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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Grok’s sexualized imagery is entirely predictable — and preventable.
It’s also a contradictory mess.
Trump’s “strike force” against animal abuse, and the conservative movement’s turn toward animal welfare, explained.
New York City’s congestion pricing experiment, explained in one chart.
Fighting hunger can feel impossible. But thanks to new innovations, it’s actually never been cheaper.
The ability to actually change your life is a very modern kind of progress. Here how to make it real in 2026.
Why we should aspire to eat less meat like it’s 2019.
From the state of democracy to the chance of a recession, here’s what could happen in 2026.
The 25 forecasts we made in 2025, revisited.
Giving away your money can feel great, if you do it right.
Five strangers who risked everything to save someone else.
How politics, not parasites, became the biggest threat in the fight against malaria
De-extinction, drinking, and a whole new thing that could end the world.
The US has had a bad track record of building nuclear on time and on budget. But that could change.
The global debt crisis works like your credit card — but much, much worse.
From a CRISPR baby to a closing ozone hole, 5 actually good things from 2025.
It wasn’t all bad in 2025.
Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life.
Less than Americans’ holiday shopping, actually.
Silicon Valley is racing to build a god — without understanding what makes a good one.
No one wants to make it.
You were told you’d change the world. But there’s a better way to think about your potential.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
Love, actually…is a chatbot?
A billionaire’s spiritual guide to letting go — of $19 billion.
The US was making progress on its antibiotics-in-meat problem. Now it’s backsliding.
It’s been a long road to ensure that testing on human subjects is ethical. AI could send us backward.
DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.
You can now place bets on elections, wars, and deportations. Should you?
The affordability crisis is a growth crisis.
The end of fur just got a lot closer.
The historic increase in global child deaths, explained in one chart.
A major seafood company wants to farm octopuses for their meat. Activists and academics say it’s impractical and cruel.
The Dells’ $6 billion gift just legitimized Trump accounts.
Giving — it’s in your blood.
A short history of Giving Tuesday, the international day for giving back.
These are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering.
How to do the most good possible with the money you give.
Supporting groups that work on malaria, lead poisoning, and other health issues can make a big difference with just a little money.
These are eight of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them.