Laufey is a talented artist from Iceland who combines old-fashioned jazz and modern pop sounds to create classic and new music. Her songs often talk about love, dreams, and finding yourself ...

Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

The humble paper check had a good run, but it’s all nearly dead today. Originally developed one thousand years ago in the Middle East, checks were the most widely used non-cash payment method in ...