The United Nations' widely recognized Human Development Index defines a nation's well-being as a combination of health (life expectancy), education, and standard of living (per capita income)...

10 May, 2020

The Social Progress Imperative's Social Progress Index primarily distinguishes itself from other indices by measuring social progress directly, independent of economic development...

10 May, 2020

The New Economic Foundation's Happy Planet Index is combining data from a variety of sources to determine which nations are best achieving long, happy, sustainable lives for their people...

10 May, 2020

It's the town time was kicked out of, a tiny and unique village just off the beaten path that still looks and feels much like it did in the 1700s, when community seemed to mean a lot more than it does today...

10 May, 2020

Just doing your job can be 21st century citizenship if you're in public service; pandemic optional. The Samuel J Heyman awards honor the nation's top civil servants--these are their stories...

09 May, 2020

Regression in software and statistics is used to find mistakes; in politics, it's being used to make them...

24 April, 2020

COVID-19 kills by quietly destroying your lungs; by the time you start feeling pain and find yourself gasping for breath, it's too late. Let that not be the same for our country...

16 April, 2020

There's ample war-time precedent for what it takes to be a war-time president, and Donald Trump is falling short in every conceivable way...

06 April, 2020

One of the best new board games in the board game renaissance happens to be highly educational and about the biggest crisis our country has faced since World War II and the Great Depression combined...

03 April, 2020
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