Kelsey Piper
Contributing editor
Latest articles by Kelsey Piper
Many of this year’s breakthroughs and lessons have the potential to make our future much brighter.
Giving the vaccine to older people first will save lives. Here’s why it was (briefly) controversial.
Chicken bites from bioreactor-grown chicken will be available for sale.
Reading Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save in the year of the plague.
The voting reform measure is meant to combat polarization and increase voter choice.
A study of 150 interventions in developing countries finds that many education programs don’t work. Here are the ones that do.
Is direct democracy delivering on its promise?
Supporters of the initiative hoped it would depolarize the state’s elections.
Ballot initiatives on ranked-choice voting, neutralizing the Electoral College, and more.
In his new book Why Vegan?, the pioneering philosopher of animal rights takes stock of the movement’s progress — and why there’s so much work left to do