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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“If humans are so smart, why are we so stupid?”
Rich people debate washing machines for fun. But for billions of poor people, the debate really matters.
The maker of ChatGPT promised to share its profits with the public. But Sam Altman just sold you out.
The VP candidate loves to snuggle baby animals. He’s giving factory farming a progressive sheen.
On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
How diseases like cancer and diabetes are growing, explained in four charts.
The quest to give effectively feels like it’s turning me into an cold-hearted jerk.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT is better than ever — and more dangerous.
The billionaire philanthropist talks about how the fight for global health lost steam — and how to get it back.
Kidney donors save lives. Why aren’t we compensated for it?
New research sheds light on changing patterns of US giving and volunteering.
A new study argues the long-run benefits outweigh the costs nearly 10 to 1.
Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires.
It’s irrational to be cynical, so why is it becoming more prevalent?
The safety paradox at the heart of OpenAI’s “Strawberry” model.
Scientists are trapped in an endless loop of grant applications. How can we set them free?
Factory-built housing, ADUs, and community land trusts — all at once.
Why the new luxury is flip phones and vinyl LPs
561 research papers in, the case for degrowth is still weak.
It’s not just the Princess of Wales. More and more young people are getting cancer.
We buy stuff. We throw it away. There’s a system to stop this toxic cycle.
Introducing Your Mileage May Vary, an unconventional new advice column.
ChatGPT didn’t write this and I can prove it.
From granola bars to chips, more studies are revealing that UPFs are tied to diseases like cancer and depression.
We don’t need to pit dogs against humans.
Too much fluoride might lower IQ in kids, a new federal report says. The science (and debate), explained.
EVs help reduce greenhouse emissions. But too many used gas-guzzlers could make that impossible.
The US military’s recruiting crisis, explained.
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
Are tech companies actually pushing AI down our throats?
California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
Some tech leaders think SB 1047 will kill innovation. It won’t.
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
Scientific fraud kills people. Should it be illegal?
An early warning system could help fix the dangerous information gap between Big Tech and the US.
My generation was taught to change the system. That lesson came at a cost.
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”
However current companies do financially, the big AI safety challenges remain.