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This column will not render a verdict on whether the White House decision last week to suspend immigration from Nigeria, the world’s seventh most populous nation, and five other countries was mainly an expression of bigotry from an administration led...

Whether or not “broken windows” policing tactics actually work is one of those debates that will never really end, mainly because there are so many different understandings of what broken windows means. “Whenever somebody mentions broken windows, the...

Fifty per cent of Americans are now “concerned believers” in global warming. That is the finding of a new Gallup “cluster analysis” of responses to a poll conducted this month. It is also a record, although the percentage was actually a pretty simila...

My main new year’s resolution for 2017 is pretty much the same as always: stop eating Christmas cookies, cut back on the drinking and get back to the gym. This resolve tends to stick for much of the year — only during the next holiday season does eve...

Children and teenagers in the world’s developed countries have a more than 50 per cent chance of living past 100. By the early 2100s, in other words, “being a centenarian will no longer be a rarity. In fact, it will be the norm”. That from Lynda Grat...

At some point, everyone knew, Netflix’s subscriber growth in the United States had to slow down. The company’s video-streaming service is nearing market saturation among its core demographic — affluent young-to-middle-aged people — meaning further ga...

In the United States, a large if perhaps shrinking share of the population wants to elect as president a reality-television star with no apparent interest in learning anything about governing or the world around him. In Britain, a majority of voters...