It’s alarmist to say that one-half of a percent of the euro’s G.D.P. could cause the collapse of the currency.

The chances for getting climate change policies through Congress—or through Parliaments worldwide—are greatly improving thanks, in part, to the terrible tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.

We don’t need an energy or resources tax; we need an instrument for letting resource prices rise in parallel with resource productivity.

We don’t need to surrender anything that would drastically alter our way of life, but we need to think of our grandchildren.

We could be much more pro-active in lessening our impact on the environment. Energy-efficient cars and “passive houses” can make a real difference.

The financial system has drifted away from the industrial and commercial system, and the leaders of financial institutions have found they can make a lot of money by building organizations […]

Even though China and India are expected to have as much as 40 percent of the world’s GDP by midcentury, incomes in those countries will still be one-third of those […]

Why an “inside outsider” might be the next person most suited to take over a company.

A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor.

Our minds don’t capture and record reality, but rather blend experience with fantasy—a process that often results in convincing, yet completely false, memories.

Remaining mentally active and engaged is critical to retaining information as we age.

The neuroscientist explains how our mind produces memories and why they actually alter our DNA.

Less than 5% of Alzheimer’s Disease cases are genetically transmitted. The disease is a consequence of aging, and doesn’t target specific demographics.

Simply paying attention can do a lot to improve recollection, but scientists are also working on a wide variety of memory-boosting drugs.

A protein that scientists once thought was a “piece of garbage in the brain” turns out to play a key role in memory formation. At high concentrations, however, it spells […]

A conversation with the professor at the Taub Institute for Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University.

Our “insidious” digital overconnectedness can pose a major challenge.

What the philosopher can still teach us about grief versus stoicism and “the role of emotions in the good life.”

The military ethicist believes Abu Ghraib represented an ethical breakdown “from the top down.” But have things changed under Obama?

From the Iliad to Afghanistan, the field of military ethics has tried—not always successfully—to impose rules on the chaos of mass slaughter.

We’re taking better psychological care of soldiers than we used to. But with deployments getting longer and longer, far more needs to be done.

Maddening boredom. Utter numbness. Comradeship so intense that it threatens family ties. War’s worst psychological effects can be the ones you’d never expect.

From mangled bodies to the twisted psychological world of Abu Ghraib, the stories Middle East veterans tell Nancy Sherman reveal a side of war not shown on TV.

In some ways, the psychology of combat hasn’t changed since Troy. But modern wars have also brought their own unique traumas.

The “Untold War” author first became interested in the psychology of combat by observing her father’s tight-lipped silence about World War II.

A conversation with the Georgetown philosophy professor and author of “The Untold War.”

The most successful leaders of business and government gain that power by being able to persuade their constituencies with a compelling story.

The screenwriting guru talks about what it was like to see himself portrayed by Brian Cox in the film “Adaptation.”

Film has hit a dead-end as a storytelling medium, says McKee, because it’s expensive and conservative—and what experimentation there is exists more to show off than to provide meaning.

Don’t try to put plot points on specific page numbers, says the screenwriting guru.