What Could Go Right?

    What if instead of being on the brink of disaster, we’re on the cusp of a better world? No one can deny the challenges the world faces, from pandemics to climate change to authoritarianism. But pessimism and despair are too easy a response. Each week, Progress Network Founder Zachary Karabell and Executive Director Emma Varvaloucas convene a diverse panel of experts to discuss the central issues of our era, including sustainability, polarization, work, and the economy, and make the case for a brighter future. They emerge from their conversations with a counterintuitive but informed take: progress is on its way

  • BONUS: We want to hear from YOU

  • Looking Back and Moving Forward

  • Introducing What’s Your Problem: The World Is Getting Better with Hannah Ritchie

  • The Progress Report: Legislative Transplants

  • Election Reflection with Robert Wright

  • The Progress Report: Recovered Life Expectancy

  • The Throes of Trumplandia with Ana Marie Cox

  • The Progress Report: Here and Now

  • Maggots, Monkeys, and Mars with Mary Roach

  • The Progress Report: Looming Changes

  • Past and Present Power with Peter Frankopan

  • The Progress Report: Advancements and Deposits

  • Undertaking Utopia with Kristen R. Ghodsee

  • The Progress Report: Improving Communication

  • The Beleaguered Club of Eternal Optimists with Bill Burke

  • The Progress Report: Good Decreases

  • From Hamas to Hezbollah with Steven A. Cook

  • A Community Fight in Wisconsin, From To See Each Other

  • The Progress Report: Positive Innovation

  • The Dish on Disinformation with Jiore Craig

  • The Progress Report: Interest Rates of Social Change

  • The Attention Deficit with Gloria Mark

  • The Progress Report: New Discoveries

  • What's So Good About Immigration? with Zeke Hernandez

  • The Progress Report: Shifting Attitudes

  • The Politics of Ranked Choice with Andrew Yang

  • The Progress Report: Expect the Unexpected

  • Introducing The Global Story

  • The Progress Report: Medical Advancements

  • The Kamala Pivot with Evan Osnos

  • The Two Sides of Gene Editing with Kevin Davies

  • The Progress Report: Smarter Insulin

  • Elite Gatekeepers with Musa al-Gharbi

  • The Progress Report: Pro-Democracy Protests

  • Psychedelic Sea Change with Oshan Jarow

  • The Progress Report: Olympic Strides Forward

  • Beyond the Bluff with Maria Konnikova

  • The Progress Report: Green Steel Revolution

  • The Wild Week with Bret Stephens

  • The Progress Report: The Implications of an Assassination Attempt and A Global News Roundup

  • Mental Health & the Impact of Therapy Culture with Author Abigail K. Shrier

  • The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of New Media with Buzzfeed's Founding Editor Ben Smith

  • Introducing Say More: Beating Burnout with Krista Tippett

  • The Progress Report: Decriminalizion of Marijuana & A Global News Roundup

  • India Rising with Ravi Agrawal

  • The Progress Report: Repairs to the Ozone & A Global News Roundup

  • How to Be a Supercommunicator with Journalist & Author Charles Duhigg

  • The Progress Report: Elections in the EU and A Global News Roundup

  • Progress, Polarization, and Backlash with CNN host Fareed Zakaria

  • The Social Media Generation with Psychologist Jonathan Haidt

  • Red, White, and Due: The Polarizing Topic of Taxes with Scholar Vanessa Williamson

  • The Poll Miner: Elections and Polling with CEO John Gerzema

  • Being Jewish Today with Author & Professor Noah Feldman

  • America's Next Economy with Natalie Foster

  • Veterans and Invisible War: Lessons from Phil Klay

  • The Honesty of Our Economy with Allison Schrager

  • A Colorblind Nation: A Conversation About Race and Progress With Coleman Hughes

  • Introducing What Could Go Right: A News Show Making the Case for a Brighter Future

  • Introducing The Ongoing Transformation: Finding Collective Advantage in Shared Knowledge

  • Progress Check: Season 5 Recap with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

  • Lessons From Former Presidents with Jared Cohen

  • Inside Election Administration with Arizona's Secretary of State with Adrian Fontes

  • Marxism and Modern Society with Freddie deBoer

  • Can We Collectively Change the Internet? with Chris Anderson

  • Is Free Speech Dead? with Greg Lukianoff

  • Progress Check: 2024's Election Frenzy with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

  • Hashtag Trauma with Scott Barry Kaufman

  • A Science of Culture with Michael Muthukrishna

  • Revisiting The Feminine Mystique with Rachel Shteir

  • Climate Capital and a Green Tech Future with Jigar Shah

  • Progress Check: Politics and AI, Homeless Vets, and STDs with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

  • Change Is the Operative Force of History with Drew Gilpin Faust

  • Not Too Late for the Climate with Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua

  • Progress Check: Climate Dads, Cell Phone Bans, and Asteroid Sampling with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

  • Navigating Israel-Palestine with Ian Bremmer

  • The Great Awokening's Great Mistakes with Yascha Mounk

  • A System Under Stress: Lincoln and Today with Steve Inskeep

  • Progress Check: Catching Up on the News with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

  • Introducing What’s Your Problem: Building a Plane to Help Save the World

  • Introducing Smart People Podcast: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

  • Introducing Ones and Tooze: Could Green Hydrogen Revolutionize the Energy Sector?

  • A Look Back and A Look Forward with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

  • Renovating Our House with Danielle Allen

  • A Better World with James Pethokoukis

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Science with Sara Walker

  • How to Be Optimistic About America with John Avlon

  • Ukraine's Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

  • Demon Drugs and Moral Panics with Maia Szalavitz

  • Artificial Unintelligence with Baratunde Thurston

  • Challenging the Consensus on China with Jessica Chen Weiss

  • Demanding More: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa with Ebenezer Obadare

  • The Boys Are Not All Right with Richard Reeves

  • The Globalization Myth with Shannon O'Neil

  • How to Create Positive Change with Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali

  • Entangled with Isaac Saul

  • Bootstrapping the American Dream with Alissa Quart

  • Government Secrecy with Matthew J. Connelly

  • Living Up to America's Promises with Peniel E. Joseph

  • Moral Ambition with Rutger Bregman

  • Good Indicators: A Bird's Eye View of 2023 with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

  • Misinformation, Climate Momentum, and Negative Headlines with Bina Venkataraman

  • The Modern Muslim World, Social Media's Positive Effects, and Gay Marriage in America with Mustafa Akyol

  • The Fix for Crypto, Healthcare, and Equal Opportunity with Avik Roy

  • Moving Away from Toxicity: Recapping the Midterms with Steve Clemons

  • Democracy on the Ballot, Climate Change, and Salary Transparency

  • World Energy, Student Loans, and Iran with Reza Aslan

  • Midterms, Gerrymandering, Bias, and Conspiracy with Sharon McMahon

  • Space News, Hearing Aids, and a Changing Tomorrow with Jason Feifer

  • Pardons, Guaranteed Income, and "Superabundance" with Gale L. Pooley and Marian L. Tupy

  • Why Is Violent Crime Rising? with Jennifer Doleac

  • Legalizing Marijuana, Electric Cars, and What’s Going on with California? with Sen. Robert Hertzberg

  • Vaccine Equity and Bipartisan Reality with Rep. Eric Swalwell and Gov. Jeff Colyer

  • The New Space Race with Ché Bolden

  • Facing America's Biggest Challenges with Victoria Pratt & Lauren Leader

  • The Interfaith Imperative with Eboo Patel

  • Wisdom for Smart Tech with Ayesha Khanna

  • Race in America, 2 Years After George Floyd with Theodore R. Johnson

  • The Philanthropic Moment with Rachel Pritzker and David Callahan

  • Global Trade: The Race to the Top with Gregg Easterbrook

  • Pandemic "Retrospective" with Nicholas Christakis and Ezekiel Emanuel

  • The Information Horizon with Tyler Cowen

  • The World Post-Putin with Anne-Marie Slaughter

  • The Happiness Rebellion with Arthur C. Brooks

  • Does Work Work Anymore? with Roy Bahat

  • The Progress Movement with Jason Crawford

  • The Plague Cycle (Bonus)

  • Bridging Our Divides (Bonus)

  • The Population Explosion (Bonus)

  • Our Lonely Century (Bonus)

  • We Are the Outrage Machine (Bonus)

  • The Crypto Dream (Bonus)

  • This Changes Everything: The World-Turning Power of Ideas (Bonus)

  • Rethinking Today's Capitalism (Bonus)

  • The Next Wave of Higher Education (Bonus)

  • Maybe We're Not F*cked: Moving the Climate Conversation Forward (Bonus)

  • Live from Web Summit: An Affordable Internet & Pharmaceutical Psychedelics (Bonus)

  • Live from Web Summit: Drone Delivery & Turning Buildings into Teslas (Bonus)

  • A Future We Want with Yancey Strickler

  • You Can't Say Anything Anymore with Suzanne Nossel

  • Global Change Starts at Home with James Fallows and Parag Khanna

  • What's Next for the World? with John McArthur

  • Are We In a Transformational Moment? with John Wood, Jr.

  • GDP Ain't Measuring Up with Diane Coyle

  • Politics Doesn't Have To Be Our Everything with Jonathan Haidt and Alison Goldsworthy

  • Building a Better Internet with Danielle Keats Citron and Eli Pariser

  • The Future of Work with Zeynep Ton and Joan C. Williams

  • The Raging 2020s with Alec Ross

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