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Susan Cain says introverts create great things but society is biased against quiet and reserved people.

The US must learn from this: "The Beveridge Report ushered in the welfare state which destroyed social problems but created a new monster - the idea that the state owes us something. When Sir William Beveridge wrote his report 70 years ago arguing for the creation for the welfare state he wanted to give the poor a hand up from the grim life they faced. But a dependency culture has since emerged which provokes fury among politicians and public alike. So is the nation ready for change? Are we on the brink of another welfare revolution?"

Gruesome footage of a toddler falling victim to two successive hit-and-run accidents and then ignored by many passers-by at the scene last week in southern China continued to galvanize the nation Monday, prompting a fierce debate on the state of morality in Chinese society.

Even as they've grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, most Americans still view single mothers as detrimental to society, according to a new poll of attitudes toward the country's soaring number of non-traditional families.

Forbes magazine's recent cover story "When Work Doesn't Pay For the Middle Class" illustrates many of the issues the middle class faces regarding the unintended interactions between work, marriage and taxes. We'd also like to point out that these unintended interactions pose serious problems for an often overlooked segment of our society--the working poor.