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 focusing only on what’s broken blinds us to what’s fixable.
This doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing.
A growing number of thinkers say factory farming can help save the planet. Are they right?
We were promised flying cars. We got Instagram brain rot.
When curing disease is bad for the federal budget.
The cutting-edge of neurotech can read your mind. Sort of.
Why this obscure survey has life-or-death stakes, and what its future could look like.
Eighty years after Hiroshima, the idea that nuclear war can be controlled is making a comeback.
Global fur production has collapsed. Here’s how it happened.
The US decimated foreign aid budgets. These nations are doubling theirs.
Natural disasters may cost more money, but they claim far fewer lives than in decades past.
What journalism can change — and what it can’t.
Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.
The Jeffrey Epstein story has swallowed the country whole.
What chimp research can teach us about AI’s ability to “scheme.“
What won’t Trump blame on California?
The chaos of Trump’s global health cuts make the human toll near-impossible to calculate. That’s by design.
The commonsense, zero-cost fix that Congress wouldn’t touch.
Medical devices in the brain are already making a difference for countless patients.
You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?
Two forces are reshaping the same future.
The obscure chip policy that could reshape US-China competition.
The end of mandatory shoe removal signals progress on airport security.
Musk trained Grok to be right wing. We’re lucky he wasn’t more subtle.
Switzerland’s new experiment will treat meat-packaging like cigarette warnings.
AI could make bioweapons more dangerous. It could also be the key to stopping them.
When the world is on fire, meditation feels selfish. But it can help you do good better.
The cardiac miracles that have saved millions of American lives.
The strongest defense can be summed up in just two words.
It’s okay to hate AI’s encroachment into work. Learn to use it anyway.
A bill that will give China the lead in the race for advanced AI.
This new telescope lets you hold 10 million galaxies in your hand.
The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.
Despite all the problems with meat, Americans are only eating more and more of it. Could this change people’s minds?
How to not torture ChatGPT and Claude’s successors.
For people with OCD, reassurance can be harmful. ChatGPT provides an infinite supply.
Are gadgets like Apple Watches and Oura Rings making us any healthier?
To save the humanities, we need to rethink our assumptions about AI — and education.
The problem with pancreata.
A completely necessary climate villain.