RotWR - Good News Sunday, May 17

The Rest of the World Podcast · May 17, 2026 · 5m

GOOD NEWS SUNDAY IS LIVE

After the week that was — Beijing, BRICS, Cooper, the Knesset, all of it — here are five things that went right anyway.

① In March, renewables beat natural gas as America's leading source of electricity for the first time in history. The grid doesn't care who's in the White House.

② A man's grandmother had love and nowhere to put it. So he built her a stand on the sidewalk where strangers could sit down and talk. People came back. They brought friends.

③ In rural Zimbabwe, community health workers are riding bicycles from home to home to deliver HPV vaccines to girls…