Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

Disarmament Week seeks to promote awareness and better understanding of disarmament issues and their cross-cutting importance. Starting on 24 October, the anniversary of the founding of the United ...

James McWhinney is a long-tenured Investopedia contributor and an expert on personal finance and investing. With over 25 years of experience as a full-time communications professional, James writes ...

For most of the twentieth century, geopolitical analysis rested on a comforting fiction: that the world could be divided cleanly into categories. States were allies or adversaries, wars were declared ...

Chocolate or strawberry? Life or death? We make some choices quickly and automatically, relying on mental shortcuts our brains have developed over the years to guide us in the best course of action.

When I was asked to write a book on empathy back in 2012, I dove into the research and found a great deal of confusion and a great many things that concerned me. First, there was very little agreement ...