Future Perfect Archive
Archives for July 2020
The city could have crushed the coronavirus. Then Trump got in the way.
Here’s how this next round of checks would work.
A conversation about Black liberation theology, existentialism, and other philosophies that can help us through these times.
Fever, Covid toes, and a loss of taste: Why are Covid-19 symptoms so weird and varied?
Vaccine refusal was growing before the pandemic. Then came Covid-19.
The favorite fast food joint of herbivores is making some changes, but they’re not necessarily bad.
A conversation about solidarity and revolt in Camus’s famous novel.
Mayors of Atlanta, Los Angeles, Stockton, and other cities want a federal cash program to support their residents in need.
Florida’s governor took a victory lap on the coronavirus. Now his state has the most cases in the US.
It’s true the evidence for masks was weak before. That’s changed.
Muslim mystics believed suffering and solitude can make us better people.
Vaccinations and screenings for measles, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases are down in the pandemic.
Getting to net-zero carbon emissions will require rapid, radical innovation, a new report says.
California took early action against the coronavirus pandemic. Now things have taken a turn for the worse.
The US never fixed the core causes of its testing problem. So it’s now seeing the same kinds of issues pop up again.