The idea of matter as the basis of everything may seem beyond question. But a solely material view of the world doesn’t fill the enduring human need to understand why we’re here and what it all signifies.

Hoping to strengthen his people’s sense of identity, an anonymous chronicler documents their backstory.

In an age when human survival seems to be hanging in the balance, cosmologist Martin Rees speculates on our collective future.

The power of the Internet translates to the power of the people, and many of those people spend a part of each day in what has become a virtual courtroom. Is an everyman mob running amok on social media?

In the final chapters of Deuteronomy—the last of the five books of Moses—the man who led the Israelites out of Egypt to the edge of the Promised Land clarifies aspects of God’s laws and of His promises and warnings to the new nation.

If God is both loving and all-powerful, why doesn’t He prevent evil in the world? Is there a way to understand God’s relationship to violence?

How the universe came into existence continues to intrigue—and baffle—cosmologists. Can anyone ever know how it all really began?

Despite humble beginnings, it didn’t take long for tech giants to capitalize on personal data they could skim from their users. Where do we draw the line?

The mining industry may seem an unlikely place to find practical examples of the Golden Rule in action.

Insight Video: Around the globe, the illicit economy shows no signs of slowing. Whatever form it takes, corruption touches us all.

Everyone has had questions about life after death, yet what people think the Bible says about it is probably incorrect.

Mid-20^th-century technological advances caused many to ignore the potentially negative effects. One early voice of caution was that of Rachel Carson.

Vision publisher David Hulme interviews Afif Safiieh, a leading PLO representative, for a Palestinian perspective on how Jerusalem can achieve peace.

Researchers and policy makers around the world struggle to lead human germ-line editing into the future.

Twentieth-century totalitarians shared a number of characteristics. With a new crop of autocrats entering the world stage, learning the lessons of our recent history is vital.

Ignoring economic icebergs in pursuit of limitless growth is foolish. Like the Titanic, this ship is not unsinkable.

Vision interviews W. French Anderson, M.D., director of Gene Therapy Laboratories at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.

A first-century list of human failings also speaks to today’s struggles with division, discord and more.

Piers Millett of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute talks about potential global biological catastrophes stemming from such risks as bioterrorism, pandemic disease and genetic manipulation.

No system of government has yet proven to be the answer to humanity’s problems. Is there such a thing as perfect government?