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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One of humanity’s biggest achievements may be slipping away.
The world is aging out of killing one another.
An investigation reveals how the company behind the White House turkey pardon — and the rest of the industry — really treats its birds.
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
How doctors learned to stop childhood food allergies.
How underwater factory farms are reshaping our food system.
“Setting boundaries” is broken — but there’s a different way to think about caring for yourself and others.
Why the Trump administration is cutting out a country that needs it most.
The meat industry’s climate accountability moment is here.
We can never prove that other animals are conscious. What do we do with that?
Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive.
The “pharmacy of the world” needs to reinvent itself.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: On the ground.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: Movers and Shakers.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Innovators.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Thinkers
These women save countless lives every year. We need more of them.
CEO Alexander Berger on how the funder’s second act aims to show that effective giving can scale up
Why Iran’s capital is running out of water — and why it won’t be the last.
Resistance to exploitative AI starts with building a movement.
New data shows foreign PhD enrollment remains steady, but the risks to America’s foreign talent pipeline are growing.
If you don’t want a synthesized AI voice outliving you, get a lawyer now.
The particular cruelty behind farming America’s favorite fish.
Four questions about the Sudanese civil war, answered.
We’ve forgotten how radical household appliances are.
The end of pandemics is within reach. Why aren’t we acting like it?
Space dogs paved the way for human astronauts. Was it worth it?
An obscure health insurance alternative is seeing tremendous growth. But there’s a catch.
How to change your mind on the climate’s future, according to data scientist Hannah Ritchie.
The secretive dog experimentation industry is starting to crumble.
The decline of one of America’s biggest health crises, in two charts.
Lab-grown brains don’t have to inspire horror.
You are not going to like where our ancestors got their protein.
That déjà vu you’re feeling? Blame the chicken meat industry.
People in the Caribbean need help now — and for years to come.
AI can help create bioweapons. So can we use AI to create safeguards?
The sports gambling reckoning is finally here.
The overlooked impact of Trump’s tariffs, explained.
The panic over lead in protein powder got the risk totally wrong.