Global life expectancy climbs, but preventable deaths remain high
Adolescents and young adults are facing risks that earlier generations escaped. In North America and Latin America, deaths among people aged 20 to 39 are increasing. Drugs, alcohol, and suicide are taking more lives each year. Sub-Saharan Africa faces a different struggle, where infectious diseases and unintentional injuries still dominate.
The Left Needs to Rethink How It Handles Inequality
Working for predistributional change means intervening into the workings of American capitalism; it also means adopting more broadly popular policies and rhetoric. The Left should take note.
AU suspends Madagascar as military leader to be sworn in as president
Among other things, the Madagascar protesters have railed against chronic water and electricity outages, limited access to higher education, government corruption and poverty, which affects roughly three out of every four Madagascans, according to the World Bank.
The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights
A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next.
Evolving Folks Project 