Izzie Ramirez

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Izzie Ramirez

On April Fools’ Day, I called my mom. I told her that for a month, I was “going flip phone” — meaning, abandoning my iPhone for one with no access to social media apps. And no, it wasn’t a joke. My discontent with my screen time reached new peaks in late March after a stint in physical therapy and a string of near-constant rainy days. But first, some context: I stare at screens all day for a living, and I’m no stranger to life affixed to a computer, palm-sized or not.

Feb 28, 2025 | vox.com | Izzie Ramirez

Izzie Ramirez is a deputy editor of Future Perfect, Vox’s section on the myriad challenges and efforts in making the world a better place. She oversees the Future Perfect fellowship program. This is the sixth in a series of stories on how factory farming has shaped the US.

Dec 30, 2024 | vox.com | Izzie Ramirez

Making predictions is a tricky business, and here at Future Perfect, we don’t pretend to have a crystal ball. But we do think there’s real epistemic value in putting our forecasts out there and — just as importantly — owning up to how they turned out. (Something that happens too rarely in the media, as we learned after November’s election.) Looking back at our predictions for 2024, we had a wild ride trying to anticipate a year that threw more than a few curveballs our way.

Nov 28, 2024 | vox.com | Lavanya Ramanathan |Izzie Ramirez

Since the 1980s, Black Friday has signified the kickoff to the holiday shopping season. Stores offered almost-impossible “doorbuster” deals on TVs and hand blenders, shoppers rose before dawn to wait in line to get them, violence ensued, and the tinsel-covered period when retailers finally operated “in the black” began in earnest. It’s probably for the best, then, that Black Friday is not what it was even 20 years ago.

Nov 21, 2024 | vox.com | Izzie Ramirez

José Andrés probably has the best reason ever to cancel an interview. The Michelin-starred celebrity chef and humanitarian is no stranger to feeding people when they need it most. Weeks before our scheduled call on Halloween, Andrés was in a helicopter, delivering food with volunteers from his nonprofit World Central Kitchen to communities affected by the devastating floods in western North Carolina.