George Scialabba:

Fifty-plus years into the Antidepressant Age, it's still not clear that drugs are better than placebos. Universal financial security is probably the single best countermeasure to the depression epidemic.

Anna Clark:

Over the past thirty years, reports CAP, "average tuition for a four-year college has increased more than 250 percent" -- accounting for both public and private schools -- while average family income increased only 16 percent.

The Economist Espresso:

Wealth is so unevenly distributed that you need just $3,650 (less debts) to count yourself among the richest half of the world. A mere $77,000 puts you among the wealthiest 10%. And $798,000 places you in the wealthiest 1%.

Michael Hobbes:

Maybe the problem isn't that international development doesn't work. It's that it can't.

Ryan Avent:

Is work -- and the link between work and the earning of an income sufficient to live on -- so important to society that we should want millions of people to function as meatware: doing jobs sensors and computers could and would do if only there were not an excess supply of humans needing to work in order to afford food and shelter?