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Future Perfect Archive

Archives for August 2024

Vox’s guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 policies
Trump’s campaign against public health is back onTrump’s campaign against public health is back on
Vox’s guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 policies

The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.

By Dylan Scott
Today, Explained podcast
MDMA’s 40-year fight for medical approval continuesMDMA’s 40-year fight for medical approval continues
Podcast
Today, Explained podcast

The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy, lengthening an already decades-long journey to medicalize the psychedelic.

By Haleema Shah
Future Perfect
MDMA therapy didn’t get FDA approval. Now what?MDMA therapy didn’t get FDA approval. Now what?
Future Perfect

The end of psychedelic prohibition will have to wait a little while longer.

By Oshan Jarow
Future Perfect
How the seasons screw with your moral compassHow the seasons screw with your moral compass
Future Perfect

Your morality isn’t as stable as you might think.

By Sigal Samuel
The only child stigma, debunked
Parenting

Being an only child doesn’t mess you up for life. We promise.

By Charley Locke
Future Perfect
We have a drug that might delay menopause — and help us live longerWe have a drug that might delay menopause — and help us live longer
Future Perfect

Ovaries age faster than the rest of the body. Figuring out how to slow menopause might help all of us age better.

By Celia Ford
Future Perfect
The animal rights movement was once locked in bitter debate. Now it’s getting things done.The animal rights movement was once locked in bitter debate. Now it’s getting things done.
Future Perfect

A short history of effective animal advocacy.

By Kelsey Piper
19th-century animal rights activists had a lot of moxie. Here’s how to get it back.
Future Perfect

The meat industry took away your food options and made activists the enemy. It doesn’t have to be that way.

By Crystal Heath
American government built the meat industry. Now can it build a better food system?
Future Perfect

The plant-based protein movement goes to Washington.

By Kenny Torrella
You’re wrong about PETA
Future Perfect

The nonprofit is a punchline. It’s also forced the world to face factory farming, animal cruelty, and our own hypocrisy.

By Jan Dutkiewicz
I’m a Black vegan. Why don’t you see more of us?
Future Perfect

People of color are more likely to be vegan. But the animal rights movement still has a white face.

By Noella Williams
Vegans are radical. That’s why we need them.
Future Perfect

Vegans are the dissenters in society’s war on animals.

By Jishnu Guha-Majumdar
How Factory Farming Ends
Future Perfect

The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?

By Marina Bolotnikova
Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
Future Perfect

The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.

By Marina Bolotnikova
If the left is serious about saving democracy, there’s one more cause to add to the list
Future Perfect

Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.

By Astra Taylor and Sunaura Taylor