An Insight

"I like to quote the founder and proprietor of Our World in Data, who said that the papers could have had the headline: “187,000 people escaped from extreme poverty yesterday, every day for the last 30 years.” But you never saw that headline, and as a result, a billion people… pic.twitter.com/uCIVYF6ke8

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) September 9, 2026