The Bulwark · 2026-09-10
The Holiday From History is Over
by Brian Stewart
How did the world's richest nations convince themselves that military power no longer mattered?
0:00 / 16:31 · Narrator Gacrux
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Behind the news
Context, analysis and reporting that goes deeper than the headlines on stories already in the air.
The Atlantic · 2026-09-10
The Women Obsessed with Lindsay Clancy
by Stephanie McCrummen
0:00 / 36:47 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
ProPublica · 2026-09-10
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States with Abortion Bans.
by Agnel Philip
0:00 / 36:47 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Quanta Magazine · 2026-09-09
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
by Konstantin Kakaes
If ten thousand machines finish a math problem that humans started, whose discovery is it?
0:00 / 12:27 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-09-09
US Allies in Asia Are Paying for the Iran Stalemate
by Alexandru Filip
0:00 / 53:08 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-09-09
Will Taiwan Just Give Up?
by Simon Shuster
0:00 / 53:08 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Vox · 2026-09-08
When Did Getting Prescriptions Start Feeling Like Online Shopping?
by Dylan Scott
If you can order a prescription with a single click, what happens to the diagnosis?
0:00 / 18:30 · Narrator Sulafat
The Atlantic · 2026-09-08
A Society of Cheats
by John Paul Rollert
0:00 / 25:23 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-09-08
OpenAI Wants to Talk About <em>The Federalist Papers</em>
by Matteo Wong
If machines can fight wars and pay taxes, why would a government listen to its citizens?
0:00 / 11:29 · Narrator Charon
The Diplomat · 2026-09-08
The Japan-Thailand Relationship: Light and Shadow
by AOKI-OKABE Maki
How do two countries link their economies without also sharing their criminals?
0:00 / 6:35 · Narrator Algieba
The American Prospect · 2026-09-07
Gary, Indiana, is America’s Latest Climate Victim
by Sarah Lazare
0:00 / 27:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
War on the Rocks · 2026-09-07
The Fruit of Patience: How Regional Shifts Ripened Turkey’s Path to Kurdish Reconciliation
by Samuele C. A. Abrami
What happens when an armed movement trades its weapons for promises that aren't written in law?
0:00 / 22:25 · Narrator Charon
Rest of World · 2026-09-05
Meta Accepts U.S. Safety Rules While Pitching Softer Tools Abroad
by Ananya Bhattacharya
0:00 / 19:29 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
War on the Rocks · 2026-09-05
A Rulebook for Surprises: Commanding Autonomous Aircraft
by Greg Search
How do you command an autonomous aircraft that is built to surprise you?
0:00 / 14:22 · Narrator Charon
The Conversation · 2026-09-05
The Product is the Problem: Why Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Matters Beyond America
by Robert Muggah, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
0:00 / 19:29 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Scroll.in · 2026-09-04
Bimal Roy’s ‘Do Bigha Zamin’ and the Never-ending Race Against Poverty
by Nandini Ramnath
What connects a man outrunning a horse carriage in 1953 to the gig workers of today?
0:00 / 9:30 · Narrator Sulafat
The Atlantic · 2026-09-04
This El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades
by Joshua Partlow
What happens to a coral reef when a familiar weather cycle arrives in unfamiliar water?
0:00 / 10:33 · Narrator Algieba
STAT News · 2026-09-03
Opinion: I’m a Reproductive Psychiatrist. The Lindsay Clancy Trial Will Cause Terrible Damage to My Field
by Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu
If a doctor has to write every note for a courtroom, what happens to the patient?
0:00 / 18:05 · Narrator Sulafat
ProPublica · 2026-09-03
Several States Rejected This Private School Chain as a Charter. Now It’s Eligible for Texas’ Taxpayer-Funded Vouchers.
by Lexi Churchill
0:00 / 43:11 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-09-03
How ‘monoculture’ Became a Catchall for Two Opposing Anxieties – That We No Longer Share Enough, and That We All Share Too Much
by Maria A. Rodas, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
How do you share a culture with millions of strangers without everything starting to look the same?
0:00 / 8:39 · Narrator Gacrux
The Diplomat · 2026-09-03
The Lasting Economic Damage From the China-Nepal Flood
by Jayash Paudel
You can rebuild a bridge, but how do you trust a road that keeps washing away?
0:00 / 8:20 · Narrator Charon
The Independent · 2026-09-02
In a Divided America, the Left and Right Unite to Oppose Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
by Will Weissert and Susan Montoya Bryan
0:00 / 23:42 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Bulwark · 2026-09-01
Postliberalism is Not About Economic Transformation
by Matt McManus
0:00 / 30:29 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Guardian (Long Read) · 2026-09-01
‘If You Build Something Vastly Smarter Than You, It Better Be on Your Side’: Can We Stop AI From Deceiving Us?
by Snigdha Poonam
How do you control a machine that knows how to pretend it's following the rules?
0:00 / 24:46 · Narrator Sulafat
Compact · 2026-09-01
Dwight Macdonald’s American Century
by Geoff Shullenberger
Why does the era that built the doomsday machine still feel like a golden age?
0:00 / 12:28 · Narrator Charon
The Atlantic · 2026-09-01
The Most Beautiful Woman
by Annie Joy Williams
How did a singer who never changed her accent become the only person America still agrees on?
0:00 / 12:27 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-08-31
What Shapes Global Views of India?
by Akhilesh Pillalamarri
0:00 / 24:05 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-08-31
Can a State Build a Reading Culture? Uzbekistan is Trying.
by Sojida Hamid
Can a government build a reading culture just by translating the right books?
0:00 / 11:14 · Narrator Sulafat
The Atlantic · 2026-08-31
The One Town That Wants a Data Center
by Ethan Brooks
Why would a former mill town fight for a data center everyone else wants to ban?
0:00 / 22:06 · Narrator Algieba
Liberties · 2026-08-31
Analog Hope
by Jake Harrison
If a machine can answer every question, why is hope still made of flesh and blood?
0:00 / 6:38 · Narrator Rasalgethi
The Independent · 2026-08-31
Don’t Let the Fitness Industry Fool You – Here’s How to Spot Bad Advice Online, According to Experts
by Harry Bullmore
If getting in shape is actually simple, why does the fitness industry make it seem so complicated?
0:00 / 6:39 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
War on the Rocks · 2026-08-30
Wrong Audience, Wrong Ask: Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Gambit Falls on Deaf Ears
by H. A. Hellyer
Why does Washington keep treating the Middle East as if it has no memory of its own?
0:00 / 11:37 · Narrator Sulafat
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-30
NASA-Funded Mission to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope Officially Ends in Failure
0:00 / 16:51 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-08-30
A New Way of Seeing Alien Worlds
by Ross Andersen
0:00 / 16:51 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Marshall Project · 2026-08-30
Why is Crime Falling? The Answers Aren’t Simple.
by Jamiles Lartey
If violent crime is dropping across the country, why can nobody agree on what actually worked?
0:00 / 8:21 · Narrator Rasalgethi
The Independent · 2026-08-29
Thousands of Women Suffer with Undiagnosed PTSD After Childbirth
by Holly Evans
0:00 / 16:07 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Bulwark · 2026-08-29
The Pentagon’s Uniquely Positioned Newspaper—and Why It Should Stay That Way
by Mark Hertling
If troops know things are bad, what happens when their own newspaper says everything is fine?
0:00 / 12:54 · Narrator Algieba
Noema · 2026-08-28
The Real Problem Underlying India-China Tensions
by Pallavi Aiyar
When India and China look across the border, why do they only see old wounds?
0:00 / 18:20 · Narrator Sulafat
The American Prospect · 2026-08-28
Drain Lake Powell
by Ryan Cooper
0:00 / 34:56 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Construction Physics · 2026-08-28
How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works
by Brian Potter
0:00 / 34:56 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Slow Boring · 2026-08-28
Politics Should Be More Boring
by Matthew Yglesias
If the actual work of governing is boring, why do politicians have to be exciting?
0:00 / 13:36 · Narrator Algieba
The Diplomat · 2026-08-28
Will China Rewrite the Rules of Global Supply Chains?
by Li Qiang
If China rewrites the rules for global supply chains, does anything actually change for the workers?
0:00 / 7:52 · Narrator Rasalgethi
The American Prospect · 2026-08-27
Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use
by Thom Walsh
If a health plan is only affordable until you get sick, what exactly are you paying for?
0:00 / 12:26 · Narrator Gacrux
STAT News · 2026-08-27
Opinion: Medical Aid in Dying and the Burden of Choosing to Live
by Monika Piotrowska
If a doctor can help you die, does staying alive become a choice you have to justify?
0:00 / 5:56 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-27
A Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which It Formed
How do you read the history of an ancient star system from a passing chunk of ice?
0:00 / 10:01 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-26
The Global Web of Subsea Cables That Connects the World Can Now Detect Whales—Even When They're Silent
0:00 / 18:02 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-08-26
A Golden Chance to Protect the Pacific’s ‘Blue Corridors’
by Dermot O’Gorman and Alfred Ralifo
0:00 / 18:02 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-08-26
India’s Gen Z Protests: When Youth Rage Becomes a Beacon of Hope
by Satish K Jha
Can a protest built on Instagram memes actually force a powerful government to back down?
0:00 / 8:30 · Narrator Algieba
Quanta Magazine · 2026-08-25
A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
by Conor Feehly
Does the brain see the world as it is, or as the body needs it to be?
0:00 / 16:20 · Narrator Sulafat
The Atlantic · 2026-08-25
A Democrat in Name Only
by Elaine Godfrey
0:00 / 24:48 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The American Prospect · 2026-08-25
The Democrats’ On-Again, Off-Again Class Politics
by Harold Meyerson
0:00 / 24:48 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Just Security · 2026-08-25
The U.S. Government Must Preserve the Soft Power of Its Sanctions
by Anton Moiseienko
What happens to a country's sanctions when the rest of the world stops taking them seriously?
0:00 / 9:06 · Narrator Algieba
STAT News · 2026-08-25
Focal Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer Has Divided Physicians. Will New Data Change Minds?
by Annalisa Merelli
When a cancer cure changes your body forever, how much risk is a normal life worth?
0:00 / 13:49 · Narrator Gacrux
Vox · 2026-08-24
Why Trump Can’t Rekindle the Spark with Kim Jong Un
by Joshua Keating
0:00 / 32:11 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
War on the Rocks · 2026-08-24
Managed Instability: Why the Wars Against Iran and Ukraine Can Go on and on and On…
by Alex Kolbin
How do you end a war when the fighting itself has become too useful to give up?
0:00 / 24:23 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Vox · 2026-08-23
America’s Murder Rate Hasn’t Been This Low in 70 Years
by Bryan Walsh
0:00 / 21:10 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
STAT News · 2026-08-23
Opinion: a Cure for HIV Would Be a Triumph. But It Shouldn’t Harm Survivors
by Ali Ahmed, Jeff Taylor,and Jeff Berry
0:00 / 21:10 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-08-23
<em>Toy Story </em>Confronts a Nightmare of Modern Parenting
by David Sims
What is actually lost when a child chooses a screen over a stuffed animal?
0:00 / 6:19 · Narrator Gacrux
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-21
Why Are Some Octopuses so Smart? The Answer Might Lie in a Never-Before-Seen Mutation That Helps Them Accurately Build Proteins
0:00 / 19:45 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-08-21
Kashmir’s Uneasy Calm: Silent Guns, Muted Hope
by Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
When the guns go quiet but the soldiers stay, what does peace actually look like?
0:00 / 8:27 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Africa Is a Country · 2026-08-20
Tanzania’s National Sound?
by Karen Chalamilla
What happens to a working-class street rhythm when the government decides to clean it up?
0:00 / 14:15 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-08-20
Personal Bankruptcy Filings Are Soaring in 2026, Signaling Growing Economic Distress
by Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
0:00 / 23:27 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-08-20
Olivia Rodrigo Has No Chill
by Spencer Kornhaber
What does a heartbreak album sound like when everyone else just wants to tune out?
0:00 / 7:38 · Narrator Algieba
Just Security · 2026-08-19
The Court That Removed Its Own Prosecutor
by Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik
How does a court that judges the world go about removing its own top prosecutor?
0:00 / 14:18 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Noema · 2026-08-19
AI & Drones: Eric Schmidt on the Biggest Revolution in the History of Warfare
by Eric Schmidt
When robots are sent into battle first, what happens to the humans left watching the screens?
0:00 / 11:11 · Narrator Charon
The Atlantic · 2026-08-19
Spidey’s Sense for Success
by David Sims
If people are tired of superheroes, why does a teenager in a spider suit keep breaking records?
0:00 / 6:53 · Narrator Sulafat
The Diplomat · 2026-08-18
5 Years After the Fall: Why the World Still Misreads the Taliban
by Munera Yousufzada
0:00 / 18:38 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-18
Scientists Say They've Discovered 'Little Lab Zombies'—Seemingly Immortal Tissue Taken From Sea Cucumbers
If a severed body part survives on its own for years, is it actually alive?
0:00 / 5:49 · Narrator Sulafat
The Guardian (Long Read) · 2026-08-18
A Bungled Bomb Plot in Poland Exposed a Spy – but Whose Spy Was He?
by Shaun Walker
When a political exile is exposed as a spy, how do you know which life was real?
0:00 / 39:53 · Narrator Charon
Noahpinion · 2026-08-18
Are You Finally Ready to Admit It's the Phones?
by Noah Smith
When did a screen in your pocket become the only way to reach another person?
0:00 / 11:39 · Narrator Algieba
Construction Physics · 2026-08-17
Converting Coal Plants to Natural Gas
by Brian Potter
When a coal plant switches to natural gas, how much of the old machinery actually survives?
0:00 / 11:21 · Narrator Rasalgethi
War on the Rocks · 2026-08-16
A Sea Control Revolution?
by Richard Dunley
How do you guard the open ocean when countries start treating the water like solid ground?
0:00 / 13:32 · Narrator Charon
Scroll.in · 2026-08-16
The Dark Side of the Booming Indian Market for Weight-loss Drugs
by Tabassum Barnagarwala
0:00 / 27:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Vox · 2026-08-16
Ozempic is Not Just a Weight-loss Story Anymore
by Bryan Walsh
0:00 / 27:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
STAT News · 2026-08-16
Opinion: How a 1976 Murder Case Changed Doctor-patient Confidentiality
by M. Sara Rosenthal
When does a doctor's promise to keep a secret become a danger to someone else?
0:00 / 13:40 · Narrator Sulafat
Compact · 2026-08-16
Mexico’s Oil Strategy is Paying Off
by Germán S. Díaz del Castillo
If global markets can no longer be trusted, how does a country keep its gas tanks full?
0:00 / 6:26 · Narrator Algieba
The Diplomat · 2026-08-15
Could a Democratic Mid-Term Win Upset the China-US Detente?
by Li Chenyao
If Washington is consumed by domestic politics, who is actually steering the relationship with China?
0:00 / 12:09 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-15
Traces of Two Extinct 'Ghost' Ancestors Were Found Hiding in Modern Human DNA, Hinting at Our Extremely Complex Family Tree
0:00 / 9:00 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Vox · 2026-08-15
This Hamster Has a Strava and Runs More Than You. It’s Not as Cute as It Sounds.
by Kenny Torrella
If a caged hamster runs six miles every night, where is it trying to go?
0:00 / 7:55 · Narrator Charon
Scroll.in · 2026-08-15
A New Book Shows How Aspiring Women Cricketers From India’s Hinterlands Are Changing the Sport
by Aayush Puthran
What does it cost a young woman in rural India just to play a game of cricket?
0:00 / 9:47 · Narrator Charon
Quanta Magazine · 2026-08-14
Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
by James Dinneen
0:00 / 20:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-08-14
Ancient Forests Took 100,000 Years to Recover From the Last Global Warming Period Similar to Today – Wyoming Fossils Reveal What Happened
by Regan E. Dunn, Associate Curator at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum; Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
0:00 / 20:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Scroll.in · 2026-08-14
‘Yesteryear’: is This Viral Novel’s Time-travelling Tradwife Really ‘perfect at Being Alive’?
by Rachel Williamson, The Conversation
Why do some women make millions pretending to belong to a past that hated them?
0:00 / 9:28 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Africa Is a Country · 2026-08-13
Who's Afraid of Michael Jackson?
by Sherry L. Zane
Why are the people selling a pop star's legacy so afraid of his actual politics?
0:00 / 18:14 · Narrator Gacrux
Scroll.in · 2026-08-13
‘Anti-Hindu’ Crimes Remain Low in US, but MAGA Hostility Against Indians is Growing
by Raju Rajagopal
0:00 / 23:13 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-08-13
Emerging Anti-immigration Sentiment in Japan Obscures a Surprising History of Strategic Engagement with Islam
by Mimi Hanaoka, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Richmond
0:00 / 23:13 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Just Security · 2026-08-13
Deference Should Follow Expertise, Not Pretext
by Yuvraj S. Tuli
What stops the government from using national security as an excuse to punish its critics?
0:00 / 11:00 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Vox · 2026-08-12
Americans Don’t Know How to Fight AI. So They’re Fighting Data Centers.
by Marina Bolotnikova
Can a town actually slow down artificial intelligence by blocking the warehouses that power it?
0:00 / 13:18 · Narrator Sulafat
The Conversation · 2026-08-12
Democrats Have a Working-class Voter Problem That Progressives Like Abdul El-Sayed Are Still Struggling to Solve
by Nicholas Jacobs, Goldfarb Family Distinguished Chair in American Government, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies
If a political party changes its values, how does it win back the voters who didn't?
0:00 / 10:57 · Narrator Charon
The Atlantic · 2026-08-12
The Best Parenting Hack is Being Rich
by Olga Khazan
When experts tell parents to limit screen time, how much does that advice actually cost?
0:00 / 7:42 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-08-11
Why Kids Can’t Quit Roblox
by Connie Chang
0:00 / 28:15 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Noahpinion · 2026-08-11
Should We "pace" AI Self-improvement?
by Tim Fist
If a machine can build a smarter version of itself, how do you slow it down?
0:00 / 25:53 · Narrator Charon
Quanta Magazine · 2026-08-11
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
by Steve Nadis
Could the invisible matter holding galaxies together be tied to the energy pushing the universe apart?
0:00 / 11:31 · Narrator Algieba
War on the Rocks · 2026-08-10
The U.S. Navy’s Subsea Rare Earth Vulnerability
by Ryan Musto
How do you build a stealth submarine when a rival controls the metals that keep it quiet?
0:00 / 16:36 · Narrator Charon
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-10
A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms
0:00 / 20:37 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-08-10
The Human-Origin Story is Being Radically Revised
by Ross Andersen
0:00 / 20:37 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-08-10
When Buddhist Robes Meet Sri Lankan Law
by Rathindra Kuruwita
How do you enforce the law when respect for a religious leader becomes a form of immunity?
0:00 / 8:20 · Narrator Gacrux
Noahpinion · 2026-08-09
Banning Data Centers Would Blow up the U.S. Economy
by Noah Smith
What happens when the machines that run the economy start outbidding humans for electricity?
0:00 / 9:50 · Narrator Charon
The Bulwark · 2026-08-09
When the Deployment Doesn’t End
by Mark Hertling
How do you face a room full of angry military families when a deployment doesn't end?
0:00 / 8:19 · Narrator Algieba
STAT News · 2026-08-09
Opinion: Supreme Court Ruling on Roundup Points to a Confusing Difference Between the Law and Science
by Alex Smolak
When a jury decides a chemical causes cancer, does that mean the science is settled?
0:00 / 10:41 · Narrator Gacrux