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The misleading government statistic that distorts food and farming policy, explained.
China’s engineers vs. America’s lawyers.
A very Future Perfect newsletter mailbag.
From picking a career to picking a spouse, one radical philosophical idea will guide you.
The metaverse didn’t stick. Can “superintelligence”?
Here’s how this African country is winning the fight against childhood HIV.
AI in the classroom doesn’t have to be a catastrophe.
The dark side of Fairlife — and America’s protein craze.
What new research on guaranteed income means — and doesn’t.
Dairy farms are among the most dangerous workplaces. Why aren’t they regulated like it?
Trump’s new fee will make the USAID cuts look like a rounding error in some countries.
Cash transfers can save lives. Just not very cost-effectively.
The wonky math of “meat offsets,” explained.
Science says that even moderate drinking is bad for you — and Americans are listening.
This deal has everything: Semiconductors, DeepSeek, constitutional violations.
A century-old optical illusion launched a space race.
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are placing big, divergent bets on the future of meat. Who will win?
AI will undoubtedly shape the next 25 years. We just don’t know how yet.
Nostalgia is lying to you about how good things were.
AI wrote a sacred text for Buddhists — and it exceeded expectations. Can it write a good Bible?
Why focusing only on what’s broken blinds us to what’s fixable.
This doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing.
A growing number of thinkers say factory farming can help save the planet. Are they right?
We were promised flying cars. We got Instagram brain rot.
When curing disease is bad for the federal budget.
The cutting-edge of neurotech can read your mind. Sort of.
Why this obscure survey has life-or-death stakes, and what its future could look like.
Eighty years after Hiroshima, the idea that nuclear war can be controlled is making a comeback.
Global fur production has collapsed. Here’s how it happened.
The US decimated foreign aid budgets. These nations are doubling theirs.
Natural disasters may cost more money, but they claim far fewer lives than in decades past.
What journalism can change — and what it can’t.
Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.
The Jeffrey Epstein story has swallowed the country whole.
What chimp research can teach us about AI’s ability to “scheme.“
What won’t Trump blame on California?
The chaos of Trump’s global health cuts make the human toll near-impossible to calculate. That’s by design.
The commonsense, zero-cost fix that Congress wouldn’t touch.
Medical devices in the brain are already making a difference for countless patients.
You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?