More than 400 peer-reviewed studies. $26 million in NIH research. A formal American Heart Association endorsement. For fifty years, Transcendental Meditation accumulated evidence that science had no good framework for. It's getting one now — and what the brain scans show is extraordinary.
Read the story →The most recent stories on the accelerating arc of human progress across all dimensions.
The choice is not between today's welfare state and yesterday's poorhouse. It is whether government must…
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The self-help industry cheapened the question. Science has now answered it seriously. Forty percent of your…
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PwC calls it seniorization: entry-level jobs didn't vanish under AI, they started demanding skills once reserved…
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Nobel Prize-winning economists and new demographic research show AI job doom predictions ignore two massive blind…
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A nursing home bed now costs $129,575 a year. Medicare won't pay for most of it.…
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In 1947, Levittown sold 17,000 starter homes for $7,990 each and gave a generation its first…
Read →More people live under democracy today than at any point in recorded history. Markets have lifted billions. The arc of human freedom is accelerating.
The choice is not between today's welfare state and yesterday's poorhouse. It is whether government must…
Read →Americans gave $617 billion to charity in 2025 — a record. It is also nowhere close…
Read →The New Deal did not invent government aid. It transformed scattered relief into a permanent federal…
Read →The average human lives 25 years longer than in 1950. The drugs, the diagnostics, and the data are moving faster than ever.
Americans have more healthcare than ever, pay proportionally less out of pocket, and lead the world…
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America's healthcare system — covering 92% of the population, costing patients just 11 cents of every…
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A nurse with a smartphone. A single retinal photograph. An algorithm that reads it in seconds…
Read →As material needs are met, the search for meaning accelerates. Science, philosophy, and human experience are converging on something remarkable.
More than 400 peer-reviewed studies. $26 million in NIH research. A formal American Heart Association endorsement.…
Read →The self-help industry cheapened the question. Science has now answered it seriously. Forty percent of your…
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Every time technology has eliminated a major category of human labor, the freed energy has flowed…
Read →Violent crime, war deaths, and disaster fatalities are all near historic lows. The world is safer than headlines suggest.
In 1900, there were almost no democracies on earth. A handful of partial exceptions existed —…
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In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. Oil slicks and industrial waste on…
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3× Increase in the share of world population living under some form of rule of law…
Read →Solar costs fell 99% in 40 years. Nuclear is making an unexpected return. Clean energy is winning on every measure that matters.
The minerals powering the clean energy transition are running out on land. But 21 billion tonnes…
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The plant sits on a lava field in southwest Iceland, powered by geothermal electricity, drawing air…
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After seven decades as the punchline of clean energy — always twenty years away, always —…
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In 1820, 88% of humanity could not read. Today, 87% can. A Harvard-quality education now costs $0. The knowledge arc is just getting started.
Before the internet, quality education required proximity to elite institutions. Geography was destiny. Then came the…
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From red flag laws for cars to banning data centers in Missouri, the pattern is identical…
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In 1900, roughly 9,000 scientific papers were published globally. The number is not a typo. The…
Read →Famine has nearly disappeared. Crop yields have tripled since 1960. The planet fed 5 billion new people. Markets did most of it.
The factory is in Denmark. It looks like a brewery — because it essentially is one.…
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3× Increase in global cereal yield per hectare since 1961 — same land, three times more…
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96% Less land required to produce precision-fermented dairy protein vs. conventional cow’s milk Source: Frontiers in…
Read →From tenements to modern homes — shelter has transformed more in 75 years than in the prior millennium. The next chapter is being written now.
A nursing home bed now costs $129,575 a year. Medicare won't pay for most of it.…
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In 33 states, childcare costs more than college tuition. This did not happen because children became…
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America has 3.7 million too few homes. The solution is sitting in backyards across the country…
Read →The richest generation in history is wrestling with loneliness. The data on wellbeing is complicated — and more hopeful than the headlines.
The self-help industry cheapened the question. Science has now answered it seriously. Forty percent of your…
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Okinawa has more centenarians per capita than almost anywhere on earth. Research points to one factor…
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America ranks first in wealth per capita and 23rd in happiness. The data reveals an unprecedented…
Read →The first index that measures human progress across 9 dimensions — Health, Safety, Education, Nutrition, Housing, Happiness, Energy, Freedom, and Transcendence — for every US state and country worldwide. Not GDP. Not sentiment. The actual arc.
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