
Good Society stories
this week.
Positive news about how we live together: communities, rights, fairness and people finding better ways to share the world.



Greetings from Mexico City, where a bullfighting ban doesn't stop this matador training


Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story


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Joni Mitchell becomes US citizen: ‘A journey that began 62 years ago’


'I'd talk to the TV': The paid companions bringing warmth to China's lonely



She was a global star: Teen bikes 700 miles carrying injured dad. Where is she now?



ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law

‘I can breathe again’. Readers share their experiences of a more balanced media diet


Sydney trader sacked for working from Singapore without permission wins unfair dismissal case





Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia
About positive society news
This is where stories about people and the systems we share end up: civic life, social progress, human rights and research on how we treat one another. Some are small local wins; others are milestones years in the making.
Society news is often heavy, so fewer stories here clear the default positivity threshold than in most topics. Lower the spectrum if you’d like to see more of the full picture.
Over the last month, most society stories here came from BBC World News, The Guardian World and Psychology Today.
Hopeflo checks its sources every hour and scores each story from 0 (heavy) to 100 (uplifting) with AI. By default you see stories that score 40 or more; the spectrum at the top of the page changes that. How Hopeflo works
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