As human beings, we tend to favor people we think are like us or have something in common with us—and we’re often wary of people who are different. Evolution made us this way so that we could find ...

Larger, more tolerant chimpanzee groups manage shared resources more effectively and exhibit less aggressive competition than smaller, more competitive groups. Tolerance functions as a group-level ...

As part of our event series with The Philosopher, Amna Akbar sat down with Bernard Harcourt, legal scholar and professor of political science at Columbia University, to discuss his new book, ...

To compete with Russia and China, Washington needs partners. One key way in which Washington has, can, and will secure these partners is by sending them weapons. This, in turn, requires the United ...

The theory of indirect reciprocity holds that people who earn a good reputation by helping others are more likely to be rewarded by third parties, but widespread cooperation depends on agreement about ...

Humans have a long history of cooperating together, which has helped us survive and thrive for hundreds of thousands of years in places around the world. But we don’t always cooperate well, even when ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. By Bob Sternfels Questions about multilateralism have grown louder in the past year—and the ...

The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about cooperation between Russia and China in the vast, inhospitable Arctic. A new strategy is aimed at countering that. Compared with hot spots like the Middle ...

Q: I have a question relating to cooperation with evil. Is it morally okay to buy a product that was made in countries (for example, China) in which slave and/or child labor was utilized simply for ...