I first encountered my friend Dr. Gary Slutkin’s work nearly two decades ago, and it changed the way I see the world. Not in the incremental way that most good ideas adjust your thinking—a new variable here, a refined model there—but in the way that a truly Copernican-scale idea does: by rotating the entire frame, […]
One of the singularly best things the United Nations produces each year is the Human Development Report, a flagship annual publication that tracks and analyzes the state of human progress around the world. What makes the Report so remarkable is that it combines rigorous data analysis with an ever-changing and (for the UN) quite expansive point […]
Amid the pageantry and celebration of Pope Leo XIV’s recent election, the new pontiff offered a striking explanation for the selection of his new name. In one of his first public addresses, Leo reflected on his 19th-century namesake, Pope Leo XIII, whose landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum – “On the Rights and Duties of Capital and […]
