Future Perfect Archive
Archives for December 2018


PEPFAR, America’s hugely effective anti-AIDS program, is getting extended.


Suicides drove an increase in gun deaths from 2016 to 2017.


Congress may pass actual criminal justice reform — and Trump supports it.


At least four potential 2020 candidates are on board.


Promising programs often fall apart when we try to offer them to more people. Here’s why.


This is the latest in a long string of successful corporate campaigns.


As attorney general for George H.W. Bush, Barr was an architect of America’s punitive criminal justice system.


The most important international summit you haven’t heard of, explained.


The latest proposal won’t stop the steady decline of the coal industry.


Less extreme poverty, reductions in child mortality, and other promising trends.


Why we need to take the threat of bioengineered superbugs seriously.


The review also found the evidence for safe injection sites to be much weaker.


New Mexicans like me are weighing our future in a fast-drying climate.


Bari Weiss and Eve Peyser want us to learn from their unlikely friendship. I’m not sure there’s much to learn.


No longer able to win through fraud, politicians apparently started spending on health care.