Mackenzie Schmidt is the Home and Travel Editor for PEOPLE. She's worked at PEOPLE for over five years as a writer and editor on the Lifestyle team. Finland has a lot to smile about. The Scandinavian ...

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When Michael Birkjær first heard that he was one of the happiest people in the world, his initial response was one of scepticism. Like many of his fellow Danes, Birkjær doubted that a tiny country on ...

Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. In my neighborhood, everyone gets a chance to live with Santa. Östanfors — an old miners’ district in ...

AFTER a year of tension, blitzkrieg and terror, Scandinavia seems to have reverted to its former rôle as the "quiet corner" of Europe. Mars, with his retinue of reporters, broadcasters and cameramen, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that arguing about the definitions of terms like "capitalism" and "socialism" is a waste of time. So I will simply assert that the world has many flavors of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. As a second wave of Covid-19 infections sweeps across Europe, ...

Kaylee Greenlee, a former member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation, is a reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation. Liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep.