How to break free of “money dysmorphia” — and 3 other tips on generosity
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The 2025 stories that prove people still run toward danger
One of my favorite books is Larissa MacFarquhar’s Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. The ...
The end of malaria
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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 — ...
This town has 3 nuclear plants. Now, it wants another one.
To find out more about why Oswego is so eager for nuclear — and what would happen next if it’s ...
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 ...
We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both.
The first thing that struck me about this year’s most talked-about policy book, Abundance (perhaps you’ve heard of it?), is ...
The low, low cost of ending extreme poverty
When it comes to fixing the world’s worst problems, it’s easy to pretend that we’re helpless.We tell ourselves that global ...
The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem.
There’s a reason dengue infections are also called “breakbone fever.”Along with a mild fever, symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness include ...
How do you know if you’re wasting your life?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s ...
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