Cultivate curiosity, and really listen: how to persuade people whose politics you don’t agree with

The long read: Every year, thousands of bikes are tossed into rivers, ponds, lakes and canals. What’s behind this mass drowning?

124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day

«As Uber launched across India, Kalanick’s top executive in Asia urged managers to focus on driving growth, even when “fires start to burn”. “Know this is a normal part of Uber’s business,” he said. “Embrace the chaos. It means you’re doing something meaningful.”»

After more than a decade of writing life-changing advice, I know when to move on. Here’s what else I learned

After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet. But its benefits mask enormous dangers to ecology, to health and to culture itself

Friendship is as essential to good health as eating right and getting enough sleep, experts say.

I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences

I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.

«I’ve come to believe that friendship doesn’t always have to be about presence; it can also be about love that can weather absence.»

Fortunate is the person who has reached the age of 50 without having had to grieve. To be among the grieving, the bereaved, is an experience most of us go through, excepting only those who die…

«Grief presents us with a rare opportunity to relate to ourselves more fully, rationally, and lovingly.»

In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles

«As a rising middle class started to focus on their own family trees, creating an ‘elite’ from new money, so dogs started to be classified too.»