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Common Ground with Jane Whitney
Is The World Getting Worse – Or Better
Season 2
Episode 210
It’s more than a meme that the world is getting worse, and yet, year by year statistics show life is improving for most people around the world. More of us live better than ever, even if few of us believe the good news. The disconnect between the spreading sunlight of progress and most people’s growing gloom is creating a toxic political environment paving the way for autocracy and plutocracy.
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