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 current AI usage data might mislead us about the future.
How to prevent one hour of animal suffering for just one penny.
How rational is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s prophecy?
Climate change is rewriting America’s map of disease — through bug bites.
While the rest of the country turned a blind eye to ancient disease threats, these scientists leaned in.
The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.
A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.
The paradox of moral perfectionism — and how to escape it.
How MAHA gets American history wrong.
Raising the retirement age does more to hurt poorer people who live less long.
If we can help these creatures flourish in NYC, we can help them anywhere.
Killing two people is worse than killing one. What about 440 billion crustaceans?
270 million kids won’t be in class this fall. Why?
Emergency response’s newfound sluggishness, explained by earthquakes and landslides.
This small Texas city is leading the country’s response.
There are more than 200 mosquito species in the country — but just a few to worry about.
The US eradicated screwworm. Its return could cost America billions.
Few countries better exemplify how life has actually improved.
Everyone underestimated AI progress. Now what?
The hidden reasons behind America’s organ donation crisis.
The misleading government statistic that distorts food and farming policy, explained.
China’s engineers vs. America’s lawyers.
A very Future Perfect newsletter mailbag.
From picking a career to picking a spouse, one radical philosophical idea will guide you.
The metaverse didn’t stick. Can “superintelligence”?
Here’s how this African country is winning the fight against childhood HIV.
AI in the classroom doesn’t have to be a catastrophe.
The dark side of Fairlife — and America’s protein craze.
What new research on guaranteed income means — and doesn’t.
Dairy farms are among the most dangerous workplaces. Why aren’t they regulated like it?
Trump’s new fee will make the USAID cuts look like a rounding error in some countries.
Cash transfers can save lives. Just not very cost-effectively.
The wonky math of “meat offsets,” explained.
Science says that even moderate drinking is bad for you — and Americans are listening.
This deal has everything: Semiconductors, DeepSeek, constitutional violations.
A century-old optical illusion launched a space race.
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are placing big, divergent bets on the future of meat. Who will win?
AI will undoubtedly shape the next 25 years. We just don’t know how yet.
Nostalgia is lying to you about how good things were.
AI wrote a sacred text for Buddhists — and it exceeded expectations. Can it write a good Bible?