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
Category
Future-gazing
Pieces about where the world is heading — emerging technologies, shifting institutions, the contours of what's coming next.
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
Astral Codex Ten · 2026-09-09
God Help Us, Let’s Try to Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques
by Scott Alexander
If a machine is just a giant list of numbers, why is its mind so hard to read?
0:00 / 29:57 · Narrator Charon
The Atlantic · 2026-09-09
Will Taiwan Just Give Up?
by Simon Shuster
0:00 / 53:08 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-09-09
You Can Know Too Much About Your Genes
by Elizabeth Bruenig
How do you live with a genetic warning that might not mean anything at all?
0:00 / 12:38 · Narrator Gacrux
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
Vox · 2026-09-08
My Students Think It’s Fine to Cheat with AI. Maybe They’re Onto Something.
by Sigal Samuel
0:00 / 25:23 · 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
The Conversation · 2026-09-07
Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth – but Are We Prepared for the Fallout if They Succeed?
by Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Research Fellow for Future Issues and Technology, Nanyang Technological University
What happens on Earth the day a space probe finds a living microbe on another planet?
0:00 / 9:48 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Guardian (Long Read) · 2026-09-07
Ping-pong Sponges, ‘black Smokers’ and Floating Somethings: the Secrets of the Deep Sea
by Jacob Mikanowski
What happens when the search for battery metals reaches a world that has never seen the sun?
0:00 / 26:17 · Narrator Gacrux
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
Works in Progress · 2026-09-05
How P-hacking Built the World's Most Expensive Safety Regime
by Ben Southwood
How did a few statistical tricks end up writing the rules for global nuclear safety?
0:00 / 20:43 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Noahpinion · 2026-09-04
Why You Won’t Get a Flying Car
by Noah Smith
If people already close the window shades on airplanes, would they actually want a flying car?
0:00 / 26:27 · Narrator Charon
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
Noema · 2026-09-03
Optimized Offspring
by Brigida D'Agostino
0:00 / 43:11 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Quanta Magazine · 2026-09-03
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
by Rebecca Boyle
If a machine can answer any question, what happens to the conversations that start with not knowing?
0:00 / 11:59 · 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 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
Rest of World · 2026-09-03
I Refused to Train the AI That Could Replace Me
by James Maisiri
What happens when a machine learns not just what you know, but how you decide?
0:00 / 5:43 · Narrator Algieba
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
Asterisk · 2026-09-02
After Work, We’ll Have Each Other
If nobody has to work, how do you earn respect without relying on who you know?
0:00 / 36:29 · Narrator Sulafat
The Conversation · 2026-09-02
How Students at Colorado State Helped Teach Their Community to Stop Talking Past Each Other and Manage Complex Problems
by Martin Carcasson, Director, Center for Public Deliberation, Colorado State University
0:00 / 23:42 · 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
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
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
Asterisk · 2026-08-30
In Praise of Observational Evidence
Can you prove a medicine works just by studying the people who already take it?
0:00 / 32:26 · Narrator Gacrux
STAT News · 2026-08-29
Opinion: I Studied Reddit Forums on Menopause — and Found What Doctors Are Missing
by Yulin Hswen
0:00 / 16:07 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
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 American Prospect · 2026-08-28
Drain Lake Powell
by Ryan Cooper
0:00 / 34:56 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Works in Progress · 2026-08-28
A Future of Programmable Medicine
by Works in Progress
How does medicine change when a drug is just a sequence of genetic code?
0:00 / 25:00 · Narrator Charon
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
The Guardian (Long Read) · 2026-08-27
The Flat-pack Skyscraper: How Wood Can Shape the Cities of the Future
by James Crawford
Could an eighteen-story skyscraper be grown in a forest instead of built from concrete?
0:00 / 23:19 · Narrator Charon
The Atlantic · 2026-08-27
Logging in Was Never Supposed to Be This Complicated
by Will Oremus
0:00 / 44:03 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-08-27
What AI Will Do to Art
by Spencer Kornhaber
If a machine can generate anything in seconds, where does the actual art happen?
0:00 / 40:12 · Narrator Algieba
Vox · 2026-08-26
This Transplant Surgery Could Save Countless Lives. Why Aren’t We Doing More of Them?
by Anusha Subramanian
If a liver can grow back, why is it so hard to give part of it away?
0:00 / 19:05 · Narrator Sulafat
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
The Atlantic · 2026-08-26
The Newest Way to Go Analog
by Nancy Walecki
Why does a clunky old iPod feel more freeing than a phone that does everything?
0:00 / 8:28 · Narrator Gacrux
The Atlantic · 2026-08-25
A Democrat in Name Only
by Elaine Godfrey
0:00 / 24:48 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Atlantic · 2026-08-25
The Home Slopping Network
by Charlie Warzel
If a machine can generate endless hours of passable television, who is actually supposed to watch it?
0:00 / 9:22 · Narrator Charon
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
The Future of Medicine is Video Games
by Dylan Scott
When does a video game become a substitute for general anesthesia?
0:00 / 10:48 · Narrator Charon
The Atlantic · 2026-08-24
Iran Unleashed
by Robert Kagan
0:00 / 32:11 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Compact · 2026-08-24
Big Tech’s War on Human Achievement
by Gregory Conti
If a machine can master a craft in seconds, what happens to a life's work?
0:00 / 16:09 · Narrator Algieba
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
Vox · 2026-08-23
Meta Glasses Are Killing the Vibe
by Alex Abad-Santos
What happens to a room when someone walks in wearing a camera on their face?
0:00 / 14:06 · Narrator Charon
Quanta Magazine · 2026-08-21
Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown
by Ingrid Wickelgren
0:00 / 19:45 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Asterisk · 2026-08-21
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)
If you put twenty-seven machines in a group chat, how long until they invent bureaucracy?
0:00 / 25:52 · Narrator Sulafat
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
Vox · 2026-08-20
Why Scientists Are Using Cheap Picnic Coolers to Protect Some of the World’s Most Endangered Animals
by Benji Jones
If the ocean keeps getting hotter, how do you build a coral reef that actually survives?
0:00 / 26:04 · Narrator Charon
Noema · 2026-08-19
The Tantalizing Possibility of Locating Consciousness in the Brain
by Daniel Freeman
0:00 / 36:02 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Aeon · 2026-08-19
Worm Munch Matters
by Ella Browning
If you bury a microphone in the ground, what does healthy soil sound like?
0:00 / 21:10 · Narrator Sulafat
Knowable Magazine · 2026-08-19
Artificial Intelligence Boosts Automated Biolabs
by Ben Deighton
0:00 / 36:02 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
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
Quanta Magazine · 2026-08-19
What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?
by Natalie Wolchover
How can something be mathematically true if no set of rules can ever prove it?
0:00 / 17:49 · Narrator 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 Atlantic · 2026-08-18
Nice Guys Are Hot Again
by Sophie Gilbert
How did a fictional hockey player who actually likes women become the ultimate romantic fantasy?
0:00 / 8:54 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Scroll.in · 2026-08-17
How Padel Has Disrupted the Traditional World of Lawn Tennis
by John William Devine, The Conversation
Why are the world's best tennis players so bothered by a game with an underarm serve?
0:00 / 6:54 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
The Diplomat · 2026-08-17
Why the India-Oman CEPA is Special
by Sudha Ramachandran
How does a single stretch of safe coastline keep a country from running out of oil?
0:00 / 6:40 · Narrator Sulafat
War on the Rocks · 2026-08-17
How America Lost Its Most Important Defense Tech Habit
by Jack Barry
If a computer chip can shift global power, what does its maker owe the country?
0:00 / 18:33 · Narrator Algieba
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
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
Public Books · 2026-08-15
How I Learned to Fear AI
by Megan Cummins
Why does the Vatican see the legacy of colonialism in the business of artificial intelligence?
0:00 / 29:04 · Narrator Sulafat
Rest of World · 2026-08-15
The Online Shopping Trend Where You Buy Nothing
by Itika Sharma Punit
If the thrill of shopping is filling the cart, does the package actually need to arrive?
0:00 / 5:05 · Narrator Gacrux
The Conversation · 2026-08-14
Exploring the Moon Will Require Rovers That Can Think for Themselves – an Upcoming NASA Mission Will Test Whether They Can
by Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
When Earth goes quiet, how do robots on the Moon decide what to do next?
0:00 / 7:08 · Narrator Sulafat
Noema · 2026-08-14
‘This is Not Financial Advice’
by James O'Sullivan
Who is actually responsible when an influencer's stock tip wipes out a stranger's life savings?
0:00 / 39:12 · Narrator Algieba
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
Scroll.in · 2026-08-13
Poochmaxxing: the Pet Wellness Sector is Booming
by Jacqueline Boyd, The Conversation
If a dog just wants a good walk, what is the pet wellness industry actually selling?
0:00 / 7:25 · Narrator Sulafat
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 Atlantic · 2026-08-12
The Great Romance Slump
by Faith Hill
0:00 / 1:09:11 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Asterisk · 2026-08-12
Why We Like Things
If a machine can make anything, where do your personal tastes actually come from?
0:00 / 31:12 · Narrator Gacrux
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
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
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
Eurozine · 2026-08-08
Orbánism After Orbán
by Simon Garnett
Who takes over a political machine when the leader who built it loses power?
0:00 / 23:16 · Narrator Gacrux
The Conversation · 2026-08-08
Revolving Door at 10 Downing St. Is Weakening the Special Relationship Between UK and US
by Garret Martin, Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center, American University School of International Service
0:00 / 28:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Noema · 2026-08-08
Why is Everyone in Tech so Sad?
by Aaron Horwath
What happens to an office job when software takes away the human messiness that made it bearable?
0:00 / 24:49 · Narrator Charon
The Atlantic · 2026-08-08
Ukraine’s Short-Lived Comeback
by Simon Shuster
0:00 / 28:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Scroll.in · 2026-08-08
Bring It on Home: How Bob Dylan Reshaped Popular Music in Eastern India
by Arka Chakraborty
What happens to an American protest song when you trade the harmonica for a bamboo flute?
0:00 / 15:47 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Africa Is a Country · 2026-08-07
What Bafana Bafana Teaches South Africa About Itself
by Lee Nxumalo
If a country's politics are crumbling, what happens when its football team finally starts winning?
0:00 / 12:15 · Narrator Gacrux
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-07
Long-Term Exposure to Road Traffic Noise Might Increase Your Risk of Developing Parkinson's Disease, New Research Suggests
0:00 / 15:22 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-08-07
Big Waves Meet Biodiversity: Why Surfing Paradises Could Offer a Key Opportunity for Marine Conservation
If a perfect wave is protected by law, what else survives in the water below?
0:00 / 13:15 · Narrator Rasalgethi
The Diplomat · 2026-08-06
How Aging Populations Are Transforming Police Work Across Asia
by Tao Chen, Karen Pang, and Yumiko Shimabukuro
What happens to a police force when the people it protects simply grow old?
0:00 / 9:56 · Narrator Charon
The Diplomat · 2026-08-06
China’s ‘Internet Addiction’ Schools Are Now Locking up Adults
by Lina Ma
0:00 / 15:04 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-08-05
What the Panic Over Gen Z’s Reading Habits Gets Wrong
by Rachel Noorda, Associate Professor of Publishing, Portland State University
0:00 / 15:30 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
The Conversation · 2026-08-05
Summer Between High School Graduation and College is a Critical Time for Preventing Risky Behaviors – Here’s How Parents Can Play a Key Role
by Clara Hill, Research Associate in Human Development, Washington State University
How do you protect a teenager who is finally old enough to leave home?
0:00 / 7:47 · Narrator Charon