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Life expectancy

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U.S. Life Expectancy Increases for the First Time in 4 Years

Thanks to the first fall in drug overdose deaths since 1990, plus a continuing decline in cancer deaths

Ronald Bailey | 1.30.2020 11:10 AM

Always too soon

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Death Rate of Middle-Aged Americans Rises for Third Year

U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014.

Ronald Bailey | 11.26.2019 3:35 PM

Life-is-getting-better-start

Optimism

Stossel: Life Is Better Than Ever

Don't believe news reports—we're healthier, richer, and safer than ever before.

Maxim Lott and John Stossel | 9.17.2019 9:05 AM

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Poverty

Global Poverty Decline Denialism

An anti-market ideologue tortures the data at The Guardian.

Ronald Bailey | 1.31.2019 1:10 PM

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Opioids

American Life Expectancy Drops Again

The failing drug war is largely to blame.

Ronald Bailey | 11.29.2018 1:00 PM

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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker Wants Enlightenment Now!

Pope Francis is part of the problem, nuclear energy is part of the solution, and libertarians need to admit that not every regulation will turn us into Venezuela.

Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin | 3.22.2018 3:08 PM

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Grim News: U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for a Second Straight Year

Largely due to increases in opioid overdose deaths

Ronald Bailey | 12.21.2017 11:15 AM

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Health Care

Americans' Lifespans High Without Single-Payer or Nanny State Health Interventions

Lack of single payer hasn't seemed to hinder superior progress made in terms of life expectancy gains in the U.S. since UN records start in 1960.

Marian Tupy | 6.6.2017 7:00 AM

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Price controls

President Trump: Pharmaceutical Price Controls Are a Bad Idea

Americans would save some money now, but at the long-run cost of sicker and shorter lives

Ronald Bailey | 3.10.2017 1:30 PM

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Death Rate for Young White Americans Is Rising Instead of Falling

An estimated 111,000 excess premature deaths occurred in white individuals between 1999 and 2014

Ronald Bailey | 2.2.2017 1:30 PM

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Cancer

Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall: Incidence Declines for Men and Remains Steady for Women

Good news: Cancer mortality rate has dropped from its peak of 215.1 (per 100,000 population) in 1991 to 166.4 in 2012.

Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2017 11:30 AM

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U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for First Time Since 1993

Male life expectancy dropped 0.2 of a year; female life expectancy was 0.1 of a year lower.

Ronald Bailey | 12.8.2016 4:15 PM

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Aging

Aging Is a Disease and It's Time to Cure It

After all, none of us is getting any younger.

Ronald Bailey | 12.2.2016 1:30 PM

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Aging

Time to Declare Aging a Disease and Get On with Curing It: New at Reason

Who wants to live to be a 100? Someone who is 99 years old. Especially if he feels like a 25 year-old.

Ronald Bailey | 12.2.2016 1:30 PM

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College

Want to Live Longer? Then Go to College

New study by Brookings Institution scholars reports the mortality reduction benefits of higher education.

Ronald Bailey | 10.18.2016 2:15 PM

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Technology

There's Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive

Ronald Bailey reviews Johan Norberg's new book celebrating Progress

Ronald Bailey | 10.14.2016 1:30 PM

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Technology

Ten Reasons to Look Foward to the Future: A Review of Progress by Johan Norberg

There's never been a better time to be alive

Ronald Bailey | 10.14.2016 1:30 PM

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How Much Better Off Is the World Since You Were Born?

Go find out at "Your Life In Numbers" over at the Human Progress program at the Cato Institute

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2016 3:30 PM

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Life Expectancy Up Around the World

Great strides made since the 1960s

Marian Tupy | 8.2.2016 7:00 AM

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Technology

American Pessimism: Only 6 Percent Think the World Is Getting Better

Over the past century, the prospects and circumstances of most of humanity have spectacularly improved

Ronald Bailey | 7.7.2016 10:13 AM

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Americans Are Living Healthier Longer

Nearly 2 years more of disability-free life expectancy

Ronald Bailey | 6.13.2016 11:05 AM

Cuba

Cuba's Literacy Rate, Life Expectancy Nothing to Lionize

Dictatorships may value literacy as much as democracies, but they value life a lot less.

Marian Tupy | 4.19.2016 7:00 AM

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Poverty

The Dying of the Poor White Americans

The gap in life expectancy between the top and bottom 1 percent of income for American men is nearly 15 years. For women, it's 10 years.

Ronald Bailey | 4.11.2016 12:32 PM

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Income

The Rich Are Living Longer: A Lot Longer Than the Poor

Rich men average 12 years longer; rich women average 10 years more.

Ronald Bailey | 2.17.2016 12:23 PM

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Death Rate for Middle Aged U.S. Whites Anomalously Rising

Drugs, suicide, and liver disease responsible for 500,000 extra deaths since 1999.

Ronald Bailey | 11.3.2015 2:22 PM

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U.S. Death Rate Decline Has Slowed

And still the ultimate death rate remains frustratingly stuck at 100 percent.

Ronald Bailey | 10.28.2015 12:06 PM

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Children

Half the Number of Kids Die Before Age Five Now Than Did In 1990

Global life expectancy up more than six years too.

Ronald Bailey | 2.27.2015 9:18 AM

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Next Generation Will Live to Be 100

"The first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already," asserts anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2015 12:03 PM

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U.S. Life Expectancy Increases by 6 Weeks—Needs to Go Up by 52 Weeks Per Year At Least

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2014 2:41 PM

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CDC: Americans Living Longer Than Ever

Across all groups

Reason Staff | 1.6.2014 6:30 PM

Capitalism

Cheer Up—Things are Getting Better

Can you guess which "ism" is making that happen?

A. Barton Hinkle | 11.11.2013 2:00 PM

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Technology

Human Progress: Not Inevitable, Uneven, and Indisputable

We haven't achieved utopia, but a new website documents the enormous progress humanity has made, especially over the last two centuries

Marian Tupy | 10.30.2013 7:00 AM

Extinction

Kill Yourself to Protect Biodiversity

Ronald Bailey | 10.11.2013 12:05 PM

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Ronald Bailey on HuffPost Live at 5:00 pm EST, Talking Low U.S. Life Expectancy

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2013 11:19 AM

Olympics

Olympic Medalists Live Longer

More useful research

Reason Staff | 12.14.2012 7:30 PM

Life expectancy

Americans are Living Longer

But we're not getting healthier

Reason Staff | 12.11.2012 12:32 PM

Research

Castrated Men Live Longer

But ... why would they want to?

Reason Staff | 9.26.2012 4:08 PM

Happiness

United States: 114th Out of 143 on the Happy Planet Index

Ronald Bailey | 7.2.2012 4:54 PM

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