
Kelsey Piper
Senior Writer
Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective-altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges. She explores wide-ranging topics from climate change to artificial intelligence, from vaccine development to factory farms. She’s interested in how to bring prosperity to everyone on Earth, how we fund and conduct science, how to make emerging technologies go well, and how to make sense of the world in confusing, uncertain, and fast-moving times. She writes the Future Perfect newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.
She occasionally tweets at @kelseytuoc and occasionally writes for the quarterly magazine Asterisk.
If you have story ideas, questions, tips, or other info relevant to her work, you can email kelsey.piper@vox.com. She can also accept confidential tips on Signal at 303-261-2769.
Ethics Statement
Future Perfect coverage may include stories about organizations that writers have made personal donations to. This does not in any way affect the editorial independence of our coverage, and this information will be disclosed clearly when relevant.
Future Perfect is supported in part by grants from foundations and individual donors. Future Perfect prizes its editorial independence, and all editorial decisions are made separately from fundraising and commercial considerations. See Vox’s ethics and guidelines for more.
Latest articles by Kelsey Piper


Everyone likes cheap consumer goods that will get more expensive under Trump’s tariffs.


Imagine how much worse things would be if the federal government had even more power than it does now.


Our Covid mistakes did lasting damage. No one wants to talk about it.


But can the rest of us trust it?


All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.


X wanted Grok to tell it straight. They didn’t like the result.


It’s a vital moment for AI policy. DOGE’s mass firings could trash vital expertise.


OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit is sketchy. Musk’s $97 billion offer shows why.


“Can I leave the country, and how can I leave the country?”


Making people poorer is still bad — regardless of party.
Most Popular
- These fluffy white wolves explain everything wrong with bringing back extinct animals
- The world’s biggest animal cruelty problem, explained in one chart
- Trump’s favorite trick is blowing up in his face (and ours)
- Take a mental break with the newest Vox crossword
- How an influencer’s weight loss triggered an internet meltdown