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


The decline of burglary and robbery, explained.


AI agents populated their own social network. Then they started a religion.


The Doomsday Clock is keeping time for a world that no longer exists.


The high seas used to be the wild west of the ocean, but a new treaty could finally bring oversight.


The AI coworker is making tech people lose their minds. Here’s what it actually is.


The ability to actually change your life is a very modern kind of progress. Here how to make it real in 2026.

From the state of democracy to the chance of a recession, here’s what could happen in 2026.

The 25 forecasts we made in 2025, revisited.


Five strangers who risked everything to save someone else.


How politics, not parasites, became the biggest threat in the fight against malaria