Below, Gene Ludwig shares five key insights from his new book, The Mismeasurement of America: How Outdated Government Statistics Mask the Economic Struggle of Everyday Americans. Americans keep ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When I think about what makes someone care about the natural world, ...

You’ve seen it happen: you present a fact—clear, verifiable, undeniable—and instead of reconsidering their position, the other person doubles down. “I just don’t believe it,” they say, as if facts ...

James Harvey Robinson, a noted historian at Columbia University in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wrote the following. “We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ...