The French magazine Charlie Hebdo describes itself as a punch in the face. So get ready America, because Charlie Hebdo is coming to town, online and in English.

Ukraine-born Eugene Hutz is the lead singer of the band Gogol Bordello. Although the band is based in New York and Hutz himself has lived there for years, identity and Ukraine help define the band.

Equatorial Guinea is both repressive and oil rich but almost everyone there is poor. A cartoonist uses his drawings to point the finger at the country's long-time dictator. But now he's been arrested.

How does laughter yoga make you feel? And can laughing improve your health?

Doctors and nurses use gallows humor to get through the day. But when is laughter in medicine OK, and when does it cross the line?

Comedian Chris Gethard says comedy helped him when he was suffering from depression—but it wasn’t until he got help that his career took off.

The neuroscientist Sophie Scott says modern science is missing a big part of human experience by ignoring laughter.

Kurt Andersen and Mary Harris, the host of Only Human, check out something called laughter yoga.

The US tax code is notoriously dysfunctional. Meanwhile, countries from New Zealand to Estonia have devised equitable, effective tax structures.

Tuesday was a historic day for women in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom's leader issued a decree that will allow women to drive. It's the culmination of a battle they had fought so hard for, for years.