Future Perfect podcast
Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, fight global warming, and end world poverty to create a more perfect future.
In our new season, hosts Dylan Matthews and Sigal Samuel bring you stories about how the meat we eat affects us all, from the non-human animals to the farmers and factory workers who raise those animals and slaughter them to the environment. And you’ll learn about some potential changes, big and small, that could make the food we eat more sustainable and more humane. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Politics on Eurovision isn’t new. It’s been part of it almost from the start.
Politics on Eurovision isn’t new. It’s been part of it almost from the start.
It’s the latest step in one of the longest-running efforts to save an endangered species.
Meat alternatives are tearing down the idea that eating animals is normal, natural, and necessary.
The latest in Future Perfect podcast
Brazilians on the edge of the Amazon rainforest are working with cattle ranchers — not against them — to save the climate.
One researcher says we are “playing Russian roulette.”
Two scientists explain the public health risks posed by factory farms — and how we might solve the problem.
US chicken plants process 140 birds a minute. The Trump administration thinks that’s too slow.
A “recovering poultry grower” explains why he gave up factory farming.
There’s a paradox on our plates.
Introducing Future Perfect season 3, all about the human cost of factory farming.
Annie Fryman and Leonora Camner join the Future Perfect podcast to explain what the rest of the country can learn from California’s housing struggles.
A conversation with historian Peniel Joseph.
Now is the perfect time to face your fear of mortality. Here’s how.
A conversation about love and suffering in Christianity.
A conversation about Black liberation theology, existentialism, and other philosophies that can help us through these times.
A conversation about solidarity and revolt in Camus’s famous novel.
Muslim mystics believed suffering and solitude can make us better people.
“We’ve been suddenly plunged into an existential crisis, and we’re not a society in general that turns to deep questions of life meaning.”
Black activism and Buddhist mindfulness share a fascinating history — and future.
If we collect more moon rocks, we could unlock secrets about the Earth, the moon, and the solar system.
A school district tried to share rich parents’ donations with poor schools. You will believe what happened next.
Our podcast explores one of the biggest gifts of recent times.
The philanthropist explains why he decided to fund ideas no other donor would touch.
Jaan Tallinn explains why AI alignment is such a crucial problem.
Zombies control many charities. Zombies who are sometimes racist and usually misguided.
Reporter Alexandra Stevenson explains how Diane Hendricks has changed Beloit, Wisconsin.
Diane Hendricks has profoundly shaped Wisconsin, for good and ill.
The Ford and Rockefeller foundations funded “population control” programs that went horrifically awry.
Amanda Hollis-Brusky explains how a student group came to control GOP court nominations.
Judges who went to the seminars were likelier to rule against unions and environmental regulations.
The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.
His libraries didn’t really make up for his brutal factories.
Everything you need to get through the holidays.
A simple guide to choosing a career where you can make an impact.
Ikejime, a more humane method of fish slaughter, explained.
Why some activists think it’s time for fully open borders.
If the world doesn’t get its act together on climate change, this could be our last resort.
Some researchers think putting lithium in our water could save lives.
A North Dakota prison official tries to take a page from Norway.
Here’s why I donated my kidney.
