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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Despite being reviled by just about everyone.
And other practical meditation questions, answered.
Want to learn how to meditate? Scientists have a new theory that might change how you practice.
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
I tried to make the perfect moral choice every time. It eroded my humanity.
Why we won’t cause a mirror bacteria apocalypse — thanks to science.
From tariffs and a Trump/Elon break-up to artificial general intelligence, here’s what could happen in 2025, according to the Future Perfect team.
The 24 forecasts we made in 2024, revisited.
From strip mall conversions to adult dorms, here are our favorites from this year.
Without enough houses for its growing homeless population, the city is using machine learning to make its process fairer.
An intervention to reduce child mortality may accelerate drug resistance.
It wasn’t the easiest year, but 2024 was not without its bright spots.
Why young people are getting cancer, problems with OpenAI, and the little intelligence agency that could.
She’s an expert in funny, but her relationship with rabbits is very serious.
Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and wildly misleading. The problem goes deeper.
How being a doctor in America compares to other countries.
Thousands of people were convinced they were seeing drone swarms. Get used to it.
The Taiwan invasion everyone fears might never happen. Here’s what could take place instead.
You don’t have to shy away from argument and persuasion. Here’s how to do it right.
The stories that will endure from a wild year.
The New York Times painted a misleading picture. Less than 0.2 percent of US charity is ruthlessly optimized.
Everybody loves MAHA — because nobody knows what it really is.
DMT, “the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic family,” explained.
These reforms are a big win for advocates, but what happens next will be crucial for animals’ rights.
Why Brian Thompson’s death has provoked such complicated reactions from the public.
The industry’s blame game will not end the US national health care nightmare.
Maybe — but it matters much less than you think.
Chicken giants are pushing birds to their biological limits. A staggering number die but never make it to consumers’ plates.
It’s not cocaine, but it can be just about anything else — except a good idea.
When you were born is actually an important risk factor for cancer.
What 3 new books reveal about where the housing movement goes next.
We need new malaria drugs — so I spent a year as a guinea pig.
We can invest in men’s well-being without undermining women.
If you want to do good this Giving Tuesday, it’s probably a good idea to donate regularly.
Solar is surging, but so is humanity’s energy appetite. We need better models.
The treatment of animals in the real world is far stranger — and crueler — than in Wicked.
Xenotransplantation raises major moral questions — and not just about the pigs.
America, before and after vaccines.
Optimism, not despair, is the way to inspire kids to help the future.
Neuroscience is revealing a fascinating link between gratitude and generosity.