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Future Perfect

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Finding the best ways to do good.

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How effective altruism let Sam Bankman-Fried happen

By Dylan Matthews

Manchin’s permitting reform effort is dead. Biden’s climate agenda could be a casualty.

By Colin Mortimer

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I went to effective altruism’s first post-Sam Bankman-Fried conference. Here’s what I saw.

By Kelsey Piper

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Neuralink shows what happens when you bring “move fast and break things” to animal research

By Kenny Torrella

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Lots of bad science still gets published. Here’s how we can change that.

By Sigal Samuel

The 15 most read Future Perfect stories of 2022

By Bryan Walsh December 27

9 breakthroughs this year that gave us hope for the future

By Izzie Ramirez, Rachel DuRose, and 2 more December 25

Why are American lives getting shorter?

By Siobhan McDonough December 22

The tricky business of putting a dollar value on a human life

By Dylan Matthews December 22

Egg prices are higher than ever. Blame the record-breaking bird flu.

By Kenny Torrella December 20

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By Vox Staff October 15, 2018

Humans finally figured out how to make it rain

By Christina Thornell August 3

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By Vox Staff August 18

Black-footed ferrets!

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The Future of Meat

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The Future Perfect 50

Future Perfect, explained

By Dylan Matthews October 15, 2018

How to eat less meat: A practical guide

By Allison Rockey and Kenny Torrella January 3

ChatGPT has given everyone a glimpse at AI’s astounding progress

By Kelsey Piper December 15

The first lab-grown seafood will be fancy

By Kenny Torrella December 14

How “zero-Covid” changed China — and the world

By Kelsey Piper November 30

Giving Tuesday, explained

By Kelsey Piper November 29

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel November 29

Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel November 29

Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively.

By Dylan Matthews and Sigal Samuel November 29

Poor countries are developing a new paradigm of mental health care. America is taking note.

By Sigal Samuel November 28

AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

By Kelsey Piper November 28

How to make Covid the last pandemic

By Kelsey Piper November 23

How one man quietly stitched the American safety net over four decades

By Dylan Matthews November 22

Will America continue to turn away from vaccines?

By Yasmin Tayag November 22

Sen. Cory Booker has a plan to stop taxpayer bailouts of Big Meat

By Marina Bolotnikova and Kenny Torrella November 22

16 Updates

The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried’s shocking downfall

By Vox Staff November 21

The Highlight

The world to come

Earth’s population passed 8 billion this month — now what? Plus: the rise of an anti-vaccine America, the looming dangers of superintelligent AI, the shifting landscape of higher ed, and more.

By Bryan Walsh and Elbert Ventura November 21

The incredible shrinking future of college

By Kevin Carey November 21

Are 8 billion people too many — or too few?

By Bryan Walsh November 21

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

The midterm culture war over plant-based meat

By Kenny Torrella November 18

FDA approval puts lab-grown meat one step closer to your dinner plate

By Kenny Torrella November 17

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

By Kelsey Piper November 16

Effective altruism gave rise to Sam Bankman-Fried. Now it’s facing a moral reckoning.

By Sigal Samuel November 16

Democrats have to head off another debt ceiling standoff while they still can

By Dylan Matthews November 16

How to slash carbon emissions while growing the economy, in one chart

By Sigal Samuel November 13

Billionaires are a dual-use technology

By Kelsey Piper November 10

Biden’s hugely consequential high-tech export ban on China, explained by an expert

By Michael Bluhm November 5

Malawi scientists have a plan to fight one of their country’s biggest killers

By Kelsey Piper November 3

Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help.

By Christina Thornell November 2

Forget tainted candy: The scariest thing on Halloween is parked in your driveway

By Muizz Akhtar October 31