Future Perfect Archive
Archives for May 2019


It’s a subtle but important change.


Cages smaller than a sheet of paper are out. Perches and dust baths are in.


In the 1950s, more than 20 million children died each year. We’ve since cut that figure by two-thirds.


It’s the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms.


Here’s how many animals Rachael Ray, Paula Deen, Mario Batali, and others would have you kill.


Warren’s plan is the most ambitious attempt to tackle the opioid crisis, experts and advocates say.
And the internet detectives working to find them.


It will likely take millions of years for the Earth to recover from the biodiversity crisis.


By 2050, 10 million people could die each year from diseases that have grown resistant to drugs.


Billionaire do-gooders get a lot of flak. In his new book, Raj Kumar argues that they’ve helped change global health work for the better.


Booker wants to require a license to buy and own a gun in the US — going further on guns than any other Democrat in the 2020 race.


A new study links 13 Reasons Why to a major spike in the youth suicide rate. Experts say that link is complicated, though.


Boosting people’s incomes to help boost their health outcomes — could this model work in the US?


You can now buy a stake in vegan meat.

The American Family Act, one of Democrats’ biggest policy initiatives of 2019, explained.