Opinion: It Looks Like Your Doctor and Talks Like Your Doctor. But It’s Not Your Doctor
by Henry Bair
What happens when a doctor has to prove their own face and voice are real?
0:00 / 8:49 · Narrator Sulafat
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2026-07-14
Today's Crosscut
Protecting Human Voice
A poet stammers to keep the state from owning his voice, but as machines learn to mimic the way people talk, those messy, imperfect words are all that keep free citizens from becoming subjects.
‘Doubters Have Saved Mankind’: K Sachidanandan’s Poetic Imagination as a Site of Resistance × The AI Apocalypse is Already Here
0:00 / 1:33:28 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
The American Suburbs Are Better Than You Think
by Noah Smith
Does a house with a yard and a car offer something a city apartment cannot?
0:00 / 17:55 · Narrator Charon
A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
by Tim Golden
How can two neighbors work together if they can’t agree on who the criminals are?
0:00 / 13:44 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Why China Never Captured the Indian Imagination
by Akhilesh Pillalamarri
How can two neighbors trade silk and sugar for two thousand years and still feel like strangers?
0:00 / 12:31 · Narrator Gacrux
For the curious →
How Not to Rise to the Occasion
by Aaron Timms
Why is it so easy to sit on the sidelines when history is moving right past?
0:00 / 11:11 · Narrator Algieba
Small delights →
I’m Cyclosporiasis, the Explosive Diarrhea Parasite, and I’m Pivoting to Music
by Jess Keefe
When a stomach bug finally finds the fame it worked for, what does it do for an encore?
0:00 / 4:44 · Narrator Vindemiatrix