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The world as your classroom, the finest journalism as your curriculum. Written by humans. Narrated by AI. Every day, you get a selection of handpicked articles from across a spectrum of topics, meant to delight, indulge curiosity and expand your mind. You also get one edition of "Crosscuts" every day, where you get two potentially diverse-seeming articles but with an interesting, even surprising connection. It is intended to show how we can spot connections and patterns in surprising ways. This is journalism that delights, educates and expands our minds. Not the anxiety-inducing cycle of breaking news. For more features and details, visit https://aarva.app/

Episode Date
Crosscut: fear of bold design
Aug 09, 2026
How Do I Direct My Kid To The Stuff They’ll Enjoy And Be Good At?
Aug 09, 2026
Opinion: Supreme Court ruling on Roundup points to a confusing difference between the law and science
Aug 09, 2026
When the Deployment Doesn’t End
Aug 09, 2026
Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds
Aug 09, 2026
Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy
Aug 09, 2026
Crosscut: allies managing trump
Aug 08, 2026
Dulles Forever
Aug 08, 2026
How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution
Aug 08, 2026
The Class Struggle in Your Wallet
Aug 08, 2026
Bring It on Home: How Bob Dylan reshaped popular music in Eastern India
Aug 08, 2026
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
Aug 08, 2026
Orbánism after Orbán
Aug 08, 2026
Crosscut: cities and brain health
Aug 07, 2026
The New Parent Trap
Aug 07, 2026
Feel like a late bloomer? You’re not alone.
Aug 07, 2026
Strategic Attack on Iran: Airpower’s Promises, Limits, and Lessons
Aug 07, 2026
Sasquatch science
Aug 07, 2026
Big Waves Meet Biodiversity: Why Surfing Paradises Could Offer a Key Opportunity for Marine Conservation
Aug 07, 2026
What Bafana Bafana teaches South Africa about itself
Aug 07, 2026
Crosscut: policing adult romance
Aug 06, 2026
Gen Z Is Testing the Limits of How Weird Parties Can Get
Aug 06, 2026
What Are You Banning When You Ban Influencers?
Aug 06, 2026
How Diplomats See the World
Aug 06, 2026
How Aging Populations Are Transforming Police Work Across Asia
Aug 06, 2026
Crosscut: why we buy books
Aug 05, 2026
A Brief History of Hold Music, From Early Patents to the Soundtrack of Customer-Service Purgatory
Aug 05, 2026
How The Death Penalty At 50 Is Far More Broken Than We Knew
Aug 05, 2026
Summer between high school graduation and college is a critical time for preventing risky behaviors – here’s how parents can play a key role
Aug 05, 2026
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis
Aug 05, 2026
Crosscut: why we read
Aug 04, 2026
Which Screen Is the ‘Good Screen’ Now?
Aug 04, 2026
Why we should learn to embrace the middlebrow
Aug 04, 2026
Ceuta: The videos and rumours that sparked sudden deadly surge of migrants into Spain’s enclave
Aug 04, 2026
‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege
Aug 04, 2026
Fences Not F-35s: Drone Attacks and the Illogic of Gulf Procurement
Aug 04, 2026
Crosscut: gen z moviegoing
Aug 03, 2026
The glorious burden of stockpiling little glass jars
Aug 03, 2026
I Love My Emotionally Stunted Friendships
Aug 03, 2026
Democrats don’t get why they’ve lost most working class voters
Aug 03, 2026
North Korea Needs China and Russia – But Doesn’t Want Its People Admiring Them
Aug 03, 2026
How the blind built a place of their own in Ranchi
Aug 03, 2026
Opinion: We lead the Federation of State Medical Boards. Here’s what we think about licensing AI to practice medicine
Aug 03, 2026
Crosscut: unexpected climate collapse
Aug 02, 2026
When Following the Rules Leads to Disaster
Aug 02, 2026
When Germany Built a Flying Train 125 Years Ago, a City Coalesced Beneath It. It Has Moved Royalty, Commuters and Tourists—and One Elephant—Ever Since
Aug 02, 2026
‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend
Aug 02, 2026
Is This What Comes After AI Slop?
Aug 02, 2026
America needs liberal nationalism back
Aug 02, 2026
Crosscut: women claiming space
Aug 01, 2026
Can A Monkey Have A Pet?
Aug 01, 2026
Why your kid is obsessed with squishy toys
Aug 01, 2026
Living with leopards in the Himalayas
Aug 01, 2026
The Route of the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway in Cambridgeshire, England
Aug 01, 2026
Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth
Aug 01, 2026
Why Southeast Asia’s Just Energy Transition Partnerships Have Stalled
Aug 01, 2026
Crosscut: india student protests
Jul 31, 2026
Is She the New Britney Spears—Or the New Lou Reed?
Jul 31, 2026
The enduring legacy of Kashmir’s poet-saints who built bridges between faiths
Jul 31, 2026
This book uncovers how indentured labourers forged independent India’s foreign relations
Jul 31, 2026
What’s the Matter With the Democratic Party?
Jul 31, 2026
Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
Jul 31, 2026
Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?
Jul 31, 2026
Crosscut: ai for life decisions
Jul 30, 2026
Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else
Jul 30, 2026
Is football still capable of scandal?
Jul 30, 2026
The Middle-Income Health Trap
Jul 30, 2026
Counting the Votes in the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Decision
Jul 30, 2026
What ancient art tells us about modern psychedelic medicine
Jul 30, 2026
How A.I. Will Reshape Radiology—Without Replacing Radiologists
Jul 30, 2026
Attention Is a Form of Love
Jul 30, 2026
Crosscut: automating the impossible
Jul 29, 2026
How Cycling Solved Sleep
Jul 29, 2026
Inside the quirky pub empire where phones and swearing are banned – and why landlords want to keep it that way
Jul 29, 2026
Opinion: Ebola outbreak response requires engaging with religious traditions and leaders
Jul 29, 2026
Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine
Jul 29, 2026
Mahasweta Devi at 100: Why her greatest legacy lies in the Adivasi movements she helped build
Jul 29, 2026
Beware the Permanent Periphery
Jul 29, 2026
Crosscut: womens health gaps
Jul 28, 2026
The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou
Jul 28, 2026
On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet
Jul 28, 2026
Public Health Needs MAHA
Jul 28, 2026
Lessons from a high-fertility subculture
Jul 28, 2026
Black teachers improve outcomes for all students, but the profession remains largely white
Jul 28, 2026
Crosscut: the weather driving Europe's fast fires
Jul 28, 2026
Crosscut: borders and science
Jul 27, 2026
The surprisingly undisciplined trick to escaping social media
Jul 27, 2026
How Japanese military officers freely scouted colonial India without raising British suspicion
Jul 27, 2026
The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic
Jul 27, 2026
Don’t turn away from tragedy, but do witness intentionally
Jul 27, 2026
In China, people are renting out their faces to AI
Jul 27, 2026
America At 250 & Beyond
Jul 27, 2026
Crosscut: us war in iran
Jul 26, 2026
Danny McBride Leaves You Wandering
Jul 26, 2026
What a Stray Dog’s Murder Tells us About Chinese Civil Society
Jul 26, 2026
The Doomers Are All Right
Jul 26, 2026
What will more intelligence actually do for us?
Jul 26, 2026
The Dirt That Refused To Die
Jul 26, 2026
Crosscut: math and morals
Jul 25, 2026
The King of Cool: Mobile Refrigeration and the Remaking of Global Logistics
Jul 25, 2026
The Unapologetic Crime Fiction of Colson Whitehead
Jul 25, 2026
When Civilian Infrastructure Becomes a Lawful Target
Jul 25, 2026
Thanatos Rising
Jul 25, 2026
How the Iran war could drive conflicts in countries thousands of miles away
Jul 25, 2026
Crosscut: questioning the experts
Jul 24, 2026
Travelogue: A hermit travels from the Garhwal Himalayas to Mount Kailash and Manas Sarovar in 1898
Jul 24, 2026
The myth of medieval childhood
Jul 24, 2026
The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines
Jul 24, 2026
The Other Elephant
Jul 24, 2026
Crosscut: building physical habits
Jul 23, 2026
The Best Running Shoes You Can’t Get Your Hands On
Jul 23, 2026
Loitering towards war
Jul 23, 2026
When the world stopped moving
Jul 23, 2026
You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Supply Chains!
Jul 23, 2026
New genetic approaches raise hopes for restoring the American chestnut to its former glory
Jul 23, 2026
Australia’s Strategic Ambiguity Is Running Out of Road
Jul 23, 2026
Crosscut: systems in control
Jul 22, 2026
‘No matter how busy a train is, you can always find a quiet space’: Travel writer Monisha Rajesh
Jul 22, 2026
How we learned what genes are made of
Jul 22, 2026
Opinion: My adult daughter has Down syndrome. Her life is entirely different from what experts expected
Jul 22, 2026
My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed
Jul 22, 2026
Could Life Exist on This Nearby World? In a First, Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on an Earth-Like Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone
Jul 22, 2026
Sanctions Gaps and the Governance of Corruption Risk
Jul 22, 2026
Crosscut: death as protest
Jul 21, 2026
I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back
Jul 21, 2026
We Went to a Yacht Party for the Most Pro-Deportation People in DC
Jul 21, 2026
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
Jul 21, 2026
‘She was almost a Batman figure’: Mexico’s avenging Mother Courage
Jul 21, 2026
Crosscut: grazing on public land
Jul 20, 2026
The True History of New England’s Stone Walls
Jul 20, 2026
How to slow down time when life keeps speeding up
Jul 20, 2026
One of the Quietest Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement, Ella Baker Led by Encouraging Everyone to Get Involved
Jul 20, 2026
Beckett the Prophet
Jul 20, 2026
The UK is a cautionary tale for the U.S.
Jul 20, 2026
Crosscut: reading the field
Jul 19, 2026
Why you let down your guard on ads when scrolling on social media
Jul 19, 2026
Meet Torstein Træen, The Stoic Norwegian Survivor Who Briefly Lit Up The Tour de France
Jul 19, 2026
Your daydreams know something you don’t. Look closely
Jul 19, 2026
‘Fractured Communities’ by Umar Khalid: Scholarship meets commitment to marginalised lives
Jul 19, 2026
What we lost when everything became a screen
Jul 19, 2026
Forged in a Knife Fight: China’s Brutal Domestic AI Competition
Jul 19, 2026
Crosscut: militarized state power
Jul 18, 2026
The Lessons About Ebola the U.S. Wants to Forget
Jul 18, 2026
Playing for a Place in the World Through Taiwan’s Baseball Diplomacy
Jul 18, 2026
The problem AI content moderation cannot solve
Jul 18, 2026
Why Am I Left-Handed?
Jul 18, 2026
The Corporal Philosophers
Jul 18, 2026
Crosscut: escaping social limits
Jul 17, 2026
The Ableism of Kings, the Fury of Trump
Jul 17, 2026
Against "Stochastic Terrorism"
Jul 17, 2026
Opinion: Is there a doctor on board? Yes, and airlines depend on it
Jul 17, 2026
What does it mean to be ‘quantum’? A physicist explains the basics behind Einstein’s spooky actions at a distance
Jul 17, 2026
Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage
Jul 17, 2026
Crosscut: saving oral traditions
Jul 16, 2026
How singing with other people can help you move through grief and despair
Jul 16, 2026
A Gujarati Dalit writer reckons with Gandhi’s fraught legacy
Jul 16, 2026
Georgia’s unfinished European journey
Jul 16, 2026
A City Bigger Than a Bomb: Dispatch from Beirut
Jul 16, 2026
Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
Jul 16, 2026
How Do Pigeons Find Their Way Home? New Research Suggests the Birds' Remarkable Navigational Skills Come From Their Livers
Jul 16, 2026
Crosscut: designing for humans
Jul 15, 2026
Punctuation: A Generational Divide
Jul 15, 2026
From the memoir: When Oscar Wilde’s daughter-in-law did ‘Oriental’ makeup for Qurratulain Hyder
Jul 15, 2026
‘Famous Men’ And Ambitious Women
Jul 15, 2026
Farms aren’t nature
Jul 15, 2026
Building a long-term base on the Moon will require extensive planning – a planetary geologist describes the considerations that go into it
Jul 15, 2026
The Road to Space Runs through the Poles
Jul 15, 2026
Crosscut: protecting human voice
Jul 14, 2026
I’m Cyclosporiasis, the Explosive Diarrhea Parasite, and I’m Pivoting to Music
Jul 14, 2026
How Not to Rise to the Occasion
Jul 14, 2026
Why China Never Captured the Indian Imagination
Jul 14, 2026
A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
Jul 14, 2026
Opinion: It looks like your doctor and talks like your doctor. But it’s not your doctor
Jul 14, 2026
The American suburbs are better than you think
Jul 14, 2026
Crosscut: valuing skilled labor
Jul 13, 2026
The Endangered Big Screen Comedy
Jul 13, 2026
Bat in the house? Here’s how to remove it safely
Jul 13, 2026
The forgotten success story of America’s teenagers
Jul 13, 2026
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
Jul 13, 2026
Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it
Jul 13, 2026
How to be defiant
Jul 13, 2026
Crosscut: farming and fossils
Jul 12, 2026
Plato’s Allegory Of The Crab
Jul 12, 2026
Why the Media Keep Quoting the Same Climate Scientist
Jul 12, 2026
Ramachandra Guha: In Mannu Bhandari’s memoir, an unflinching spotlight on Indian patriarchy
Jul 12, 2026
China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power
Jul 12, 2026
What is the World Cup for?
Jul 12, 2026
Crosscut: human limits and extremes
Jul 11, 2026
Events like the World Cup can inspire young athletes and put parents on unfamiliar turf
Jul 11, 2026
Far removed from today’s global juggernaut, soccer was born in the well-heeled boarding schools of 19th-century England
Jul 11, 2026
Opinion: The AI licensure debate is missing the point of licensure
Jul 11, 2026
Could We Mitigate Super El Niños by Artificially Changing the Climate? A New Study Indicates Yes
Jul 11, 2026
Crosscut: the persuasive uncanny
Jul 10, 2026
Why neighbor feuds bring out the absolute worst in us
Jul 10, 2026
The Davis Wing, the B-24 Liberator, and the Self-Made Bet That Paid Off
Jul 10, 2026
The Pentagon Is Too Fixated on China
Jul 10, 2026
Crosscut: proving medical truth
Jul 09, 2026
Gifts, Gritos, And A Breakthrough Win: An Afternoon With The Tour de France’s New And Jubilant Mexican Fanbase
Jul 09, 2026
There’s a Name for the People Who Drain You
Jul 09, 2026
Why Global Press Freedom Rankings Struggle with Singapore
Jul 09, 2026
Alan Lomax Spent Years Traveling the Country to Record the Sounds of America. The Legacy of His Obsession Will Live Forever
Jul 09, 2026
Insurers aren't the main villain of the U.S. health care system
Jul 09, 2026
Crosscut: tech and public interest
Jul 08, 2026
We analyzed paper money printed by Ben Franklin to uncover his anti‑counterfeiting techniques and materials innovations
Jul 08, 2026
China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur
Jul 08, 2026
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
Jul 08, 2026
Does modernisation erase cultural difference – or amplify it?
Jul 08, 2026
Claudia Sheinbaum: the wildly popular Mexican president dealing with drug violence, disappearances and Donald Trump
Jul 08, 2026
Crosscut: american power and myth
Jul 07, 2026
How to actually get to know your neighbors
Jul 07, 2026
Walking through the ruins of French Cameroon
Jul 07, 2026
Opinion: Medicine thinks Gen Z is too soft. It’s wrong
Jul 07, 2026
What Biden Changed About American Foreign Policy
Jul 07, 2026
The “Emotional Economy” of Parenting: A Conversation with Nina Bandelj
Jul 07, 2026
What shape is the Earth?
Jul 07, 2026
Crosscut: narrative and moral clarity
Jul 06, 2026
‘The Final Set’ Tells The Story Of Tennis’ Greatest Rivalry Becoming A Friendship
Jul 06, 2026
Looking Back at Humphrey’s Executor
Jul 06, 2026
Why India Cannot Let the Rupee Float
Jul 06, 2026
Marco Rubio’s Dangerous Diplomacy in Lebanon
Jul 06, 2026
‘My questions were affected by fiction’: Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026), pioneer in microhistory
Jul 06, 2026
A Catholic Security Scholar’s Case for Responsible Military AI
Jul 06, 2026
Crosscut: tectonic movements
Jul 05, 2026
The secrets you shouldn’t keep from your doctor
Jul 05, 2026
Someone Stole a Banana Duct-Taped to the Wall of a French Museum. One of Its Duplicates Fetched More Than $6 Million at Auction
Jul 05, 2026
Maps are powerful political tools shaping a nation’s past, present and future – counter maps allow everyday people to reclaim the narrative
Jul 05, 2026
Oligarchy’s Ancient Origins
Jul 05, 2026
When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration
Jul 05, 2026
Still Radical, Still American
Jul 04, 2026
Crosscut: traditional resilience modern fragility
Jul 04, 2026
What I Learned From ROTC
Jul 04, 2026
Character Matters—for the Other Party
Jul 04, 2026
Opinion: What Ebola and Marburg are teaching us about the next pandemic
Jul 04, 2026
Has Ukraine Turned the Tide?
Jul 04, 2026
Here Comes the Sun
Jul 04, 2026
Healing Sounds Are the Medical Miracle of the 21st Century
Jul 04, 2026
Crosscut: reason and radical freedom
Jul 03, 2026
The king of soccer
Jul 03, 2026
Doodles, boredom, and an intervention on Palestine: Nehru’s notes from the 1955 Bandung Conference
Jul 03, 2026
How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
Jul 03, 2026
Chip Off The Old Block
Jul 03, 2026
Scientists Say They've Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch
Jul 03, 2026
Contriving Imaginary Gaps in Nuclear Deterrence
Jul 03, 2026
Crosscut: india existential stability
Jul 02, 2026
Why The Tour de France Route Is Different Every Single Year
Jul 02, 2026
Should you keep practicing a religion even if you don’t believe?
Jul 02, 2026
Rethinking the ‘Absolute Bar’ on Scheduled Caste Status in India
Jul 02, 2026
Will AI make companies outsource more, or less?
Jul 02, 2026
Privacy isn’t dead – it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
Jul 02, 2026
Illegible benefits
Jul 02, 2026
Crosscut: human presence embodiment
Jun 30, 2026
A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data
Jun 30, 2026
Opinion: ‘The Hot Zone’ led me to work with Ebola patients. Now I have mixed feelings about the book
Jun 30, 2026
The Man Who Saw AI Coming
Jun 30, 2026
Crosscut: citizenship and belonging
Jun 29, 2026
How Tanjia, a Meat Stew Slow-Cooked in Bathhouses, Shaped Marrekesh's Social Life
Jun 29, 2026
Why young men are killing their sperm
Jun 29, 2026
Celebrating from a divided country
Jun 29, 2026
What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings
Jun 29, 2026
Agrivoltaics could feed energy-hungry AI and the world
Jun 29, 2026
Crosscut: autonomy of truth
Jun 28, 2026
Techno tourism in Detroit – what do visitors owe the city that created the music?
Jun 28, 2026
Struggling with creative work doesn’t mean you’re failing
Jun 28, 2026
Afghanistan’s Women: Erased
Jun 28, 2026
What Happens When the Country Loses a General
Jun 28, 2026
There Are Three Types of AI Users
Jun 28, 2026
“Dear Syria … ”
Jun 28, 2026
Crosscut: genetic cancer management
Jun 27, 2026
Inside Mangav, a unique Maharashtra village for abandoned women and their children
Jun 27, 2026
Disneyland With No People
Jun 27, 2026
Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change
Jun 27, 2026
Therapy for billionaires
Jun 27, 2026
Glass Jaw? The New Economic Fragility Recasting American Power
Jun 27, 2026
Crosscut: narratives of truth
Jun 26, 2026
My Manic Pixie Dream Femme Fatale
Jun 26, 2026
How to turn casual friends into close ones
Jun 26, 2026
Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history
Jun 26, 2026
What defines Japan's national identity?
Jun 26, 2026
The World's First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics
Jun 26, 2026
How the Squamish built Senakw
Jun 26, 2026
Crosscut: technically sweet science
Jun 25, 2026
‘Maryam & Son’: A space for small lives and big grief that larger waves of global politics disallow
Jun 25, 2026
Why Beijing Still Fears the Tiananmen Mothers
Jun 25, 2026
Opinion: How I used public radio to recruit 20,000 participants for a peer-reviewed study on walking breaks
Jun 25, 2026
What the Iran War Taught the World About Food Security
Jun 25, 2026
The woman who turned cooking oil into soap in Gaza
Jun 25, 2026
A Diary from the Psychic Capital of the World
Jun 25, 2026
Can Printed 'Skin' Heal Burns and Prevent Scars?
Jun 25, 2026
Crosscut: economic management tools
Jun 24, 2026
What’s The Ideal Target For A Heist?
Jun 24, 2026
Ghosts of summers past
Jun 24, 2026
Is It Warm Out There?
Jun 24, 2026
Two Roads to Fast Clinical Trials, and the US Takes Neither
Jun 24, 2026
ChatGPT probably isn’t conscious. But what if we’re wrong?
Jun 24, 2026
Making Syria’s Transitional Justice Process Meaningful for Survivors and Communities
Jun 24, 2026
Crosscut: ai and contingency
Jun 23, 2026
Ahmedabad plane crash: Families of AI 171 crash victims grapple with flight fears, anxiety
Jun 23, 2026
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote a Work of Fiction That Seemed So Real That It Changed the History of the Country
Jun 23, 2026
Anticolonialism in the age of fragmentation
Jun 23, 2026
Edward Said, My Grandfather, and the Problem of Home
Jun 23, 2026
Upcoming telescopes could shed light on dark matter – astronomers are looking for these ‘fingerprints’ of the elusive substance
Jun 23, 2026
Can ecosystems ‘malfunction’?
Jun 23, 2026
Crosscut: world cup narratives
Jun 22, 2026
The city that rewired my brain
Jun 22, 2026
China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time
Jun 22, 2026
Inside Ukraine’s Battlefield Innovation Loop
Jun 22, 2026
The chipped cup, the service lift and other things I had forgotten about India
Jun 22, 2026
How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math
Jun 22, 2026
Crosscut: biological containment science
Jun 21, 2026
A Close-Up Look at the Waste of Modern Life
Jun 21, 2026
How to pray when you don’t believe in God
Jun 21, 2026
A shared mourning ritual helped an American soldier and an Iraqi interpreter find common ground
Jun 21, 2026
Juneteenth: ‘The Day of Freedom Came’
Jun 21, 2026
What Will the End of the Iran-US War Mean for Pakistan?
Jun 21, 2026
The joy of autism
Jun 21, 2026
Crosscut: animal history and evolution
Jun 20, 2026
These Devoted Dads Across the Animal Kingdom Will Warm Your Heart This Father’s Day
Jun 20, 2026
Misery And Memory In Two Van Goghs
Jun 20, 2026
I'm kind of over the whole "Anti-monopoly" movement
Jun 20, 2026
Leonard Cohen’s Dark Faith
Jun 20, 2026
I Tried to Protect My Oldest Daughter From Pain. I Didn’t Think I Would Be the Source of It.
Jun 20, 2026
Crosscut: documenting the real
Jun 19, 2026
'Cute Little Guy': Scientists Discover a Tiny Blue Species of Octopus by the Galápagos Islands
Jun 19, 2026
What Is Poetry? Chelsey Minnis’s Frying Pan Full of Diamonds
Jun 19, 2026
The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI
Jun 19, 2026
The blood cancer that became solvable
Jun 19, 2026
Crosscut: revisiting behavioral icons
Jun 18, 2026
Rock Chalk Algeria
Jun 18, 2026
What we misunderstand about absent fathers
Jun 18, 2026
The Women Who Don’t Own Clothes
Jun 18, 2026
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Jun 18, 2026
Opinion: I’m an Alzheimer’s specialist. I still missed it in my own father
Jun 18, 2026
Tolstoy and the Illusion of Inevitability
Jun 18, 2026
How will AI make moral decisions for you and me?
Jun 18, 2026
From Pyongyang to Primorsk: When Sanctions Evasion Becomes System Design
Jun 18, 2026
Crosscut: football and national identity
Jun 17, 2026
This Colorful Parrot Had Been Seen Only Once Over the Past Century. Birders Just Rediscovered It in an Unexplored Indonesian Forest
Jun 17, 2026
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)
Jun 17, 2026
Why older people are happier and what we can learn from them
Jun 17, 2026
It’s Hard To Find The Feel-Good Angle Of Alexander Zverev
Jun 17, 2026
Why We Changed Our Code of Ethics to Address Prediction Markets
Jun 17, 2026
How 19th century Goans who arrived in Zanzibar became one of East Africa’s wealthiest communities
Jun 17, 2026
How AI could make wars go nuclear
Jun 17, 2026
My AI Opinions
Jun 17, 2026
By Ruskin Bond: A boy finds a purple stone that glows in the sunlight. But this is no ordinary stone
Jun 11, 2026
Crosscut: ai human systems
Jun 11, 2026
The Americans Shelling Out Five Figures for a Coat of Arms
Jun 11, 2026
Dreaded don to dear grandfather: Actor Bharathiraja’s many faces
Jun 11, 2026
Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist on three factors that make a paranormal experience more likely
Jun 11, 2026
The Economic Path to Climate Justice
Jun 11, 2026
AI ‘Regulation’ in the Chokepoint State
Jun 11, 2026
The Vanishing Library: Timothy Ely’s Odd Little Book from Outer Space
Jun 11, 2026
When Work Moves Without Workers: Nepal and Asia’s New Mobility Frontier
Jun 11, 2026
A staggering reversal of assumptions
Jun 11, 2026
Crosscut: political integrity complexity
Jun 10, 2026
Opinion: Why STAT is sticking with ‘health care’ as two words
Jun 10, 2026
Actually, the SAT Was Necessary After All
Jun 10, 2026
Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required
Jun 10, 2026
In Defense of Difficult Reading
Jun 10, 2026
We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides
Jun 10, 2026
A Market Bubble Led by AI
Jun 10, 2026
Flickering Enlightenment
Jun 10, 2026
Crosscut: conflict norms repression
Jun 09, 2026
In a new book, Stephen Alter writes about discovering monsoon beetles and bugs as a young naturalist
Jun 09, 2026
The Gin and Tonic Is a Cocktail With a Storied History. Don't Overlook Scotland's Connection to the Classic
Jun 09, 2026
Why we crave company
Jun 09, 2026
Not all empires look the same
Jun 09, 2026
To Reach Beyond Ourselves Is Key to Our Survival
Jun 09, 2026
How much more software do we really need?
Jun 09, 2026
How AIs See Our World
Jun 09, 2026
Crosscut: human purpose
Jun 05, 2026
How Japan stopped civil war
Jun 05, 2026
PFAS leave fingerprints in your blood – researchers are figuring out how forever chemicals transform in your body to read these clues
Jun 05, 2026
Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war
Jun 05, 2026
Scientists Made Sourdough Bread With Yeast Found on Ötzi the Iceman’s Mummified Body
Jun 05, 2026
Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley
Jun 05, 2026
What Everyone is Missing About North Korea’s Reunification Strategy
Jun 05, 2026
Crosscut: new paradigms progress
Jun 03, 2026
The Moment I Realized My Career as a Cop Was Over
Jun 03, 2026
Letting friendships die
Jun 03, 2026
The triumph of capital
Jun 03, 2026
Sometimes Stopping Extremism Means Getting Your Hands Dirty
Jun 03, 2026
I asked a billionaire about his environmental philanthropy. It didn’t go well.
Jun 03, 2026
Did Human Ancestors Walk on Their Knuckles Like Today's Chimpanzees? New Research Adds More Evidence to the Debate
Jun 03, 2026
Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
Jun 03, 2026
Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defense Spending Drama
Jun 03, 2026
Crosscut: blind spots of belonging
Jun 02, 2026
Food history: How America (and the world) developed a taste for hot sauce and ‘spicy’ sweets
Jun 01, 2026
NYC is full of undiscovered species — and we’ve hatched a plan to find one
Jun 01, 2026
Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing
Jun 01, 2026
When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive
Jun 01, 2026
Hollywood’s About to Change (Again)
Jun 01, 2026
Control Without Ownership: How China’s Party-Business Networks Dominate Indonesia’s Mineral Supply Chains
Jun 01, 2026
Meet One of the Most Prolific Artists From Prison Music’s Golden Age
May 29, 2026
Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life
May 29, 2026
The Weaponization of GLOMAG: How Rivals Co-opt U.S. Sanctions to Target Business and Political Opponents
May 29, 2026
Should you feel guilty for killing the bugs in your house?
May 29, 2026
Leading in the Dark: How Submarine Commanders Think Under Uncertainty
May 29, 2026
Can ecosystems malfunction?
May 29, 2026
Why raves are such a reliable source of spiritual experience
May 26, 2026
Lawmakers Ask DOJ Watchdog to Investigate Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report
May 26, 2026
Hun Sen Feels the Heat
May 26, 2026
The Lessons of Sacrifice
May 26, 2026
Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
May 26, 2026
Planning for America’s Democratic Renewal Must Start Now: Lessons from Poland
May 26, 2026
What we see when we look into the eyes of a bird
May 24, 2026
To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly
May 24, 2026
Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up
May 24, 2026
New Paradigms Won't Save You
May 24, 2026
Beneath our human shallows
May 24, 2026
Mathematics is out there
May 23, 2026
Gen Z but two centuries ago
May 23, 2026
Make immigration boring
May 23, 2026
Being small
May 23, 2026
To Memorialize the Fallen, Renew the Pursuit of Peace
May 23, 2026
Rights require money
May 23, 2026