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Common Ground with Jane Whitney

Is The World Getting Worse – Or Better

This 12-episode series features deep-dive conversations with the nation’s leading thinkers, leaders and experts around the nation’s most important issues. It explores national public affairs issues from government and politics to the environment and global affairs, with a mission to inform and inspire communities through shared dialogue and providing thought-provoking suggestions and solutions.

Is The World Getting Worse – Or Better

Season 2 Episode 210 | 56m 46s | CC

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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