2018 will bring the demise, or projected decline, of three vehicles of outstanding personality

With its own population shrunken by emigration, Armenia was happy to welcome as many Syrian Armenians as would come

100 larvae might consume one shopping bag a month, as one of our most popular science articles of 2017 reported

In the OECD, a group of rich and middle-income countries, median wages for women working full time are 85% of those for men. One of our most popular explainers from 2017

In American federal courts nearly all convictions are obtained via plea bargains. The fear is that innocent people are pleading guilty to avoid draconian sentences

What must an ambitious young American do to get rich?

What the eyes and smells of couples reveal about sexual attraction was one of our most read science stories of the past year

Students’ psychological well-being matters just as much as schooling does for their eventual performance, suggests a recent study. One of our most popular charts

Agony aunt advice columns through the ages often did more than reflect social change: they advocated it

The cacao grown in the strip of fertile plain running from the Pacific Ocean to the foot of the Andes is a cut above. From the best of The Economist’s 1843 magazine in 2017

Saying black lives matter is simply reminding people that for most of American history black lives have been valued less than white ones

Today's young people are brainier than any previous generation—yet their elders are stopping them from reaching their potential

Issues such as climate change become more tangible to those with the tools in their hand to measure them

In 26 years Australia has navigated the Asian financial crisis, the collapse of the dotcom bubble and the Great Recession, largely without scars

Given the thousands of potential country-variety pairs, a monkey throwing darts would have virtually no hope of getting a single one right. Oxford and Cambridge students, on the other hand, performed surprisingly well