“Favorite good news” for 2025 includes these four facts
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
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Do you sometimes find yourself feeling anxious without an apparent explanation? Are there days when things are good in your personal world, but that world is somehow not enough? Let’s consider a juxtaposition. The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker similarly cites data showing that “global life expectancy, affluence, and literacy are at all-time highs, while extreme poverty and violent crime are at all-time lows.” However, according to Gallup, US mental health ratings have also fallen to an all-time low. Why are so many people so unhappy amid such prosperity?
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| 0:51.2 | It's Tuesday, December the 30th, 2025. |
| 0:54.9 | You've joined us for the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article, authored by cultural theologian, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:07.2 | Do you sometimes find yourself feeling anxious without an apparent explanation? |
| 1:12.9 | Are there days when things are good in your personal world, but that the world is somehow not enough? |
| 1:19.6 | I know the feeling. |
| 1:20.8 | Let's consider a juxtaposition. |
| 1:23.0 | An article on favorite good news from this year includes these headlines. |
| 1:28.7 | Heart attack deaths dropped by nearly 90% since 1970. |
| 1:33.4 | U.S. crime dropped across multiple categories in 24 and 25. |
| 1:39.3 | The fight against colon cancer made progress, and a groundbreaking therapy slowed Huntington's |
| 1:46.5 | disease for the first time. The Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker similarly cites data showing |
| 1:52.9 | that global life expectancy, affluence, and literacy are at all-time highs, while extreme |
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