Vox staff predictions for 2026: What to expect next year
For the seventh year in a row, the Future Perfect staff — plus assorted other experts from around Vox — ...
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The 19 predictions that came true in 2025 — and the 4 that didn’t
It’s that time of year again.Every January 1, the Future Perfect team makes forecasts for the events we think will ...
The 10 most read stories on Future Perfect in 2025
As Future Perfect has in past years, we’re spending this holiday season rounding up our most-read stories of 2025 — ...
9 actually good things that happened to animals this year
The world we’ve built is an unrelentingly cruel one for animals. By 2025’s end, millions of animals will have been ...
The meat industry is sabotaging one of modern medicine’s greatest miracles
Around a decade ago, the US implemented new rules to limit the widespread use of antibiotics in meat and dairy ...
The race to stop octopus farming before it starts
Last year, California and Washington state banned farming octopuses for their meat, and bills have been introduced in seven other ...
How America broke the turkey
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on November 22, 2023, and reflects events that took place that year. We’re ...
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
Today, tens of millions of Americans will partake in a national ritual many of us say we don’t especially enjoy ...
What happened when America’s biggest meat companies got called out for greenwashing
Some of the world’s biggest meat companies are finally facing a degree of accountability for allegedly deceiving the public about ...
The surprisingly profound debate over whether fish feel pain
What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw breath from ...
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