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Masked chambermaids, sanitized keycards and nurses who pop in to see how you’re feeling.

Benches that become stoves and manholes hiding emergency toilets reflect the survival instincts of a country that has learned to live with peril.

In this week’s briefing: Kiwis crush the curve, a Brazilian school exceeds all expectations and transit projects leverage car-free streets to hurry forward.

In this week’s news briefing: social media data is tracking COVID-19 and schools begin to open with anti-viral measures in place.

American bartenders get a lifeline, French perfumers churn out hand sanitizer, Britain grows a volunteer army and locked-down Chinese students find classmates in Israel.

Taiwan has built a pragmatic, solutions-oriented society where democracy is expected to deliver results. Amid the pandemic, it’s paying off.

If the press can learn from the mistakes it made during the Ebola outbreak, it could become one of our best assets in fighting the current pandemic.

Chinampas — an ingenious adaptation to the Valley of Mexico’s lake-filled landscape — could hold lessons for cities around the world.

An online platform transformed aid efforts in rural Morocco, where remote communities are tucked deep in the mountains.

A concept that spread to meet an urgent need amid the pandemic remains a low-key yet efficient way to feed people and prevent food waste.

Covid transformed cities, jobs, even entertainment in ways that seem to be ever more permanent — and in some cases, made the world a better place.

From hotlines to home visits, these organizations offer a helping hand when overwhelmed parents need it most.

Once a staple of communal dining, food trays are disappearing — along with a harmful human impulse.

New technology is intervening in the moments where speed matters more than anything. Welcome to the future of emergency medicine.

How a science that now saves countless lives started with dairymaids who never got smallpox.

As the world’s biggest climate conference comes to a close, we see reasons for hope on the horizon.

“The gentle art,” which involves no punching or kicking, teaches how to restrain one’s opponent without injuring them.

High vaccination rates, broad health coverage and bipartisan cooperation protected a city that initially looked vulnerable.

Legal systems around the world are beginning to confront an existential question: What rights does an animal have?

When vendors in Queens started self-governing during Covid, the city got a glimpse of how public spaces can truly flourish.

With elections approaching, the stakes are high. One organization is making sure journalists listen to women.

A locally owned startup’s devices are powering hundreds of homes and over a dozen schools.

For nearly a decade, a German contest has given hundreds of people 12 months of no-strings cash to see how it might change their lives.

A program pioneered in the little city of Eugene is improving policing in Harlem.

A digitization project will ensure that a series of 20th century guides for LGBTQ travelers aren’t lost to history.

“When a woman places an ‘order’ and gives us her address, that’s the signal for us to send the police.”

When an affluent California city erected temporary shelters in a public parking lot, angry residents revolted — and then they got involved.

Most experiments with four-day weeks have been motivated by corporate self-interest. That could be changing.

Where isolation is an official policy, alleviating it is becoming one, too.

A full-service facility run by the people who need it offers hot water, laundry, medical care — and legitimization.

From veterinarian vaccinators to pop-up sites at mosques, here are some of the methods making the vaccine campaign more effective and equitable.

For those who don’t have the time or computer savvy to scour the internet, a volunteer movement is emerging.

A groundbreaking new rule aims to let people speak freely and without fear of discrimination.

Elaborate, over-programmed playgrounds increasingly dictate how kids should use them. Can a new type of playscape unwrite the script?

As the lockdowns began one year ago, Lenore Estrada discovered a customer base that would save dozens of businesses like hers.

Meet the marine geographer teaching Chennai urbanites how to buy seafood the traditional way.

The English National Opera has partnered with a hospital to turn lung recovery exercises into song.

How the Seahawks finished the season as the only team in the league without a single infection.

A no-waste, no-cost solution — endorsed by everyone from hunters to PETA — is finally going mainstream.

Defying harsh weather and roadless terrain, America’s most undeveloped state has achieved one of the country’s highest vaccination rates.

112 bits of good news that kept us sane in 2020.

The pandemic has finally busted the outdated myth that so-called developing countries are less resilient than their wealthier peers.

Large dairy farms started dumping their milk during Covid — until smaller ones swooped in to turn it into food for the hungry.

Nimble, culturally nuanced and collaborative, this Māori-led response gets to the roots of family violence.

Defining access to food as a human right, a city in Brazil is making sure everyone can afford a trip to the market.

As the pandemic makes supermarkets a no-go zone for some, cities are writing prescriptions for free fruits and vegetables, delivered right to residents’ doors.

“Trans-competent” health care services — often staffed with trans doctors and nurses — are enhancing a medical system that has been slow to change its ways.

A Depression-era form of relief is helping residents of Tenino, Washington through the crisis.

The city is pinpointing residents who are on the verge of losing their homes and getting them help before it happens.

In the city’s Mission District, renters are collectively buying their buildings before they get priced out.

The African nation’s Premier League football club will become the first in the world to fund its men’s and women’s teams equally.

Some universities are offering college credits as industry-recognized certificates instead, allowing students to use them in the job market long before they graduate.

Embracing uncertainty may be the survival tactic that gets us through this.

Populated by seasonal laborers, Oregon’s Willamette Valley could have been devastated by the coronavirus. Instead, it’s become a model for how to keep workers safe.

Intergenerational homesharing has taken off. The pandemic has complicated the calculus, but some say it’s more vital than ever.

“When folks say, ‘I cannot believe a trans person could win in a place like West Virginia,’ I think, ‘This is the very place I believe a trans person could win elected office.”

In North Carolina, teens who were once at risk of being locked up have created a place where good things grow.

In an effort to make its prisons more than punitive, Washington D.C. has begun offering cognitive behavioral therapy to incarcerated individuals.

The remnants of a destructive form of mining have inadvertently helped the elk return to coal country for the first time since the Civil War.

A food hub known as the Redd solves the business and logistical challenges of local food — and helps small farmers become a big deal.

At a police-free zone in Seattle, “sentinels” are keeping the peace in peaceful fashion.

The data proves that regulating police behavior results in fewer killings of civilians.

Shelters and hotel rooms are expensive and temporary. Are tiny houses a homelessness solution that can outlast the crisis?

As awareness about their ecological importance grows, a movement to grant insects the same protections as more majestic creatures is gaining steam.

After we featured a list of places beating the coronavirus, many of you wrote in with your own countries’ success stories. Here are five you said we shouldn’t miss.

Money from friends and family is what helps many startups survive during tough times. One organization is playing that role for black entrepreneurs.

Some advocates, seeing violence as an epidemic, are starting to treat it like one.

Co-Op City was built as a grand experiment in social-justice housing. Fifty years later, its civic values are paying off.

When correctly designed, housing that gives people personal space can make them feel closer.

While success stories like Germany and South Korea are rightly hailed, some of the most effective responses are in countries that haven’t been making the news.

How one country is using its economic rescue to clean up a polluting industry.

A heroic effort is underway to record the global lockdown’s ripple effects — before they disappear.

As Europe’s biggest economy reboots, it — and many others — are planning to transition away from fossil fuels.

With the fewest infections of any state, Alaska proves contact tracing can work — even in America.

Hundreds of cities have handed over their streets to pedestrians and cyclists during the pandemic. Some of them plan to keep it that way.

In this week’s briefing: Reviving a woodland refuge for honeybees and partnering with poachers to bring back buffalo to a national park.

Covid-19 is showing us what ending mass incarceration could look like. Some judges and prosecutors like what they see.

In a new series, we explore how the Covid-19 pandemic is making changes once dismissed as pipe dreams happen seemingly overnight.

In this week’s briefing: building bridges to assist wildlife on their journeys, Italy gets homeschooled and a debate over the merits of poop-powered energy.

How a conservative, oil-pumping state became one of the world’s biggest generators of wind power.

In this week’s news briefing: renewable energy has an undisputed leader, and anti-violence outreach workers help their at-risk clients shelter in place.

As farms and restaurants close, organizers are mobilizing to make sure the food left behind gets to where it’s needed most.

Americans may find themselves following the state’s stay-at-home playbook in this year’s presidential election.

As fake meat floods the market, some fast-food joints are insisting that their ultra-sustainably raised beef is better for the planet.

A profit-making enterprise with a mandate to serve the people, the city’s transit system is uniquely designed to weather a crisis.

In this week’s news briefing: Governments help companies pay their workers, France uses its bullet train for high-speed triage and Indigenous graduation rates soar.

The pandemic is revealing the many ways our lives intersect. Is this an opportunity for us to reimagine what we can be?

As people’s homes become bulwarks against the pandemic, funding for health care is being spent on housing. Maybe they were the same thing all along.

The coronavirus is creating an explosion of quarantined online performance that is unscripted, unshowered and surprisingly uplifting.

In this week’s news briefing: the strafed summits of Kentucky find a grizzled savior and an underground turbine keeps the lights on in Halifax.