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Tracing progress and setbacks
Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation
Looking for objectively positive developments doesn’t mean ignoring areas where light is still needed. Today’s lead story advances what for many is a counternarrative: In a region known for deep rifts, an “Arab renaissance” in the Gulf states is showing how pragmatism can kindle progress. By contrast, in pockets of Central America, aid cuts have undermined efforts to shore up democracy and civil society. In our report from El Salvador, we take the measure of the damage. How, and when, might a bulwark be restored?
