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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A new investigation finds false advertising continues to dupe consumers.
We can fix our staggering car fatality crisis. Start with these roads.
America voted for chaos — but we don’t know what real chaos is. Yet.
If you care about the world, find your community. It isn’t always easy — but it’s worth it.
Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think.
Why the future of artificial intelligence shouldn’t become a partisan issue.
Feeling despair after Trump’s election victory? Viktor Frankl can help.
How a second Trump term could take a wrecking ball to animal welfare.
The limitations of ranked-choice voting.
Donald Trump undermined public health measures during the Covid-19 pandemic. What would he do in a future health emergency?
How can you know if you truly want to be a parent?
It’s a big deal for the climate — and for the coffee industry at large.
How to power through election stress and keep your eye on the big picture.
OpenAI’s transition isn’t what you think. The stakes are tens of billions of dollars — and the future of AI.
These marketplaces are the backbone of the meat industry, where cruelty to animals is the norm.
Is it a problem that people are betting on Trump v. Harris?
Preventing the disease can improve the quality of life for thousands.
A groundbreaking study suggests your farmed shrimp and salmon might have a much bigger environmental toll than previously thought.
The world really is getting better. So why don’t people believe it?
A new book explores the world of tax havens and techno-utopias, and asks if they can be used for good.
Experts think they’ve cracked the code for how to actually convert empty office buildings into affordable housing.
Animal models of autism haven’t helped autistic people enough. So why do scientists still use them?
My faith gave me my moral values. I want my child to have those — without all the stuff I don’t believe in.
AI is here to stay and the Nobels know it.
Did they actually figure out why nations fail?
The 11 policies that could help the cities of the future.
The human mind is designed to predict, but uncertainty helps us thrive.
The public did not consent to artificial general intelligence.
In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
Billions of dollars later, neuroscientists are still struggling to address the mental health crisis.
Rwandan public health officials have a strategy that could help prevent further outbreaks.
I don’t know what I owe my newfound relative.
Whippets on TikTok are just a re-run of inhaling nitrous on stage in the 1800s.
New brain stimulation techniques could help scientists understand how meditation changes the mind.
1.5 million people die from lead exposure a year. This new global partnership could change that.
Factory farming makes hurricanes more dangerous, disgusting, and expensive.
Dr. Gregory Berns on his surprising research on the emotional lives of dogs and cows.
Bacteria-eating viruses might be able to fight antibiotic resistance where new treatments are most needed.
The Georgia chemical plant fire, explained.
SB 1047 would have been a landmark in AI safety. Gavin Newsom’s veto is a major setback in the fight against AI risk