Bryan Walsh
Senior Editorial Director, Future Perfect, Climate, Unexplainable and The Gray Area
Bryan Walsh is a senior editorial director at Vox overseeing the Future Perfect and climate teams, as well as the podcasts Unexplainable and The Gray Area. He is also the editor of Vox’s Future Perfect section, which covers the policies, people, and forces that could make the future a better place for everyone. He is the author of the 2019 book End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World, which is about existential risks like AI, pandemics, and nuclear war, and isn’t really all that brief.
He worked at Time magazine for 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong and Tokyo, an environment writer, and as international editor, and was the future correspondent at Axios. When not editing, he writes the weekly Good News newsletter, as well as on subjects like population trends, the best ways to achieve scientific and material progress, climate change, artificial intelligence, and, very occasionally, children’s television. He can be reached via email at bryan.walsh@vox.com and on Twitter at @bryanrwalsh.
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Latest articles by Bryan Walsh
The world’s poorest countries are paying the price for a war they didn’t start.
We have the tools to end the virus. The question is whether we’ll abandon them.
How one number explains how we’re winning the 60-year war on smoking.
Can MLB split the difference between humans and machines?
How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.
Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve thanks to overpopulation. Here’s what actually happened.
4 billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.
Why the telephone is the most important technology you’ve stopped thinking about.
AI is already a weapon of mass fraud.
Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster.