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Future Perfect

Future Perfect

Finding the best ways to do good.

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Why an Air Force colonel — and many other experts — are so worried about the existential risk of AI

By Kelsey Piper

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The Aubrey Plaza ad for Big Dairy that may have violated federal law, explained

By Kenny Torrella

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Future Perfect, explained

By Dylan Matthews

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Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war

By Bryan Walsh

One of the world’s most controversial philosophers explains himself

By Dylan Matthews

UN numbers say meat is bad for the climate. The reality is worse.

By Sophie Kevany

A message just arrived from outer space. Can you decode it?

By Sigal Samuel

Can you safely build something that may kill you?

By Kelsey Piper

Why immigration policy is so inhumane

By Kelsey Piper

The psychedelic renaissance is at risk of missing the bigger picture

By Oshan Jarow
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Half the world is at risk of dengue. Why is there no universal way to prevent it?

By Rachel DuRose

Undercover audio of a Tyson employee reveals “free-range” chicken is meaningless

By Kenny Torrella and Marina Bolotnikova

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Prop 12 is a win against factory farming. But the pigs’ lives will still suck.

By Justin Marceau and Doug Kysar

The trillion-dollar coin scheme, explained by the guy who invented it

By Dylan Matthews

Eat more beans. Please.

By Julieta Cardenas

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is somehow the best animal rights movie of the year

By Bryan Walsh

How a warming planet — and a graying population — could keep inflation high for years

By Matthew C. Klein
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The Future of Meat

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Don’t let AI fears of the future overshadow present-day causes

By Kelsey Piper

At the Kentucky Derby, horses are worked to death for human vanity

By Brian Kateman

The nationalist dark side of Joe Biden’s climate policies

By Dylan Matthews

Please don’t turn to ChatGPT for moral advice. Yet.

By Sigal Samuel

Mind-reading technology has arrived

By Sigal Samuel

Why the world should celebrate Smallpox Eradication Day

By Kelsey Piper

How “enlightened selfishness” can lead to a more fulfilling marriage

By Sean Illing

Save the male chicks

By Kenny Torrella

Will having the world’s biggest population make this the “Indian Century”?

By Bryan Walsh

The blithe cruelty of the GOP push for Medicaid work requirements

By Dylan Matthews

Can a 50-year-old treaty still keep the world safe from the changing threat of bioweapons?

By Jen Kirby

What could actually kill us all?

By Kelsey Piper

One big idea that could prevent thousands of gun deaths

By Rachel DuRose

Bringing back woolly mammoths and dodos is a bad idea

By Dayton Martindale

How new vaccine technologies could reduce the massive death toll from malaria

By Kelsey Piper and Rachel DuRose

The US foreign aid budget could do a lot more good. This House bill wants to force it to.

By Dylan Matthews

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few? 

By Bryan Walsh

Why we should run elite college admissions like a lottery

By Bryan Walsh

Let’s talk about the biggest cause of the West’s water crisis

By Kenny Torrella

Lab-grown blood could (one day, maybe) save your life

By Marion Renault

Were the Impossible and Beyond burgers a fad, or is plant-based meat here to stay?

By Kenny Torrella

A fire killed 18,000 cows in Texas. It’s a horrifyingly normal disaster.

By Marina Bolotnikova, Kenny Torrella, and 1 more

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Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check

By Sigal Samuel

The one number that determines how today’s policies will affect our grandchildren

By Kelsey Piper