On a blue-skied summer morning, Place Pasteur in the historic center of Besançon is abuzz with colorful market stalls selling trinkets and antiques. But it’s also here that residents bring a different ...

At the heart of this success story is a determined shift from a medicalized approach to one centered on community-based support.

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See what stories caught our attention this week, including NYC’s mayoral elections and a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool. See what stories caught our attention this week, ...

Juliette Fekkar is a Paris-based journalist covering climate, agriculture, energy and environmental issues. Her reporting has been featured in The Washington Post, Le Monde and France Info.

Lucas Dufalla is a reporter with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette covering the Mississippi River Basin. Before moving to Arkansas, he worked at news outlets in Maine and Pennsylvania. He is a Report for ...

Matt Hudson grew up in Great Falls, Montana, and is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism. He previously worked as a reporter for the Owatonna (Minn.) People's Press, the Daily ...

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. There’s something a ...

Milena Malanciuc clearly recalls the day she was sent to an orphanage, when she was just five. She had been playing in the park with her older cousin. On their return home, they found a large black ...

The sun was shining brightly one August morning in Möckernkiez, a minimalist housing complex beside the leafy Gleisdreieck Park in central Berlin. Inaugurated in 2018, the innovative, cooperative-run ...

Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

In the northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, Adam Bushell has saved about $10 a month in waste collection fees since his local council swapped flat fees for a “pay-as-you-throw” system four years ago ...