While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh, whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was and the ramblings of various ex-prime ministers, Brookings has reported on an epoch-making event we’ve all missed:
Something of enormous global significance is happening almost without notice. For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty.
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