Eight years ago, world leaders adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to make profound changes by 2030. Now, at the halfway mark, the path of progress is disappointing. This is a ...

Societies do collapse, sometimes suddenly. Nevertheless, prophets of doom might keep in mind that their darkest predictions have been, on the whole, a little premature. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, a ...

On the platform of London’s Kingsway Hall, eight teen-age boys & girls grinned and fidgeted in their chairs. Some chewed gum, others smoked cigarettes—and no one tried to stop them. It was a great day ...

1. More children are surviving today than ever before. Close to 8 million more children in the world survive to see their fifth birthday than in 1990 — a 60 percent decline in annual under-five child ...