Big Ideas
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.



Tarot and Talk Therapy
By Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan Most of us are eager for information that reveals a hidden truth, or a solution to a seemingly intractable problem. Talk therapy is one way to find answers, and more than 40 percent of Americans have sought help from a mental health professional. A less validated (but nonetheless highly

Tarot and Talk Therapy
By Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan Most of us are eager for information that reveals a hidden truth, or a solution to a seemingly intractable problem. Talk therapy is one way to find answers, and more than 40 percent of Americans have sought help from a mental health professional. A less validated (but nonetheless highly

The World is Struggling to Manage its Aging Population
By Bernd Debusmann Call it baby bust and oldster boom — two trends that signal a demographic transformation without precedent in human history. In much

Goodbye American Democracy, Hello Civil War?
By Bernd Debusmann, “The United States is coming to an end. The question is how.” That is the opening line in a book entitled “The

Tea and Sympathy and Lies
By Edward M. Cohen In 1953, “Tea and Sympathy” opened on Broadway to raves and controversy, mainly because it tackled a taboo subject, homosexuality. But

A Very Kurt Conversation
By Robert Basler, “Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of

Long Route to Beirut
By Robert Basler, Although it baffles me when I try to remember why this was, I used to enjoy occasional stints at the Reuters United

The Phenomenon of Internet 101-ism
By Nadia Schmidtke, An abundance of information within our reach is a dream that few could’ve imagined half a century ago. But how could we

The Gabby Petito Case Highlights our Obsession with the Missing
By Leah Eichler When I was 12, my uncle spontaneously decided to whisk me and my brother away to Florida for our birthday. The plan

Honey, a Robot Took my Job and That’s OK
By Leah Eichler “Are you saying, Dad, you’re glad you lost your job?” “In many ways, Josie, yes. And it’s not like I really

Unnatural Barriers: How 19th-Century Train Tracks are Still Shaping Today’s Cities
By Richard Berman Urban planning has always existed in a bit of a fantasy world. All you need to do is look at covers of
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.