Opinion

Can horses feel shame? Do deer grieve for their dead? Why do roosters deceive hens?What about humpback whales that act as if they’re grateful, adulterous magpies or pigs that have learnt their own names?These...

Complex phenomena are more straightforward in their infancy, and social institutions are better understood through examples from the past. For instance, how is elite rule enforced? Thucydides, the Athenian...

The past 12 months might go down in history as a ’selfie’ year; Selfie with a capital ’S’. We take endless photographs of ourselves, our faces, our bodies, our food and our clothes and send them...

I saw the best minds of my generation” being dog-walkers or asking ’Would you like fries with that?’”This may well be the sentiment of plenty of young people under the age of 30 across the developed...

Confirmed: China is now, in real terms, the world’s single largest economy, having overtaken the US in 2013 and the EU in 2016 – and keeps growing at an annual 6-7% rate, while developed countries...