The next time you’re searching through Airbnb listings, you may find there’s more to consider than just amenities and price. To stand out from the competition, some Airbnb hosts tout their personal ...

Two decades ago, the fight against climate change was often framed as a personal choice. You might try to reduce your carbon footprint by avoiding flights or change your buying habits to avoid meat or ...

Virtue signaling is the bane of contemporary civic life. Politicians, political parties, nonprofit organizations and even corporations loudly proclaim support for whatever cause is either trendy or ...

A Reform council has decided to rescind its climate and biodiversity emergency declaration, saying it was an example of ...

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “virtue signaling” is defined as “the act or practice of conspicuously displaying one’s awareness of and attentiveness to political issues, matters of ...

On March 1, 2025—only after the catastrophic Palisades and Eaton wildfires in January—Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency due to the “catastrophic wildfire risks created by forest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how college impacts students. In the months following the October 7th attacks, institutions didn’t know what to do.

During our recent challenging and disturbing times in America regarding remarkable racial injustices, discrimination, and police violence that climaxed with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, ...

Public moral discourse is toxic. One reason it’s so bad is that people use their discussions of morality and politics for self-promotion, rather than to help others. You may have heard people accuse ...

Two decades ago, the fight against climate change was often framed as a personal choice. You might try to reduce your carbon footprint by avoiding flights or change your buying habits to avoid meat or ...