On 25 April (the 60th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA) I attended a conference on genetics in downtown Boston. The conference venue was just a few blocks from where ten days before two bombs had exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, so I went to the site.

What does leadership mean in a complex and increasingly diverse world, and how do we find what is right? Bhavesh Patel looks at leadership in a human centred organization.

U.S. democracy hangs in the balance, writes Rob Corcoran. Political partisanship has paralyzed the federal government. There are many causes for the dysfunction in Washington but a major factor is the seismic demographic and cultural shift that is occurring as a long-established majority becomes a minority.

While Indonesia still struggles with violence and religious intolerance, Miftahul Huda shows how initiatives to build trust between people of different faiths can overcome prejudice and ignorance.