
Bryan Walsh
Senior Editorial Director, Future Perfect, Climate, Unexplainable and The Gray Area
Latest articles by Bryan Walsh


A new analysis on Covid-19 origins has promise, but only the Chinese government can end the debate.

The pandemic took young people’s present. What will it do to their future?

The progressive case for population growth.


Why the world’s most populous country (for now) is experiencing population decline.



Will Biden and Trump remain the frontrunners? Will Putin remain in charge of Russia? Will China start a war? These and other forecasts of the year to come.

Plus a couple that are halfway in between.

SBF and EA, animal welfare and economic growth, and why we’re running short of people.

Earth’s population passed 8 billion this month — now what? Plus: the rise of an anti-vaccine America, the looming dangers of superintelligent AI, the shifting landscape of higher ed, and more.


Why a Soviet submarine officer might be “the most important person in modern history.”