The Atlantic · 2026-10-25
The Two Kinds of American Patriotism
by Gal Beckerman
If a country is always a work in progress, how do you actually love it?
0:00 / 13:56 · Narrator Charon
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Just Security · 2026-10-25
The Moral Cost of Killing on Command
by Heather Aliano
When the military livestreams a firing squad, what happens to the soldiers ordered to be there?
0:00 / 9:21 · Narrator Gacrux
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-10-24
Green Sea Turtles Are Making a Remarkable Comeback on the Remote Aldabra Atoll and Around the World. But Their Recovery is Far From Complete
If a sea turtle only thrives on an empty beach, what does a global recovery actually mean?
0:00 / 11:27 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Scroll.in · 2026-10-23
India and Pakistan Have Forgotten the Most Enduring Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Sushant Singh
When does firing missiles at a nuclear-armed neighbor start to feel like a safe bet?
0:00 / 12:09 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-10-22
Did China Overestimate the Geopolitical Returns of Its Latin America Strategy?
by Juan Fernando Herrera Ramos
Does building another country's roads and railways actually buy a say in its future?
0:00 / 9:45 · Narrator Gacrux
The Diplomat · 2026-10-22
Democracy is Not Silence Between Elections
by Nabeel Kolothumthodi
0:00 / 20:33 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-22
Indian Gen Z ‘cockroach’ Protesters Aim to Upend Assumptions About Democracy – and Populism – in Modi’s India
by Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science, and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
0:00 / 20:33 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-10-22
Are Men to Blame for the Birth-Rate Collapse?
by Marc Novicoff
If men are taking on more of the housework, why do birth rates keep falling?
0:00 / 12:39 · Narrator Algieba
Vox · 2026-10-21
How Pakistan Became Trump’s Most Surprising Ally
by Joshua Keating
How did Pakistan become the only country that can get Washington and Tehran in the same room?
0:00 / 12:02 · Narrator Gacrux
STAT News · 2026-10-21
Opinion: I Was a Theranos Whistleblower. In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes is Still Lying
by Tyler Shultz
How do you film a documentary about someone who never stops performing?
0:00 / 11:00 · Narrator Charon
The Independent · 2026-10-20
No Black-footed Ferrets Found in Meeteetse, 40 Years After a Rescue Saved the Species
by Mike Koshmrl
0:00 / 19:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-20
Who Should Have a Say in Which Species Are Saved? The California Condor Offers Lessons for a Global Biodiversity Treaty
by David Ginsburg, Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
0:00 / 19:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-20
More Protein in Your Breakfast or Snacks Won’t Give You More Muscle Without More Work – a Biologist Separates the Science From the Marketing
by Linda M. Boland, Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
If muscles only grow when you lift something heavy, what is that protein bar actually doing?
0:00 / 10:36 · Narrator Gacrux
Quanta Magazine · 2026-10-19
AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
by Konstantin Kakaes
If a machine solves a 160-year-old math problem, does it count before a human understands the proof?
0:00 / 11:33 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The UnPopulist · 2026-10-19
How to Hold Authoritarians Accountable Without Fueling a Backlash
0:00 / 26:26 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Just Security · 2026-10-19
Foreign Interference and the Democratic Self-Defense Trap: a European Perspective Going Into the 2026 Midterms
by Michael John-Hopkins
0:00 / 26:26 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-18
Why People Keep Looking for Noah’s Ark in a Natural Rock Formation in Turkey: a Scholar of Early Christianity Explains
by Eric Vanden Eykel, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Ferrum College
0:00 / 16:56 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Noahpinion · 2026-10-18
A Nobel for New Keynesian Macro, at Last!
by Noah Smith
How do you steer an economy when the people inside it anticipate your every move?
0:00 / 18:59 · Narrator Algieba
Just Security · 2026-10-18
The Mythos of Digital Sovereignty
by Bulelani Jili
If a country has to rent its digital defenses from a tech company, who is actually in charge?
0:00 / 15:08 · Narrator Sulafat
The Atlantic · 2026-10-17
American Christians Face a Choice
by Peter Wehner
What happens to a faith when its believers decide they need a warrior instead of a servant?
0:00 / 24:34 · Narrator Charon
The Conversation · 2026-10-17
I’m a Physicist Who Worked on the Nobel-winning Neutrino Search – Here’s How a Cubic Kilometer of Antarctic Ice Became a Telescope for Ghost Particles From Space
by Tyce DeYoung, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
0:00 / 25:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Noema · 2026-10-17
When the Present Eats the Future
by Nathan Gardels
How does a free society build the next century when its economy only rewards the present?
0:00 / 10:53 · Narrator Algieba
Defector · 2026-10-17
What Messi Means
by Billy Haisley
How does watching a stranger play a game end up changing the course of your life?
0:00 / 20:11 · Narrator Rasalgethi
STAT News · 2026-10-17
As White House Shifts Focus Toward AI and Tech, U.S. Science Leaders Defend Role of the American University
by Megan Molteni
If the government gives its science budget to tech companies, who pays for curiosity?
0:00 / 8:37 · Narrator Gacrux
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-10-16
One Weather Forecast Changed the Course of WWII. Here's the Real Story Behind 'Pressure,' a Drama About the Meteorologist Who Convinced the Allies to Delay D-Day
How do you launch the largest invasion in history when the meteorologists can't agree on the weather?
0:00 / 20:30 · Narrator Gacrux
Vox · 2026-10-16
Why Your Health Insurance is Dropping GLP-1 Coverage
by Dylan Scott
0:00 / 21:10 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Africa Is a Country · 2026-10-16
Forward, but for Whom?
by Afolabi Adekaiyaoja
When a continent holds the most votes in world football, what does it trade them for?
0:00 / 12:43 · Narrator Sulafat
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-10-15
Did Industrialization Gut Our Microbiomes? A New Study on Rural Foraging Communities in South America and Africa Hints the Answer is Yes
0:00 / 19:33 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Just Security · 2026-10-15
How Generative AI is Scaling Transnational Repression
by Kate Pundyk
How does an AI turn an exile's digital life into a map for hunting them across borders?
0:00 / 14:33 · Narrator Gacrux
War on the Rocks · 2026-10-13
How Taiwan Activates Beijing’s Chosen Fear
by Charles Edward Gehrke
Why would a nuclear superpower risk a war over a three-thousand-year-old story?
0:00 / 29:14 · Narrator Charon
Just Security · 2026-10-13
Boots Off Ballots: Troops and Elections, in Practice
by Dan Herman
0:00 / 22:25 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-13
I’ve Been Studying Election Integrity for 26 Years, and Here’s Why I Expect a Normal Election This November Instead of Chaos
by Justin Levitt, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
0:00 / 22:25 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-10-12
Researchers May Have Directly Glimpsed an Exoplanet’s Magnetic Field for the First Time, Building Hope of Peering Deeper Into Faraway Worlds
0:00 / 19:05 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-12
Physics Nobel Highlights Antarctica’s Role in Exploring the Cosmos
by Jean de Pomereu, Research Affiliate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
0:00 / 19:05 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Scroll.in · 2026-10-11
Infections Are Causing Cancer, Finds New Research
by John (Eddie) La Marca, The Conversation
0:00 / 16:18 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
McSweeney's Internet Tendency · 2026-10-10
An Open Letter to Cornell University From the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
by Anaïs Godard
0:00 / 15:27 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Vox · 2026-10-10
Is This the Cure for Alzheimer’s?
by Dylan Scott
Could connecting a lymph node to a vein actually reverse years of memory loss?
0:00 / 11:11 · Narrator Charon
The Conversation · 2026-10-10
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Stories May Shift Over Time – a Psychologist Explains Why It Doesn’t Mean They’re Lying
by Michele Patterson Ford, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
0:00 / 15:27 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-10-08
The Promises the Afghanistan War Left Behind
by Zahra Rahimi
0:00 / 23:44 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Asterisk · 2026-10-08
What Will Happen to Indian IT?
If a machine can write code and answer phones, what happens to the world's back office?
0:00 / 27:38 · Narrator Charon
Just Security · 2026-10-08
The 9/11 Military Commission and Lessons of Recent History
by Benjamin R. Farley
0:00 / 23:44 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Astral Codex Ten · 2026-10-07
An Open Letter to Steven Pinker on AI
by Scott Alexander
Why would a lifelong defender of human progress laugh off the risks of artificial intelligence?
0:00 / 1:07:00 · Narrator Charon
Quanta Magazine · 2026-10-07
As AI Closed in on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines
by Ben Brubaker
0:00 / 27:58 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-06
Why Making Americans Bet with Cash Could Protect People From Gambling Problems
by Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
0:00 / 21:03 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Vox · 2026-10-06
America’s Tallest, Most Spectacular Trees Are Getting…heat Stroke?
by Neel Dhanesha
What happens to a thousand-year-old tree when it gets too hot to breathe?
0:00 / 8:42 · Narrator Gacrux
ProPublica · 2026-10-06
Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned.
0:00 / 21:03 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Scroll.in · 2026-10-06
How Dreaded Dacoit Phoolan Devi Became an Irresistible Legend
by Nandini Ramnath
How does a terrified teenager become a legendary outlaw before anyone has even seen her face?
0:00 / 23:46 · Narrator Gacrux
STAT News · 2026-10-06
Opinion: I’m a Doctor. Here’s What I Want the Public to Know About AI Tools and Health Care Costs
by Leah Pierson
How can a doctor tell the exact truth and still inflate a hospital bill?
0:00 / 12:04 · Narrator Sulafat
Africa Is a Country · 2026-10-06
What Replaced the Slave Trade?
by Joshua W.J. Brown
When people are no longer bought and sold, what is the price of controlling where they move?
0:00 / 11:51 · Narrator Charon
Slow Boring · 2026-10-06
Who Lost Afghanistan?
by Matthew Yglesias
Did America lose the war in Afghanistan the moment it decided to invade Iraq?
0:00 / 14:30 · Narrator Algieba
War on the Rocks · 2026-10-05
The AI-Assisted Strategic Own Goal in the Kill Chain
by Dan Summers
If a machine picks a target in seconds, who decides if the strike is actually wise?
0:00 / 17:02 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Hindu · 2026-10-05
Scientists at IAV, Keralam Develop Dengue Early Warning System to Forecast Trends
0:00 / 23:31 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-10-04
Scientists Say the Human Brain Might Be Made of Two Distinct Nervous Systems That Got Squished Together
0:00 / 20:12 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-10-04
What Was the Biggest Dinosaur? Fragmentary Fossils Make It Hard to Tell
Why are the biggest dinosaurs the hardest ones to find in one piece?
0:00 / 11:04 · Narrator Gacrux
Noema · 2026-10-03
Return of the Repressed in Germany
by Nathan Gardels
When a country tries to bury its past, where does the need for a homeland actually go?
0:00 / 16:17 · Narrator Charon
STAT News · 2026-10-03
Opinion: I Treated Heat Stroke at the NYC Marathon. Marathons Need to Prepare for a Climate-changed World
by Vibhu Krishna
0:00 / 15:57 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-10-03
As Private Equity, Politics and Prediction Markets Reshape Sports, is the Press Box up to the Task?
by Alex Volonte, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Journalism Studies, University of Florida
Who follows the money when a sports team becomes a billion-dollar investment?
0:00 / 10:21 · Narrator Rasalgethi
The Atlantic · 2026-10-02
190 Days Without a Homicide
by Jenisha Watts
0:00 / 14:17 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-10-02
The Other Victims of a Wrongful Conviction
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
When an innocent man leaves prison, what happens to the family who spent decades fighting his release?
0:00 / 35:07 · Narrator Gacrux
The Conversation · 2026-10-01
Cholesterol Control Gets Personalized – a Cardiologist Explains How New Guidelines Tailor Treatment to Your Unique Risk Profile
by William Cornwell, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz
0:00 / 27:36 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-10-01
Is More Protein Always Better? Despite the Craze Around the Nutrient, Research-Backed Evidence About Its Benefits is Complicated
0:00 / 27:36 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Just Security · 2026-09-30
Boots Off Ballots: the Law
by Dan Herman
0:00 / 29:59 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Guardian (Long Read) · 2026-09-30
The Long Shadow of Argentina’s Dictatorship: She Wasn’t Who She Thought She Was – Neither Was Her Father | Meaghan Beatley
by Meaghan Beatley
How do you go on loving the war criminal who stole you as a baby?
0:00 / 33:27 · Narrator Algieba
Defector · 2026-09-30
Chamique Holdsclaw Made Headlines, Made Mistakes, and Made History
by Nina Mandell
What happens when a basketball star's greatest comeback never shows up in the box score?
0:00 / 12:08 · Narrator Sulafat
STAT News · 2026-09-29
She’s Spent Two Decades Talking to Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate Their Children. Here’s What She’s Learned
by Nicholas Florko
When did vaccinating a child become just another consumer choice for a careful parent?
0:00 / 11:50 · Narrator Charon
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-09-29
Alcohol-Related Cancer Deaths Have More Than Doubled in the United States Over the Past 30 Years, Study Suggests
0:00 / 41:07 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
War on the Rocks · 2026-09-28
The Gulf Arab States Need a Shield Built for Limited Trust
by Mohammed Alotaibi
How do you build a shared military shield with neighbors you don't actually trust?
0:00 / 24:25 · Narrator Charon
Asterisk · 2026-09-28
How Zambia Approved an HIV Drug in 12 Days
0:00 / 45:36 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-09-28
The Militarization of Outer Space: Chinese Infrastructure in the Global South
by Ana Soliz de Stange
How do satellite antennas in Argentina and Namibia change who controls the future of space?
0:00 / 9:44 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Africa Is a Country · 2026-09-27
Who Gets to Speak for Eritrea?
by Michal Petros
Who gets to speak for a country when the people still living there are silenced?
0:00 / 14:43 · Narrator Gacrux
Scroll.in · 2026-09-27
The Mughal Emperor Who Tried to Merge Vedanta with Islam
by Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi
Why would an emperor crawl into a cave to learn that his empire is an illusion?
0:00 / 9:37 · Narrator Algieba
The Atlantic · 2026-09-27
When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering
by Elizabeth Bruenig
Why are mothers getting arrested for giving their children the same freedom they had growing up?
0:00 / 7:36 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-09-27
Why AI Has Trouble Predicting the Fury of Hurricane Intensity
by Chanh Kieu, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Indiana University
If a hurricane is naturally chaotic, can a machine ever predict how strong it will get?
0:00 / 8:07 · Narrator Sulafat
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-09-26
At a Pivotal Moment of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass Delivered a Speech That Reframed What Was at Stake if Slavery Stood
How do you turn a war to save a nation into a war to remake it?
0:00 / 10:39 · Narrator Gacrux
The Diplomat · 2026-09-25
Long Night Over Hualien: the China Threat Through the Eyes of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples
by Rafael Baptista
How do you prepare for the next invasion when you're still living under the last one?
0:00 / 10:48 · Narrator Charon
The Independent · 2026-09-25
Benin Bets on Turning Its Cotton Crop Into Clothes at Home
by Rodney Muhumuza
0:00 / 24:20 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Africa Is a Country · 2026-09-25
Too Big to Regulate
by Ayoola Babalola
0:00 / 24:20 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Noema · 2026-09-24
Let the People Set the Pace of Frontier AI
by Hélène Landemore
If the people building artificial intelligence are asking to slow down, why are they still racing?
0:00 / 19:52 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Defector · 2026-09-24
José Mourinho Gives Real Madrid Exactly What It Paid For
by Luis Paez-Pumar
Why would a football team actually need a manager who makes everything about himself?
0:00 / 8:45 · Narrator Rasalgethi
The Atlantic · 2026-09-24
A New Generation of Moms Who Get High
by Sarah Levy
If a mother gets high to stay patient with her kids, is she really being present?
0:00 / 12:43 · Narrator Gacrux
Africa Is a Country · 2026-09-23
What Europe’s Migration Deals Are Really Buying
by Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde
What happens when a country is paid to become someone else's border?
0:00 / 17:01 · Narrator Sulafat
STAT News · 2026-09-23
Opinion: the Science on Relieving Cancer Symptoms is Clear. Why Isn’t Insurance Paying?
by Lorenzo Cohen
If doctors know how to ease the daily toll of cancer, why is relief still a luxury?
0:00 / 10:11 · Narrator Charon
Defector · 2026-09-22
Diabolical Motherhood
by Emily C. Hughes
Why is a woman asking for an abortion the scariest scene in a movie about the Antichrist?
0:00 / 23:28 · Narrator Sulafat
Construction Physics · 2026-09-22
US Subways Build Too Many Cross Passages
by Brian Potter
If European subways are just as safe, why do American ones need twice as many escape tunnels?
0:00 / 13:21 · Narrator Charon
The UnPopulist · 2026-09-21
Protecting the Republic When an Angel Isn’t in the Oval Office
0:00 / 1:30:42 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Quanta Magazine · 2026-09-21
Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
by Ben Brubaker
If a mathematical proof is physically impossible to write down, is it still a proof?
0:00 / 13:42 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Bulwark · 2026-09-21
The Death of Reading Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
by Cathy Young
If a nation of readers can still fall for a dictator, what exactly does reading protect?
0:00 / 21:29 · Narrator Gacrux
The Diplomat · 2026-09-21
Will Southeast Asia Actually Benefit From Its AI Boom?
by Gerald Mako
What does a country actually gain from hosting the massive physical machines that run AI?
0:00 / 12:39 · Narrator Algieba
STAT News · 2026-09-20
The Pediatricians Who Take in Vaccine-skeptical Parents Others Won’t
by Eric Boodman
If a parent refuses to vaccinate their child, what happens when the doctor refuses to turn them away?
0:00 / 21:10 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-09-20
Asia’s Migrant Workers Need Protection From Gulf Wars
by Md Obaidullah
0:00 / 19:54 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The American Prospect · 2026-09-20
The New Majority Makers
by David Dayen
If a district is evenly split, does a candidate actually have to run as a moderate?
0:00 / 40:47 · Narrator Algieba
Works in Progress · 2026-09-19
Why Housing Reforms Keep Failing
by Works in Progress
If forcing a neighborhood to accept new housing backfires, what makes the neighbors finally say yes?
0:00 / 28:39 · Narrator Gacrux
Quanta Magazine · 2026-09-19
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’
by Charlie Wood
0:00 / 41:54 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Eurozine · 2026-09-19
Greening and Blueing
by Sarah Waring
What happens when a city tears up the concrete and lets the rain soak in?
0:00 / 19:44 · Narrator Algieba
ProPublica · 2026-09-19
What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms
by Teddy Amenabar
What does it take for a piece of mail to actually become a counted vote?
0:00 / 10:57 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Project Syndicate · 2026-09-18
Building a Resilient Nepal
by Gordon Brown
0:00 / 22:15 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-09-18
Who is to Blame for the Massive Death Toll in the Nepal Floods?
by Manju Telor
0:00 / 22:15 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Rest of World · 2026-09-18
Big Tech, Big Cons: Scammers Are Hiding in the Apps That Make Your Life Easy
by Soumya Gupta
When did a search result become the only background check you need before handing over your money?
0:00 / 10:10 · Narrator Sulafat
Africa Is a Country · 2026-09-17
Roaches in Revolt
by Sushovan Dhar
Why does a leaked exam spark a revolt when years of unemployment cannot?
0:00 / 15:47 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Independent · 2026-09-17
In Parts of Africa, Rainmakers Face Cruel Violence by Farmers as Climate Change Vexes Many
by Rodney Muhumuza and Joseph Falzetta
0:00 / 17:44 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix