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Children Are Expected to Spend More Years Learning

Norberg: Famine in Africa Is Worse than Ever? Dead Wrong!

Freezing Offers Solution to Electronic Waste

U.S. and Canada Among Leaders in Giving

Urbanization Is Good for the Environment

October 12, 2015

Virgin Galactic Selling Tickets to Space for $250,000

Blue Origin's New Horizon Rocket to Offer Rides

Primary and Secondary Education Have Expanded Globally

India's Forest Cover Increasing Faster than World Average

The Dramatic Decline in World Poverty

October 08, 2015

Norberg: Is Subsidizing Our Importers a Good Idea?

The World Is Much Less Hungry than Before

Plastic-Eating Fungus Helps Solve Garbage Problem

Matt Ridley: Is it OK to Be Optimistic?

Competition Could Propel Mankind to Mars

October 07, 2015

American Women Are Winning the Fight with Breast Cancer

Norberg: Do Minimum Wages Mean Minimum Jobs?

The Number of Children with HIV Is Declining

“Brewed Blood” Could Help Combat Sickness

Economic Growth Slashed Global Poverty to Historic Low

October 05, 2015

There Are More Physicians than Ever

Tech to Speed Emergency Room Care

Machines Detect Cancer DNA in Blood

Deaths Due to Extreme Weather Have Drastically Fallen

Free Enterprise Does Not Increase Poverty

October 02, 2015

Deirdre McCloskey: How Commerce Protects Us

New Vaccine to Cure Deadly Rotavirus Disease

Insect Eye Inspires New Camera for Smartphones

Oil Reserves Have Almost Tripled Since 1980

The Most Important Thing that the New York Times Left Out

October 01, 2015

Why Seven Billion People Doesn't Mean Overpopulation

A New Drug May Lower Heart Risks by One-Fifth

Steven Pinker: Why Do We Remain So Pessimistic?

The Next Innovation in Shipping: Wind Power?

Sorry, George Carlin, Plastic Is Biodegradable

October 01, 2015

Capitalism and Neoliberalism Have Made the World Better

Startup Grows Chicken Strips from Cells

The Number of Vegetables Harvested Is Booming

Infant Mortality Across the Globe Has Fallen Dramatically

The Self-Made $4,000 Suit and the Benefits of Exchange

September 30, 2015

The Size of the U.S. Military Is Shrinking

Snus Helps Sweden Nearly Eliminate Smoking

Deirdre McCloskey: How Ideas Enriched the World

BRCA Breast Cancer Drugs Benefit Everyone

Private Philanthropy Promotes Human Wellbeing

September 28, 2015

Trade Barriers Have Fallen over Time

Human Progress Inauguration: Ron Bailey, Robert Samuelson

Medical Selfies Can Diagnose Your Disease

Matt Ridley: How Exchange Is Driving Human Development

Hans Rosling Predicts End of Poverty by 2030

September 25, 2015

Synthetic Yeast Will Yield New Antibiotics

U.S. Executions Have Fallen over Time

Artificial Intelligence Transforming the Workplace

Matt Ridley: How Prosperity Evolves

$1,500 Sandwich Illustrates How Exchange Raises Living Standards

September 25, 2015

Scientists Discover New State of Matter

Slum Populations Decreasing in Developing World

“Chatbots” Soon to Diagnose Disease

Value Added U.S. for Manufacturing Continues to Grow

Human Ingenuity and the Future of Food

September 24, 2015

There are More Female Leaders Around the World

Norberg: Why the Rust Belt Rusted