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Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh

Senior Editorial Director, Future Perfect, Climate, Unexplainable and The Gray Area

    Latest articles by Bryan Walsh

    Future Perfect
    The key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not WuhanThe key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not Wuhan
    Future Perfect

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

    By Bryan Walsh
    The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren
    The Highlight

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

    By Bryan Walsh
    Yes, you can have kids and fight climate change at the same time
    The Highlight

    The progressive case for population growth.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    How China came to regret its one-child policyHow China came to regret its one-child policy
    Future Perfect

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

    By Bryan Walsh
    Noma’s closing exposes the contradictions of fine dining
    Future Perfect

    Noma, no more.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    23 things we think will happen in 202323 things we think will happen in 2023
    Future Perfect

    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.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    22 predictions we made in 2022, and the 6 we got wrong
    Future Perfect

    Plus a couple that are halfway in between.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    The 15 most read Future Perfect stories of 2022
    Future Perfect

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

    By Bryan Walsh
    The world to come
    The Highlight

    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.

    By Bryan Walsh and Elbert Ventura
    Future Perfect
    60 years ago today, this man stopped the Cuban missile crisis from going nuclear60 years ago today, this man stopped the Cuban missile crisis from going nuclear
    Future Perfect

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

    By Bryan Walsh