Assault, Rape & Homicide Archives - HumanProgress

Iranians Could Have Internet Freedom—If the U.N. Got Out of the Way

October 20, 2022

How Much Do You Know About Homicide Trends?

December 11, 2020

Why We Should Appreciate Peaceful Transitions of Power

November 16, 2020

Centers of Progress, Pt. 14: Benin City (Security)

October 21, 2020

How Have Homicide Rates Changed Worldwide?

Female Genital Mutilation Is Outlawed in Sudan

We Can Make the Post-COVID World a Much Less Violent Place

Discovery of 3000 Year Old Human Sacrifice Victims in England

In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Knife

February 01, 2019

Firearm Related Homicide Has Fallen 29% in the U.S. since 1990

Goldberg: Human Progress and How We Might Blow It

Introducing the New and Improved HumanProgress.org

Steven Pinker on “Enlightenment Now” at the Cato Institute

School Shootings Have Actually Become Rarer in the United States

February 26, 2018

Review of Steven Pinker’s New Book “Enlightenment Now”

February 12, 2018

No Evidence of a Murder Wave Targeting Gay Americans

February 11, 2018

Major U.S. Cities Getting Safer Despite Trump's Claim of “Carnage”

January 29, 2018

For 27 Years, NYC Crime Rate Drops in Every Borough

January 16, 2018

World’s Getting Better, but U.S. Democracy Isn’t

December 19, 2017

Child Marriage Has Become Rarer Globally

December 04, 2017

Why the Idea that the World Is in Terminal Decline Is So Dangerous

November 01, 2017

How Economic Prosperity Spared Witches

October 31, 2017

Declining Poverty Helps to End Witch Hunts

October 30, 2017

Data Give Hope After Charlottesville Violence

August 21, 2017