"I envision an America where people on TikTok — both famous and not — use language carefully to make a point and are admired for how effectively they did so," writes TPN member John McWhorter.

🤠3 Things That Went Right This Week🤠 🚀NASA astronauts are on their way to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years 🫦The full network of clitoral nerves has been mapped for the first time

🌍📉The Daily Dose via @unicef.org 🌍📉 Since 1990, child mortality has dropped by 60% worldwide and neonatal mortality fell by 45%.

"While their right to vote is no more sacred than anyone else’s, their service is a distinct claim to that right," writes TPN member @drtedj.bsky.social about absentee voting for members of the military. "And casting a ballot should be easier for them than it is for the commander in chief."

😮This week in our newsletter, we're talking about the fact that in 2025 deaths from terrorism were at a 10-year low. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/global-ter...

🇵🇭📉The Daily Dose via Philstar 🇵🇭📉 According to the Department of Labor and Employment, 319,000 children in the Philippines have been withdrawn from child labor over the past three years.

👪Divorced couples will now be able to negotiate joint custody of their children in Japan 😮Previously their Civil Code required couples to decide which parent would take custody of their children when they divorce.

🚀For the first time since 1972, NASA is sending astronauts to the moon! 😮They will not land there, but they plan to travel on a 10 day journey around the moon that will take them further from Earth than a human has ever been. ⏰The scheduled launch is at 6:24 PM EST www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

🇺🇸📉The Daily Dose via @stateline.org 🇺🇸📉 Since 2023, opioid overdose deaths in the US have dropped nearly by 46% as of October 2025, according to Stateline analysis.

"...no one has ever been brought to their senses with hatred and rage. On the contrary, this will make the problem worse," writes TPN member Arthur Brooks about how to win back the loved one who has gone down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole.

🥳Almost 30 years after the intricate web of nerves inside the penis was plotted out, the same mapping has finally been completed for the clitoris!

🇲🇽🦋The Daily Dose via @theguardian.com 🦋🇲🇽 According to WWF Mexico, the population of monarch butterflies in Mexico increased 64% this winter, compared with the same period in 2025.

🇨🇳For the first time, China has committed to reducing fossil fuel emissions.

"A world devoid of introspection would resemble a schoolyard full of children picking fights forever, unable to perceive how their actions affect one another," writes TPN member @chatterton.bsky.social .

🛩️A Scottish airline is the first commercial airline to fly an all-electric aircraft on one of its routes, a short hop from Glasgow to Dundee. www.thenational.scot/news/2595196...

🐈🇺🇸The Daily Dose via Best Friends 🐈🇺🇸 The number of cats killed in shelters has gone down 75% compared to a decade ago in the US.

😍3 Things That Went Right😍 🇨🇱Chile is creating the world’s 3rd-largest protected marine area 🇺🇸 The adult cigarette-smoking rate has fallen to single digits for the first time in the US 🇧🇷Brazil has unveiled a plan that pledges to reach zero deforestation by 2030 theprogressnetwork.org/overpopulati...

"Of course you turn on a tap and you get hot and cold clean water, you flick a lever and waste disappears, you flick a switch and you’ve got light," says TPN member Steven Pinker in conversation with Marian Tupy for @humanprogress.bsky.social.

🌏📚The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 🌏📚 In 1985, only 53% of young people in South Asia were literate. By 2023, that number had jumped to 93%.

🦦 Otters, once scarce, have returned across the Great Lakes basin. Threats remain, but the recovery has been remarkable. www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-ot...

"With the passing of academic Paul Ehrlich on March 13 has come what might be called obituaries of the 'good riddance' genre, not in regards to the man himself but to his doomsaying," writes TPN executive director Emma Varvaloucas. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/the-underp...

🇬🇧📉The Daily Dose via @uk.theconversation.com 🇬🇧📉 Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen to their lowest level on record.

⚡️In 2025, 96% of cars bought in Norway were electric.

"Few things reveal a democracy’s character like who it lets vote and what it takes to qualify," writes TPN member @drtedj.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🚀 NASA has announced a timeline for a base on the Moon and the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft that will be sent to Mars. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

🗳️🌍The Daily Dose via DW News 🗳️🌍 In 2000, only 8% of lawmakers in Africa were women. Today, 23% of them are.

"There will forever be prophets of doom. But just because they get more attention than prophets of hope doesn’t make them right," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell. edgyoptimist.substack.com/p/false-prop...

🐦Warsaw Zoo has opened a new emergency room for wild birds. 🏥The 24/7 emergency room in the Polish capital is actually a system of automated metal containers — something like a parcel room — where the containers can keep the birds warm in winter.

📉🇺🇸The Daily Dose via @npr.org 📉🇺🇸 Between 2023 and 2024, fentanyl overdose deaths in the US fell by 30%.

"'What is the meaning of my life?' is a question that cannot be answered like 'How do I build an app for finding concert tickets?' or 'How do I create an effective six-month weight-loss program?'" writes TPN member Arthur Brooks.

🇦🇪A massive project in Abu Dhabi that aims to prove that 24/7 solar power is possible is due to become operational next year. 📉The falling cost of batteries has been key to its development. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

📉🌎The Daily Dose via PAHO 📉🌎 According to a new report, 6.2 million fewer people are experiencing hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024 compared with 2020 numbers. It is the fourth consecutive year that undernourishment decreased in the area.

🤯Things that would have blown our minds in 1989.

🤩3 Things That Went Right This Week🤩 🏳️‍🌈India elected its first openly queer member of Parliament 🗻Bearded vultures have returned to the Alps after they had been declared extinct there 📉Fentanyl overdose deaths in the US have dropped by 30% between 2023 and 2024 theprogressnetwork.org/american-goo...

🏙️🫁The Daily Dose via @theguardian.com 🫁🏙️ 19 cities across nine countries have cut air pollution by at least 20% since 2010.

"No one wants to be infamous economist Irving Fisher, who said just before the October 1929 crash that stock prices had reached 'what looks like a permanently high plateau,'" writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell.

🪘France has returned a sacred talking drum looted from Cote d’Ivoire more than 100 years ago. 🗣️Before and during colonial times, it was used to send messages over several miles to announce deaths or celebrations. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"It occurs to me that maybe what we need in this moment is an American Good List—big and little things across the country that inspire us, that keep us going," writes TPN executive director Emma Varvaloucas. Here are some things that would be on ours.

🇺🇿The Daily Dose via @euronews.com 🇺🇿 1.5 million people were lifted out of poverty in Uzbekistan in 2025.

📉The number of American teens sucking on vapes has dropped to the lowest level in a decade.

"Before you protest, let me repeat that I am not saying you should fast from news entirely, or just throttle back on politics in general and away from political commentary entirely," writes TPN member Arthur Brooks.

🧬For the first time, prosecutors in Zimbabwe used lion DNA forensics to successfully convict two people for poaching and trafficking.

🇬🇧📉The Daily Dose via @carbonbrief.org 🇬🇧📉 The last time coal use was this low in the UK, William Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

Women in Missouri may soon be able to get divorced even if they are pregnant.

😮Yes, "Lava Cooling Manager" is a career in Iceland. 🤔The job? 🌋Cooling lava enough to control it and steer it away from major landmarks. 👏In late 2023, they managed to protect the power plant, the Blue Lagoon and most of the houses after an eruption. 🚒Now they're preparing for the next one.

🇰🇷📉The Daily Dose via @koreajoongangdaily.com 🇰🇷📉 The number of people who died by suicide in 2025 dropped 7.4% from 2024, marking the first decline in South Korea’s suicide rate in three years.

"Having spent my career studying the biological and social roots of collective human behavior, I understood that wider circles of people exchanging ideas can make groups tighter and more inventive," writes TPN member @nachristakis.bsky.social about teaching in Kyiv.

🦜The world’s “beefiest” parrot, which is critically endangered, is participating in a mating frenzy in New Zealand. 🤔The cause? 🍒A massive bloom of rimu berries www.scientificamerican.com/article/kaka...

💍📉The Daily Dose via @columbiauniversity.bsky.social💍📉 Over the past 25 years, almost 70 million child marriages have been averted globally.

🥲Poor Michael Bay.