Future Perfect Archive
Archives for August 2020
A new testing strategy prioritizes infectiousness instead of infections.
It’s never been easier to get your hands on fake meat that actually tastes a lot like the real thing.
But the overall fight against polio looks as tough as ever — and Covid-19 is making it worse.
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the government will give some citizens free money.
Trump and the RNC tried to put a positive spin on his record. But the facts are clear.
$60 billion hangs in the balance.
The formula predicted rich kids would do better than poor kids who’d earned the same grades in class.
“If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms.”
America’s coronavirus epidemic is simply much worse than New Zealand’s — and other developed nations’.
A conversation with historian Peniel Joseph.
Humans have engineered the perfect environment for deadly new germs.
To save the world, plant-based meat needs to be cheaper.
A new proposal for how carbon taxes can play well with other policies.
Understanding the key concepts of transmissibility and infectious dose should reassure you.
What the 20th century’s most influential economist can teach us about rebuilding the US economy.