🐒China's rarest monkeys have surged from the brink of extinction to now becoming diplomatic ambassadors in Europe!

🇦🇲Armenian parliament has approved a universal healthcare insurance bill! 🧑‍⚕️This law will ensure mandatory health insurance for all citizens, which will be gradually rolled out over the next three years. 🏥The first people to be covered will be minors, people over 65 and several vulnerable groups.

🤩3 Things That Went Right This Week🤩 🇺🇸Property crime has fallen 66% in the US since 1990. 🇵🇭The Philippines Supreme Court ruled that members of same-sex couples can co-own property. 🇸🇴Somalia has opened its first modern bowling alley. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/the-quad-g...

🇧🇷📉The Daily Dose via @globo-news.bsky.social 🇧🇷📉 For the fifth year in a row, homicides have fallen in Brazil!

🤯The FDA has fast tracked the first ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer and we're still wrapping our heads around it.

🎲Researchers have figured out the rules to a Roman stone board game that has been unplayable since its discovery in the 1800s, thanks to AI. 😮Now you can play it too. www.scientificamerican.com/article/rule...

🏂With the Winter Olympics well underway, it's a reminder that progress is not only limited to politics and science. 🤩It’s unfolding in competitive sports. substack.com/home/post/p-...

🇮🇳💧The Daily Dose via the Ministry of Jal Shakti 💧🇮🇳 In 2019, only 17% of rural Indian households had access to tap water. As of January 29, 2026, that percentage has jumped to 82%. www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease...

🇨🇴📉The Daily Dose via @theguardian.com 🇨🇴📉 At the turn of the century, Bogotá was one of Latin America’s most polluted cities, but they've started to turn that around. Between 2018 and 2024, air pollution fell by 24%.

🇮🇪Between 2022-2025, Ireland ran a pilot program that funded 2,000 artists with €325 per week to reduce their need for alternative work and boost their creativity. 🧐Was it a waste of money?

"The journey of Black Americans from slavery to citizenship to voter — and the expanded access to democracy and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds that occurred alongside — is the signal achievement of the US," writes TPN member @drtedj.bsky.social.

"The world is thriving economically, more than ever and almost everywhere, to such a degree that it seems as if there is a funhouse-mirror effect between how people see conditions and what is happening in real life," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🎳Mogadishu has its first bowling alley! 🧐Why does that matter? "Urban planners and economists say businesses like the bowling alley signal a broader shift in Mogadishu’s recovery, as private sector growth increasingly complements international aid and government-led rebuilding efforts."

For the first time in at least a century, a gray wolf has been found in Los Angeles County. Its arrival is a milestone in the return of the long-embattled predator.

🇱🇦🇳🇵🇧🇩The Daily Dose via the UN 🇱🇦🇳🇵🇧🇩 Laos, Nepal, and Bangladesh are all on track to graduate from Least Developed Country status this year, according to the UN Economic and Social Council.

🪱Guinea worm may join smallpox as the second disease humans have successfully eradicated!

🇵🇰📈The Daily Dose via @gallup.com 📈🇵🇰 In 2023, only 15% of Pakistanis surveyed by Gallup said that they thought their standard of living was getting better. In 2025, that number doubled to 31%.

📉The overall property crime rate has fallen by 66% in the US since 1990. 🤔How come? 🎥Better locks, alarms, outdoor lighting, and the rise of doorbell cameras and informal neighborhood surveillance. 📺Consumer electronics are cheaper, easier to track, and harder to resell.

"Bad Bunny’s exclusively Spanish performance will be a purely and authentically American phenomenon—and a testament to what most US traditionalists should want: the undimmed power of American culture to bring people together across ethnicities through entertainment," writes TPN member Arthur Brooks

🇬🇧In 2025, homicides fell to their lowest level since 1977 across England and Wales. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

😎3 Things That Went Right 😎 📉Reported depression, anxiety & suicidal thoughts fell for the 3rd year in a row for US uni students 🌲Deforestation appears to have fallen in Colombia 🌊A first-of-its-kind underground hydropower system has begun operating in England. theprogressnetwork.org/covid-progre...

🪱📉The Daily Dose via @apnews.com 🪱📉 Only 10 human cases of guinea worm disease were reported in 2025. It is the lowest number ever recorded.

🍳🇮🇩The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 🍳🇮🇩 In 2000, only 7% of Indonesians had access to clean cooking fuels. By 2023, that number had jumped to 91%!

"What you don’t want to do is talk yourself into the corner where scarcity is a wealth-building strategy," writes TPN member @mattyglesias.bsky.social about housing.

🥳Did you know thanks to Covid’s retreat the American life expectancy is now at an all-time high of 79? 👇Let's talk about it. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/covids-qui...

How can we truly green can the green energy revolution be when it relies so heavily on rare earth metals? Artificial lightning may provide some assistance. A new process called "flash joule heating" is being used to recover these important elements from e-waste. tinyurl.com/2xunft8q

Men are showing up to participate in birth control trials. '''Men want this,' said Nadja Mannowetz, the chief science officer and co-founder of YourChoice, the San Francisco-based biopharma startup that is conducting trials for YCT-529.

🪱In 1986, an estimated 3.5 million cases of guinea worm disease were recorded. 📉Last year, only 10 cases of guinea worm disease were recorded, the lowest number ever. apnews.com/article/guin...

🇯🇵📉The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 🇯🇵📉 Deaths from stomach cancer have fallen in Japan by 70% since 1980.

⚖️ The first domestic violence offender registry in the US took effect earlier this month in Tennessee. 🪪The database will include the offender’s name, date of birth, and a photo and location of their convictions.

🚗⚡️The Daily Dose via @reuters.com 🚗⚡️ 20.7 million EVs were sold globally in 2025, which is a 20% increase from the year before.

😮Doctors at Northwestern University kept a man alive without his lungs for 48 hours by using a custom-engineered artificial device. 👏More than two years later, the patient has returned to daily life with excellent lung function. news.nm.org/northwestern...

😎The future is bright.

"Doom makes for compelling theater," writes TPN member @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social. "But a civilization obsessed with fictional annihilation risks missing a consequential reality: Its problem-solving capacity is compounding faster than the threats stemming from its apocalyptic imagination."

🤠3 Things That Went Right This Week🤠 👏The world set a new record this month: longest span of time without a nuclear explosion since the atomic era began. 🇺🇸Last year likely saw the lowest homicide rate in the US since 1900.

🇮🇳📉The Daily Dose via @timesofindianews.bsky.social 📉🇮🇳 Since 2015, malaria deaths in India have plummeted by 78%.

🤔How do you reverse a teenage pregnancy epidemic? 🇧🇷Brazil invested in sex education and healthcare.

📊 Explore updated data on HIV/AIDS— When HIV was first identified four decades ago, nearly 100% of those infected died, typically within a few years. Thankfully, global public health efforts and medical advances such as antiretroviral therapy (ART) have improved this situation dramatically.

It’s tempting to describe today’s abuses of power as unprecedented or as imported from somewhere else. History tells us otherwise. TPN founder Zachary Karabell argues that reckoning with what is happening now requires confronting what has always been here.

🐮This week we are dedicating the What Could Go Right? newsletter to Veronika, an Austrian cow that is upending what we know about bovine intelligence. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/a-bovine-b...

🇪🇺☀️The Daily Dose via @ember-energy.org ☀️🇪🇺 For the first time, wind and solar have generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU in 2025.

⏰Now that's an alarm system!

"The printing press changed what Christianity meant, ultimately cleaving it into multiple branches as Martin Luther’s writings and the vernacular bibles were broadly disseminated," writes TPN member Tyler Cowen. "AI is likely to do the same with our current set of religions."

⚡️For the first time ever, EV sales overtook standard petrol car sales in Europe in December 2025, according to new figures released by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

🇲🇽📈The Daily Dose via Mexico News Daily 🇲🇽📈 In 2024, more Mexicans were categorized as middle class than as living in poverty for the first time in history.

European leaders pledged Monday to build 100 gigawatts of offshore wind, enough to power more than 50 million households. As Europe faces a hostile Russia and an increasingly bellicose U.S., experts see deepening risks in its reliance on imported fossil fuels.

🦏Assam's parks have made dramatic improvements in the last 4 years.

🤔Can Europe stay united? 🇫🇮TPN member @ianbremmer.com sat down with Finland’s president Alexander Stubb on @gzeromedia.com to talk about Greenland, Arctic security, the war in Ukraine, and the future of the transatlantic relationship. www.gzeromedia.com/video/gzero-...

😮There hasn't been a fatal crash in Hoboken, NJ in 9 years! 🤔How did they do it? 📏Bigger curb extensions stretched sidewalks into intersections, forcing cars to slow down. 🚶Crosswalk signals give pedestrians a 7 second head start before drivers. 🐌The city also lowered speed limits to 20 mph.

🇨🇻💡The Daily Dose via The World Bank 🇨🇻💡 Cabo Verde has only 1,800 households left to go to reach universal electricity access. 98% of the country has reliable electricity and it looks like they will hit their goal of 100% by 2040 early.