Future Perfect
Finding the best ways to do good. Check out our 2025 Future Perfect 25 list, which presents 25 changemakers who are innovating and implementing ways to keep making progress on global health and development.
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I want to fight rising authoritarianism. But I’m scared of becoming a target.
It’s the 21st century — instant bank transfers should be the norm everywhere.
Science depends on animal testing. But the work comes at a steep, hidden cost.
The lack of romantic partnerships is an underrated factor causing fertility decline, says researcher Alice Evans.
The bipartisan case for abundance, briefly explained.
The battle over artificial intelligence is just beginning.
Our Covid mistakes did lasting damage. No one wants to talk about it.
What the beef industry knew about its environmental impact — and how it spent decades blocking climate action.
Remember when elites cared about the rest of the world?
The author John Green on how Trump cuts to aid will kill TB patients — and what we can do about it.
The Trump administration appears to be giving Starlink, a division of SpaceX, preferential treatment.
The hidden cost of animal-based beauty trends.
Academia runs on underpaid, overworked PhD students. It doesn’t have to.
From HIV to malnutrition, here’s what the loss of 83 percent of USAID programs looks like.
From mRNA vaccines to remote work, the technologies that blunted the worst of the pandemic.
The president took away life-saving aid. You can give some of it back.
But can the rest of us trust it?
Remote work has surged. Is it about to all be automated away?
For years, dairy milk was plummeting. The vibe shift — and America’s protein obsession — is bringing it back.
Digital dependence is reshaping our brains. But we can fight it.
The delicious, the decent, and the downright awful plant-based egg substitutes, explained.
How a new asteroid showed Earth’s planetary defense system at work.
All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
The Project 2025 plan called to end “housing-first” policies.
America’s egg industry is starting to address one of its worst problems.
They’re a step in the right direction.
Factory farming’s political and cultural influence, and its sweeping impacts on American life, explained.
Beef is tied to my cultural identity through its complicated history. Could the daughter of a cattle rancher ever let it go?
Relentless negativity won’t build a better world.
The pharmaceutical industry helped build factory farming. Now it’s muddying the debate over meat’s carbon footprint.
X wanted Grok to tell it straight. They didn’t like the result.
The neglected ways climate change is affecting our health, explained by Valley fever.
No, they aren’t a scam.
Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?
Spare bedrooms are America’s next housing market.
I feel intense guilt after getting angry. And if I shrug off that guilt, I worry I’ll become a bad person.
It’s a vital moment for AI policy. DOGE’s mass firings could trash vital expertise.
The best answer — AI has “jagged intelligence” — lies in between hype and skepticism.
Investing in AI safety could help ward off a big threat to humanity.