THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

Inheritance tax at 40 per cent is paid by a relatively small but growing number of people's estates. Those whose home or savings drags them into the inheritance tax net often want to avoid loved ones ...

(Image: Bertrand Russell and W.M. Newton, Editor, BBC Talks Department.) The inaugural Reith Lecture was given on 26 December 1948 by Bertrand Russell. In a series of 6 talks Russell spoke on the ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Skylar Clarine is a fact-checker and expert in personal finance ...

Can paying attention establish a new field? Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first person to definitively link trait inheritance to a specific chromosome and his white-eyed flies. Table 1 provides ...

‘The very word “America” remains a new, almost completely undefined and extremely controversial proper noun,’ James Baldwin wrote in 1959. ‘No one in the world seems to know exactly what it describes, ...

Professor Robert Oppenheimer explains how human communities resemble atoms in the final Reith Lecture from his series 'Science and the Common Understanding'. Show more This year's Reith Lecturer is ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

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