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Kelsey Piper

Kelsey Piper

Contributing editor

    Latest articles by Kelsey Piper

    Future Perfect
    Why popularism is good — to a pointWhy popularism is good — to a point
    Future Perfect

    Weird ideas don’t win elections, but that doesn’t mean people should shut up about them.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Future Perfect
    What the media needs to get right in the next pandemicWhat the media needs to get right in the next pandemic
    Future Perfect

    Journalists struggled to accurately convey scientific uncertainty on Covid-19.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic — and what we can do to stop it
    Science

    As biology gets better, biosecurity gets harder. Here’s what the world can do to prepare.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Future Perfect
    When scientific information is dangerousWhen scientific information is dangerous
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    A new study shows the risks that can come from research into AI and biology.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Culture
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    Culture

    Before he became an international symbol, he played a common man whose outrage over corruption elevated him to high office.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Future Perfect
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    Where to donate if you want to assist refugees and people in Ukraine.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Future Perfect
    To make progress, we need to study itTo make progress, we need to study it
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    The progress studies movement asks a big question — and warns against taking the future for granted.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Future Perfect
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    Future Perfect

    Our approach to pandemic response can’t react fast enough for a Covid-19 variant like omicron. That should scare us.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Future Perfect
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    When Don’t Look Up stops trying to be funny, it has something deeply important to say.

    By Kelsey Piper
    Future Perfect
    22 things we think will happen in 202222 things we think will happen in 2022
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    Forecasting what’s shaping up to be another bumpy year.

    By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper and 1 more