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Progress in Five Minutes: Abolishing the Tampon Tax

Roots of Progress

Progress studies as a civic duty

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What Could Go Right? A life-saving pig kidney

The Progress Network

10/21/2021

What Could Go Right? A life-saving pig kidney

Plus, Norway is on track for 100% electric car sales, #MeToo’s positive effect, companies commit to zero-carbon shipping, and more.

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Emma Varvaloucas

Roots of Progress

10/19/2021

Progress studies as a civic duty

Life is convenient, comfortable, predictable, safe, and clean. Why don't we all have a basic education of how we achieved this?

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Jason Crawford

The Progress Network

10/14/2021

The Progress Network Celebrates Its First Anniversary

Maybe we aren't going to hell in a handbasket.

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The Progress Network

10/14/2021

What Could Go Right? Go ahead, have those babies

They’ll be all right despite our warming world. Plus, an undersea cable shares renewable energy, Bali cleans up its rivers, and more.

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Emma Varvaloucas

The Progress Network

09/30/2021

What Could Go Right? Rights and rewrites

LGBTQ wins worldwide, the US approves interracial marriage at record-high rates, and Portugal and Malaysia become vax leaders

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Emma Varvaloucas

The Progress Network

09/27/2021

A Malaria-Free World

What once seemed like a pipe dream—the global elimination of malaria—may now be possible, with the right focus.

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Emma Varvaloucas

The Progress Network

09/23/2021

What Could Go Right? The latest on long Covid

Plus, Black Americans can now more easily trace their lineage, a win for equal rights in Malaysia, and more

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Emma Varvaloucas

The Progress Network

09/16/2021

What Could Go Right? The next pandemic

Climate activists celebrate several wins, the possibilities of mRNA combination vaccines, free birth control, and more

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Emma Varvaloucas

The Progress Network

09/14/2021

Progress in Five Minutes: Abolishing the Tampon Tax

Periods aren’t a luxury, unless you ask the government. Here’s how that’s changing in the United States and around the world.

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Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar

The Progress Network

09/09/2021

What Could Go Right? Adios to Spain’s last coal mine

India gives us the world’s first DNA vaccine, Mexico decriminalizes abortion, and are US hospitals overcrowded from ivermectin cases?

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Emma Varvaloucas

The Progress Network

09/02/2021

What Could Go Right? Tax justice

If corporations and the 1% couldn't participate in tax gymnastics anymore

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Emma Varvaloucas

The Progress Network

08/26/2021

What Could Go Right? Three cheers for full approval

Have you heard the one that goes, Israel's hospitals are full of the vaccinated, so that means the vaccines don't work? We dig in.

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Emma Varvaloucas

Chicken little forecast

Still Chugging Along

Cool stuff to read

Progress in Five Minutes: Abolishing the Tampon Tax

Progress studies as a civic duty

What Could Go Right? A life-saving pig kidney

What Could Go Right? A life-saving pig kidney

Plus, Norway is on track for 100% electric car sales, #MeToo’s positive effect, companies commit to zero-carbon shipping, and more.

Progress studies as a civic duty

Life is convenient, comfortable, predictable, safe, and clean. Why don't we all have a basic education of how we achieved this?

The Progress Network Celebrates Its First Anniversary

Maybe we aren't going to hell in a handbasket.

What Could Go Right? Go ahead, have those babies

They’ll be all right despite our warming world. Plus, an undersea cable shares renewable energy, Bali cleans up its rivers, and more.

What Could Go Right? Rights and rewrites

LGBTQ wins worldwide, the US approves interracial marriage at record-high rates, and Portugal and Malaysia become vax leaders

A Malaria-Free World

What once seemed like a pipe dream—the global elimination of malaria—may now be possible, with the right focus.

What Could Go Right? The latest on long Covid

Plus, Black Americans can now more easily trace their lineage, a win for equal rights in Malaysia, and more

What Could Go Right? The next pandemic

Climate activists celebrate several wins, the possibilities of mRNA combination vaccines, free birth control, and more

Progress in Five Minutes: Abolishing the Tampon Tax

Periods aren’t a luxury, unless you ask the government. Here’s how that’s changing in the United States and around the world.

What Could Go Right? Adios to Spain’s last coal mine

India gives us the world’s first DNA vaccine, Mexico decriminalizes abortion, and are US hospitals overcrowded from ivermectin cases?

What Could Go Right? Tax justice

If corporations and the 1% couldn't participate in tax gymnastics anymore

What Could Go Right? Three cheers for full approval

Have you heard the one that goes, Israel's hospitals are full of the vaccinated, so that means the vaccines don't work? We dig in.

Cool stuff to read

Plus, Norway is on track for 100% electric car sales, #MeToo’s positive effect, companies commit to zero-carbon shipping, and more.

Life is convenient, comfortable, predictable, safe, and clean. Why don't we all have a basic education of how we achieved this?

Maybe we aren't going to hell in a handbasket.

They’ll be all right despite our warming world. Plus, an undersea cable shares renewable energy, Bali cleans up its rivers, and more.

LGBTQ wins worldwide, the US approves interracial marriage at record-high rates, and Portugal and Malaysia become vax leaders

What once seemed like a pipe dream—the global elimination of malaria—may now be possible, with the right focus.

Plus, Black Americans can now more easily trace their lineage, a win for equal rights in Malaysia, and more

Climate activists celebrate several wins, the possibilities of mRNA combination vaccines, free birth control, and more

Periods aren’t a luxury, unless you ask the government. Here’s how that’s changing in the United States and around the world.

India gives us the world’s first DNA vaccine, Mexico decriminalizes abortion, and are US hospitals overcrowded from ivermectin cases?

If corporations and the 1% couldn't participate in tax gymnastics anymore

Have you heard the one that goes, Israel's hospitals are full of the vaccinated, so that means the vaccines don't work? We dig in.

What could go right in the future?