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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The battle over what OpenAI owes the public.
We discovered its cause 144 years ago. It’s still a massive problem.
After years on psychiatric drugs, some ask if they owe it to themselves to try coming off the medication.
How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.
A new theory about why human beings evolved the need to feel purpose.
Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve thanks to overpopulation. Here’s what actually happened.
4 billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.
The response to the Texas Senate candidate’s comments on animal welfare highlight the challenge of talking about meat in US politics.
What people really think about plant-based dairy.
You don’t have to give up on a profession you love and become a plumber.
Why the telephone is the most important technology you’ve stopped thinking about.
The ingredient that feeds the planet’s crops just got stuck in war.
Revealed in one chart.
Getting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach.
AI is already a weapon of mass fraud.
Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster.
How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.
RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.
How to think about long-term use, dependence, and withdrawal — according to a professional.
The very old law that might just save these beagles.
Blame...your local grocery store?
Driverless cars could save thousands of lives. They might also break our cities.
The US said we can’t afford to let a surveillance state like China win the AI race. Well...
Both parties just approved billions for lifesaving aid abroad. Will Trump actually spend it?
Your pet fish — or bird, or hamster — is probably miserable.
The most important AI story of the year (so far), explained.
Inside the unprecedented early return from the International Space Station.
The internet will do anything for baby animals — except the hard stuff.
America’s slaughterhouses could become even more dangerous for workers and animals.
William Foege helped give us a world without smallpox. We’re marking his death by letting measles come back.
Around the world, energy is becoming abundant — there’s just one problem.
A psychiatrist explains why Internal Family Systems is having a moment, despite its lack of evidence.
Cows are draining the Colorado River.
The quiet economic miracle hiding in your grocery bill.
Why so many people are obsessed with Internal Family Systems, even though its claims are dubious.
Don’t let AI steal your heart — or your money.
Yes, really.
How a small innovation lab resurrected itself.
We’re finally making progress toward a universal flu vaccine.
The line between medically necessary and elective surrogacy isn’t as tidy as people assume.