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We live in a time marked by pessimism. Battered daily by negative headlines and facing a post-COVID world whose problems seem manifold and everlasting, it’s easy to assume we are heading for disaster. It may be that the story of chaos and collapse will prove to be true. If so, the information and analysis undergirding that view are readily available. We need little help making those arguments. But what if it’s not true? The ideas and evidence for the opposite outcome, largely unheard, exist in equal measure. The Progress Network connects and amplifies those voices that are pointing our world in a more positive direction, providing a template for a stable and sustainable future. Our contributors come from diverse fields of business, tech, journalism, politics, and more, but are united in their conviction that humanity’s ingenuity and willingness to cooperate for the common good is ultimately more potent than forces pulling in the other direction. Source

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The World Is Much Less Murderous

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. By now, you’ve doubtless heard the president claim that the American crime rate is the lowest it has been since 1900. Okay, not quite.
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What Could Go Right?

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie in Heated Rivalry | Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max Heated Rivalry mania has taken over the country. While it hasn’t cracked the top 10 most-watched shows in the United States at the moment, the “gay hockey show,” as it’s lovingly referred to online, is decidedly having a moment.
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What Could Go Right?

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. 2026 is off to a deeply unnerving start. Yet there are still some things we are anticipating this year with excitement rather than trepidation.
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50 Great Things That Happened in 2025

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. What words come to mind when you think about 2025? Chaotic? Disruptive? Violent? Well, by the time you get through this list of our 50 favorite progress stories of the past year, you might feel like adding uplifting, inspiring, and encouraging.
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Did Anything Good Happen in the US in 2025?

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By Emma Varvaloucas
| The Progress Network
This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. This year has been rough going for America—I’m assuming you don’t need a review. But did anything good happen at all? Thankfully, yes. Below, please find some of our favorite stories of progress in the US in 2025. And check your inboxes next Thursday for the global version of this list before we close for the holiday break.
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What Could Go Right?

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. Gisèle Pelicot at the trial of her former husband in Avignon, France, November 2024 | Photo by Laurent Coust/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) As Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving last week, a bill that would have redefined rape as nonconsensual sex was stalling out in Italy’s Senate.
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The Baby Who Got His Own Cure

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. It was 2024, and a baby named KJ had just been born. He had his mother’s bright blue eyes, just like his three older siblings. Within days, however, it was clear something was seriously wrong. Little KJ was diagnosed with CPS1 deficiency, a rare liver condition in which ammonia builds up in the blood and eventually causes organ damage.
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What Could Go Right? - Tobacco Endgame

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By Emma Varvaloucas
| The Progress Network
This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. New Zealand considered, then dropped the idea and the United Kingdom might soon run with it, but as of this week the Maldives beat them both to the punch. The island nation just became the first in the world to institute a generational tobacco ban, which prohibits young people born on or after January 1, 2007, from smoking, buying, or selling tobacco.
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What Could Go Right?

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. What if there were a drug so powerful that it could transform your life? The people who are on it are all educated, rich, happy, healthy, and surrounded by friends. Sometimes things go wrong, but they bounce back in no time. Even better, the drug has no side effects and is free. Would you take it? I think we all would.
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No Kings Breaks New Ground

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By Emma Varvaloucas
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This is our weekly newsletter, What Could Go Right? Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday at 5am ET. You can read past issues here. Over at The Atlantic, George Packer is trying to continue to love America, and finding it very difficult.
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