing what is possibly George Orwell’s best known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four.