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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We buy stuff. We throw it away. There’s a system to stop this toxic cycle.
Introducing Your Mileage May Vary, an unconventional new advice column.
ChatGPT didn’t write this and I can prove it.
From granola bars to chips, more studies are revealing that UPFs are tied to diseases like cancer and depression.
We don’t need to pit dogs against humans.
Too much fluoride might lower IQ in kids, a new federal report says. The science (and debate), explained.
EVs help reduce greenhouse emissions. But too many used gas-guzzlers could make that impossible.
The US military’s recruiting crisis, explained.
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
Are tech companies actually pushing AI down our throats?
California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
Some tech leaders think SB 1047 will kill innovation. It won’t.
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
Scientific fraud kills people. Should it be illegal?
An early warning system could help fix the dangerous information gap between Big Tech and the US.
My generation was taught to change the system. That lesson came at a cost.
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”
However current companies do financially, the big AI safety challenges remain.
But there might be global consequences.
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
While better data is needed to understand just how wide the gap is, help doesn’t have to wait.
The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.
The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy, lengthening an already decades-long journey to medicalize the psychedelic.
The end of psychedelic prohibition will have to wait a little while longer.
Your morality isn’t as stable as you might think.
Being an only child doesn’t mess you up for life. We promise.
Ovaries age faster than the rest of the body. Figuring out how to slow menopause might help all of us age better.
A short history of effective animal advocacy.
The meat industry took away your food options and made activists the enemy. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The plant-based protein movement goes to Washington.
The nonprofit is a punchline. It’s also forced the world to face factory farming, animal cruelty, and our own hypocrisy.
People of color are more likely to be vegan. But the animal rights movement still has a white face.
Vegans are the dissenters in society’s war on animals.
The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.