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 decline of burglary and robbery, explained.
The surprising impact of better-designed public housing.
An exclusive investigation uncovers the hidden suffering behind the pet bird industry.
Washington’s obsession with dairy didn’t start with RFK Jr.
Apartments are safer and more affordable than single-family homes. Why do we treat them like a hazard?
AI agents populated their own social network. Then they started a religion.
When “pro-life” foreign aid hurts women and children the most.
What Minnesota’s immigrant communities need from you now.
The Doomsday Clock is keeping time for a world that no longer exists.
Anthropic’s philosopher, Amanda Askell, reveals what went into the chatbot’s moral education.
All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.
It’s been more than eight years since the last nuclear explosion. How long will the pause last?
This undersung service saves Americans $3.1 billion every year. Why aren’t we funding them more?
What if researchers didn’t have to start from scratch every time?
Ugliness has more to do with the housing crisis than you think.
How public opinion on crowdfunding soured, explained in one chart.
The high seas used to be the wild west of the ocean, but a new treaty could finally bring oversight.
Satellites are our only insight into the ongoing conflict — and worth protecting.
The AI coworker is making tech people lose their minds. Here’s what it actually is.
Here’s what ChatGPT Health can actually tell you — and what it can’t.
A system built to stop government from doing harm stopped it from doing anything.
Grok’s sexualized imagery is entirely predictable — and preventable.
It’s also a contradictory mess.
Trump’s “strike force” against animal abuse, and the conservative movement’s turn toward animal welfare, explained.
New York City’s congestion pricing experiment, explained in one chart.
Fighting hunger can feel impossible. But thanks to new innovations, it’s actually never been cheaper.
The ability to actually change your life is a very modern kind of progress. Here how to make it real in 2026.
Why we should aspire to eat less meat like it’s 2019.
From the state of democracy to the chance of a recession, here’s what could happen in 2026.
The 25 forecasts we made in 2025, revisited.
Giving away your money can feel great, if you do it right.
Five strangers who risked everything to save someone else.
How politics, not parasites, became the biggest threat in the fight against malaria
De-extinction, drinking, and a whole new thing that could end the world.
The US has had a bad track record of building nuclear on time and on budget. But that could change.
The global debt crisis works like your credit card — but much, much worse.
From a CRISPR baby to a closing ozone hole, 5 actually good things from 2025.
It wasn’t all bad in 2025.
Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life.
Less than Americans’ holiday shopping, actually.