
Emma Varvaloucas
Executive Director at The Progress Network
Host at What Could Go Right?
👩🏻💻 @progressntwrk, previous life @tricyclemag 🎧 host of What Could Go Right? podcast 📝 writer of the What Could Go Right? weekly newsletter
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1 week ago |
theprogressnetwork.org | Emma Varvaloucas
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. When I say that child marriage is still legal in most American states, do you ask whether that means a minor marrying an adult, or two star-crossed 17-year-olds marrying each other? It means both, and that’s the rub.
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2 weeks ago |
theprogressnetwork.org | Emma Varvaloucas
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. That the media covers crime’s ascent but not its descent is at this point a truism. It does bring with it a real risk, however—that the bubble of public fear, once it has swelled, will never pop. Let me pop it for you now. So far, 2025 is shaping up to be the most nonviolent year in recent memory, and in some cases, on record, in the United States.
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3 weeks ago |
theprogressnetwork.org | Emma Varvaloucas
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. On Monday, Dylan Page, who with over 15 million followers runs TikTok’s second-largest news account (the British tabloid The Daily Mail runs the largest) posted a video covering the “pope effect.” Following the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost to Pope Leo XIV, conflict hotspots all over the world took some surprising steps toward peace.
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1 month ago |
theprogressnetwork.org | Emma Varvaloucas
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. About 2,000 years ago, the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus sat down to record his thoughts on a group of vices that are no less pertinent today: flattery, arrogance, greed, and slander. These musings eventually became a multi-volume set of at least ten books together referred to as On Vices.
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1 month ago |
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.@robertwrighter always has sober-minded, insightful things to say, and this episode was no exception. Also highly recommend his "Don't Freak Out" election video, especially since there's so much to freak out about at the moment.

I had a great chat with my friends @heyemmavarv and @zacharykarabell on their podcast, What Could Go Right? It's fun being the guest every once in a while, rather than the host! https://t.co/Niqbu65WQ1

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