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Muddying the Waters on Falling Global Poverty: It's falling no matter which (necessarily arbitrary) line you use to define "poverty." Ryan Bourne defends me against belligerent Al Jazeera interviewer.

Another example of how "progressives" hate progress, preferring "The worse, the better." (Attributed to Lenin, though he probably never said it.) https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/leftists-are-trying-muddy-waters-falling-global-poverty via @CatoInstitute

Pundits too often conflate "liberal order" with "American-led." US has not been at the forefront of a rule-based international system (which itself has not characterized the world in the first postwar decades). Patrick Porter disputes popular nostalgia.

Crossing the Atlantic, then and now. @HumanProgress https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1436 #HumanProgressData

Pundits too often conflate "liberal order" with "American-led." US has not been at the forefront of a rule-based international system (which itself has not characterized the world in the first postwar decades). Patrick Porter disputes popular nostalgia.

Has global extreme poverty increased, decreased, or stayed the same over the past 20 years? 95% of Americans get the answer wrong. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1276 #HumanProgressData

Evolution in action: "Cities are the new Galapagos," notes Matt Ridley. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1267 #HumanProgressData

Newly designed Web site for http://HumanProgress.org - highly recommended. Trends, data, and commentary. https://www.humanprogress.org/

What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress? https://www.cato.org/blog/what-newspapers-reported-real-news-about-human-progress via @CatoInstitute

Fears of China getting richer and more globally engaged are largely misplaced: It was when China was poor and insular that it started wars and starved & brutalized its citizens. https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/responsible-stakeholders-why-united-states-should-welcome-chinas via @CatoInstitute