Nordic people are at the top of their game. The World Happiness Report, published Wednesday, reveals Finland as the happiest place in the world, with Norway, Denmark, and Iceland following its lead.

One hears too often that Nordic economies (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) are based on socialist systems with sky-high taxation that are void of opportunities for entrepreneurial ...

Liberals in the United States wistfully regard Scandinavia as a kind of social utopia, while conservatives denounce it as a socialist state where government overreach is ubiquitous. Yet across the ...

Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland frequently feature in the top ten of the world press freedom rankings. We spoke to ...

The Nordic countries are the most gender equal nations in the world, but at the same time, they also have a disproportionately high rate of intimate partner violence against women. This is perplexing ...

If the Nordic countries represent the horizon of possibility for world unfettered by capitalist exploitation, please end me now. Those who claim that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland, ...

Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report, with fellow Nordic countries also continuing to rank highly. The United Nations ...

Anu Partanen left her home country of Finland seven years ago, and she'd like to set one thing straight. Contrary to the popular belief that Nordic countries make the list of happiest countries year ...

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The Nordic diet emphasizes whole grains, fatty fish, berries, legumes, root vegetables, and rapeseed oil while limiting ...

Finland's Sanna Marin, the world's youngest prime minister, has suggested Nordic countries such as her own may be better at embodying the "American Dream" than the U.S. "I feel that the American Dream ...