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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Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.
Here’s what Trump gets right — and wrong — about the WHO.
OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit is sketchy. Musk’s $97 billion offer shows why.
The more agency we give AI assistants, the scarier they get.
Just ignore the godawful reading of Christianity he used to get there.
All of us will be collateral damage in MAGA’s war on “DEI.”
Exclusive: California has a new plan to put chatbots in their place.
But communities of color face the worst ammonia pollution on the ground, a new study reveals.
The accidental origins of the chicken on your plate, explained.
Making people poorer is still bad — regardless of party.
How Big Meat silences its critics.
Nasal vaccines are more effective and easier to get to the people who need it most.
America is finally seeing fewer drug shortages. But Trump’s tariffs could reverse that progress.
Nuclear guardrails are falling apart — and Donald Trump is about to retake the launch codes.
Tens of thousands of people will die if Trump’s war on USAID continues.
What the hot new Chinese AI product means — and what it doesn’t.
Sowing doubt about vaccines has earned him millions — and could keep paying out.
USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies, agency employees tell Vox.
The DeepSeek saga that’s transforming AI, explained
Are we really 89 seconds away from annihilation?
Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.
Trump wants to “unleash American energy.” What does that mean?
And four other burning bird flu questions, answered.
The company’s Stargate project will create lots of opportunities. But not for humans.
A sickening stench and hordes of flies: What it’s like to live near a mega factory farm.
The Los Angeles wildfires show the influence of humanity in the world — and our inability to control it.
The global fight against HIV is at a perilous tipping point.
My extreme self-sacrifice is making me resent my friends who fly all the time.
We have two vaccines now. What’s the hold up?
The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.
The administration’s biggest achievement is something that almost no one has heard about.
Will the state’s fire mismanagement finally force Californians to demand better?
Here’s how to decide where to donate your money, time, and stuff.
The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.
How to help — and how not to — in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Cuts to science spending may save lab animals — at a cost.
The science behind why we think the past was better than the present.
US climate policy has led to a surge in manure-based “biogas.” Critics say it’s propping up factory farming.
So what happened to that wall AI was supposed to hit?
Los Angeles is home to a diverse ecosystem of animals. Now their lives and homes are at risk.