Future Perfect
Finding the best ways to do good. Check out our 2025 Future Perfect 25 list, which presents 25 changemakers who are innovating and implementing ways to keep making progress on global health and development.
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Digital dependence is reshaping our brains. But we can fight it.
The delicious, the decent, and the downright awful plant-based egg substitutes, explained.
How a new asteroid showed Earth’s planetary defense system at work.
All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
The Project 2025 plan called to end “housing-first” policies.
America’s egg industry is starting to address one of its worst problems.
They’re a step in the right direction.
Factory farming’s political and cultural influence, and its sweeping impacts on American life, explained.
Beef is tied to my cultural identity through its complicated history. Could the daughter of a cattle rancher ever let it go?
Relentless negativity won’t build a better world.
The pharmaceutical industry helped build factory farming. Now it’s muddying the debate over meat’s carbon footprint.
X wanted Grok to tell it straight. They didn’t like the result.
The neglected ways climate change is affecting our health, explained by Valley fever.
No, they aren’t a scam.
Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?
Spare bedrooms are America’s next housing market.
I feel intense guilt after getting angry. And if I shrug off that guilt, I worry I’ll become a bad person.
It’s a vital moment for AI policy. DOGE’s mass firings could trash vital expertise.
The best answer — AI has “jagged intelligence” — lies in between hype and skepticism.
Investing in AI safety could help ward off a big threat to humanity.
Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.
Here’s what Trump gets right — and wrong — about the WHO.
OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit is sketchy. Musk’s $97 billion offer shows why.
The more agency we give AI assistants, the scarier they get.
Just ignore the godawful reading of Christianity he used to get there.
All of us will be collateral damage in MAGA’s war on “DEI.”
Exclusive: California has a new plan to put chatbots in their place.
But communities of color face the worst ammonia pollution on the ground, a new study reveals.
The accidental origins of the chicken on your plate, explained.
Making people poorer is still bad — regardless of party.
How Big Meat silences its critics.
Nasal vaccines are more effective and easier to get to the people who need it most.
America is finally seeing fewer drug shortages. But Trump’s tariffs could reverse that progress.
Nuclear guardrails are falling apart — and Donald Trump is about to retake the launch codes.
Tens of thousands of people will die if Trump’s war on USAID continues.
What the hot new Chinese AI product means — and what it doesn’t.
Sowing doubt about vaccines has earned him millions — and could keep paying out.
USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies, agency employees tell Vox.
The DeepSeek saga that’s transforming AI, explained
Are we really 89 seconds away from annihilation?