Global crises like the Covid-19 pandemic, worsening climate change and the war in Ukraine have started to reverse decades of human progress in education, life expectancy and standards of living around ...

Why would we default to the negative notion that the latest step forward in the digital revolution is surely a terrible misstep? To quote Thomas Babington Macaulay, the 19 th-century English historian ...

Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here. What if we invented a technology to save the planet—and the world refused to use it? This haunting hypothetical first popped ...

Examine and delight in women’s suffrage wins and the growing number of women in professional and government roles. Members of the lower house of Japan's Parliament applaud after Prime Minister Sanae ...

In the annals of history, the first half of 2025 will be remembered for many things. I’d venture that very few are aware of one of the most momentous achievements in human history occurred in the past ...

You can see it in the news. Rather than hearing about supposedly sophisticated, enlightened people, every day there are stories that seem to have been ripped from history pages about ancient ...

"The tragedy of today is that we are the heirs and the beneficiaries of thousands of years of progress and we take it for granted. You wake up in a nice soft bed. You go get fresh milk and orange ...

Chase Koch, Koch Inc. executive vice president and ‘Becoming a Principle Driven Leader’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss his new book, top principles for human progress, how to navigate today's ...