Future Perfect Archive
Archives for November 2020
Toby Ord started the Giving What We Can pledge, and you can join in too!
Pfizer and Moderna have discovered effective vaccines, but some of us will get the shot before others.
Every energy reduction we can make is a gift to future humans, and all life on Earth.
Coronavirus is surging in the US, and the holidays stand to make it worse.
America’s coronavirus epidemic is already bad. The holidays could make it worse.
A new study shows that moving to a plant-based diet is critical, but governments have been slow to act.
Biden’s agriculture secretary could confront factory farms, or coddle them.
Elon Musk’s private space company has now successfully launched two crewed flights into orbital space.
The US is losing the fight against Covid-19. The only way to win quickly is closing down.
The world’s richest person makes his move.
From Denmark to the US, outbreaks on mink farms raise concerns that a virus mutation could make our vaccines ineffective.
A study of 150 interventions in developing countries finds that many education programs don’t work. Here are the ones that do.
The executive branch is not yet equipped to respond to climate change. Here’s how it can change that.
Oregon’s voters have forced significant reforms to end the war on drugs.
Here’s why the coronavirus outbreaks in the Dakotas got so bad.