[S]pend some time surfing around at HumanProgress.org, which compiles endless amounts of data on the improving state of humanity. Keep reading until it sinks in.

Spend 20 minutes poking around HumanProgress.org for all the good news you can stomach.

The eternally optimistic data nerds at the libertarian Cato Institute’s Human Progress project . . . highlight . . . fun . . . fact[s].

Human Progress [is] dedicated to publicizing the gap between the reality and the perception of many measures of world well-being.

The data-driven site and blog curates data from third parties like the U.N., the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. . . . Taken together, the charts and graphs on Human Progress show that humans are doing better . . . over the past century—from gender equality and violence to economic freedom.

[HumanProgress.org] culls the best resources on development, health, and progress—and illustrates the massive improvements in our global economic, social, and cultural situation, despite the doomsayers’ drumbeat.

At HumanProgress.org, you will find a wide range of datasets and maps that allow you to discover how the human condition has changed over time. It makes me happy to commend it to your attention.

Need some more good news? HumanProgress.org collects indicators that show that humanity is improving.

Human beings have a glass-half-empty problem. . . . [HumanProgress.org] highlight[s] all the good stuff that gets lost in the chaos as we fret about our dystopian present and the looming apocalypse.

A fascinating new website . . . Its interactive maps and tables allow you to examine for yourself the ways in which the "evidence from academic institutions and international organizations shows dramatic improvements in human well-being."