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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Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
While better data is needed to understand just how wide the gap is, help doesn’t have to wait.
The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.
The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy, lengthening an already decades-long journey to medicalize the psychedelic.
The end of psychedelic prohibition will have to wait a little while longer.
Your morality isn’t as stable as you might think.
Being an only child doesn’t mess you up for life. We promise.
Ovaries age faster than the rest of the body. Figuring out how to slow menopause might help all of us age better.
A short history of effective animal advocacy.
The meat industry took away your food options and made activists the enemy. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The plant-based protein movement goes to Washington.
The nonprofit is a punchline. It’s also forced the world to face factory farming, animal cruelty, and our own hypocrisy.
People of color are more likely to be vegan. But the animal rights movement still has a white face.
Vegans are the dissenters in society’s war on animals.
The fight against the meat industry has been rocky. Can it be won?
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
Organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund are laundering Big Meat’s propaganda. At what cost?
The bill may be coming due for Silicon Valley’s huge investment in AI.
Music production is getting easier. Does that make it better?
Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.
The International Rescue Committee’s David Miliband on Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and the dangers of a “flammable world.”
When vultures died off in India, people died too.
Now isn’t the time to stop funding key public health programs.
How America’s ever-widening highways are built on a lie.
Buffett’s decision to put his money into a foundation controlled by his kids is a mistake.
We know how to build AI models, but not why they work. Neuroscience could be the key.
No, it isn’t a devious Democratic plan to destroy startups.
Americans are more socially isolated than ever. Here’s how we can reconnect.
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
A new report outlines policy options for who gets to sell psychedelics, and who gets to buy them.
You have the right to opt out of facial recognition tech. Here’s how.
Lawns aren’t natural, so why do so many Americans have one?
Too many Americans can’t find a doctor. Michael Bloomberg is donating $1 billion to Johns Hopkins to try to change that.
For Amazon workers, the bevy of sales reinforces the human toll of “same-day delivery, lifetime of injury.”
The world population could peak in your lifetime.