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Was COVID Also an Inequality Pandemic?
COVID slowed but couldn’t stop the fall in global inequality.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
When Pregnancy Tests Killed Rabbits
Going down the rabbit hole of history reveals many routine cruelties now left behind thanks to scientific progress.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
This Mother’s Day, Celebrate Progress for Mothers and Children
The woman who inspired Mother’s Day lost 9 of her 13 children to now-preventable illnesses.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
Cardwell’s Cage and How to Break Free
History's cycle of progress and stagnation can be broken.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
This Earth Day, Progress for Our Species Protects Others
Humanity’s relationship with wildlife is being rewritten.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
A Reality Check on the Inequality Panic
Calls for wealth redistribution rest on a faulty premise about inequality.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
Beheading Live Geese Used to Pass for Easter Merriment
Remembering the callous diversions of yore can help put the modern world into perspective.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
Past Imperfect
Past Imperfect
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