Authors of the 2025 World Happiness Report noted several key findings that showed the world is trending toward greater ...

Americans, in particular, also tend to underestimate the empathy of other people, the report says, because of increasing ...

Despite GDP per capita in the U.S. and Western Europe having continually risen since the mid-2000s, a drop in the happiness ...

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday "aimed at eliminating" the U.S. Education Department.

Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, raised the funds to set sail for Paris so ...

What happens to that single-use plastic bottle after you, a conscientious citizen, place it in a recycling bin? Most people, ...

Nigeria ranks 105th in the Global Happiness Report, making the West African country one of the saddest nations on the planet ...

Lebanon has the world’s weakest currency in 2025. Since 2019, Lebanon has been facing a severe financial crisis due to ...

Overall, researchers said global evidence on the perceived and actual return of lost wallets shows that people are much too ...

F OR A COUNTRY known for long winters and high taxes, Finland appears remarkably chipper. On March 20th it came top of the ...

(Kenny Holston | The New York Times) Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on March 4.

I’m Nicholas Kristof. I’m an opinion columnist for The New York Times. I’ve been covering the world since the 1980s, and I ...