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Future Perfect Archive

Archives for September 2020

Future Perfect podcast
Growing chicken is big business. So why are many farmers forced into debt they can’t pay off?Growing chicken is big business. So why are many farmers forced into debt they can’t pay off?
Podcast
Future Perfect podcast

A “recovering poultry grower” explains why he gave up factory farming.

By Byrd Pinkerton, Sigal Samuel and 1 more
Future Perfect
Extreme poverty is getting worse across the globe for the first time in decadesExtreme poverty is getting worse across the globe for the first time in decades
Future Perfect

Covid-19 is projected to leave millions more people trying to live on less than $1.90/day.

By Kelsey Piper
What Biden can do to fix Trump’s Covid-19 mess
A Biden presidency

Covid-19 will be Biden’s first big challenge if he wins. Here’s what experts say he should do.

By German Lopez
Explainers
Concentration camps and forced labor: China’s repression of the Uighurs, explainedConcentration camps and forced labor: China’s repression of the Uighurs, explained
Explainers

There is more and more evidence of China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

By Jen Kirby
Why we’re still years away from having self-driving cars
Technology

Self-driving cars were expected to roll out by 2021. Here’s what we need to solve and build first.

By Eric Adams
Climate
On climate change, oil and gas companies have a long way to goOn climate change, oil and gas companies have a long way to go
Climate

A new report finds that all the new industry commitments don’t add up.

By David Roberts
Future Perfect
The case for more — many more — AmericansThe case for more — many more — Americans
Future Perfect

A conversation with Matthew Yglesias on families, the economy, global competition, and One Billion Americans.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant painFarms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
Future Perfect

Why humanely raising animals is more complicated than just a good living environment.

By Kelsey Piper
Science
Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?
Podcast
Science

There’s a paradox on our plates.

By Sigal Samuel and Byrd Pinkerton
How Trump let Covid-19 win
Future Perfect

Trump’s magical thinking couldn’t beat the coronavirus. America is stuck with the consequences.

By German Lopez
Covid-19 taught companies how to run remote offices. That could transform developing countries.
Future Perfect

Economist Richard Baldwin thinks Covid-19 could inspire a global shift to remote work.

By Dylan Matthews
Future Perfect
Why the number of people getting tested for Covid-19 dropped in the USWhy the number of people getting tested for Covid-19 dropped in the US
Future Perfect

Experts say we need more testing. America, for too long, was headed in the opposite direction.

By German Lopez
Future Perfect
CDC reverses guidelines, telling people to get tested for Covid-19 even without symptomsCDC reverses guidelines, telling people to get tested for Covid-19 even without symptoms
Future Perfect

Previous guidance changes seemed to be politically motivated to favor Trump. The CDC just walked them back.

By German Lopez
A Biden presidency
Joe Biden’s latest pandemic plan: At least $3,000 in cash to parents for every childJoe Biden’s latest pandemic plan: At least $3,000 in cash to parents for every child
A Biden presidency

And make that $3,600 per year for kids 5 and younger.

By Dylan Matthews
Future Perfect
Trump says US Covid-19 deaths would be low if you excluded blue states. That’s wrong.Trump says US Covid-19 deaths would be low if you excluded blue states. That’s wrong.
Future Perfect

If red states were a country, they’d be in the top 10 for Covid-19 deaths among developed nations.

By German Lopez