What makes poor people poor? What can they do about their poverty? Paul Polak started International Development Enterprises to answer these questions.

In a 2007 poll, 58 percent of children said they would choose happiness over wealth. But what does it take to make people happy? 

Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first black African to hold the position, served from 1997 to 2006. 

The European “process model” of governing carries two troublesome risks.  The first is a moral dilemma. The second is its vulnerability to tyranny.

The European “process model” of governing carries two troublesome risks. The first is a moral dilemma: where does a secular society look when setting moral boundaries?

The idea that global peace can be achieved through world government has a long history. But how realistic is this hope?

On the heels of extensive government intervention in economies around the world, Ayn Rand made a comeback. Is her philosophy really the answer?

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

American and British researchers have identified several indicators that child care now occupies less of the average adult’s lifetime than in past decades.

The actual process of money creation occurs in depository institutions, principally commercial banks.