The Stories Shaping Africa’s AI Future
by Scott Timcke
In the tech hubs of Nairobi and Addis Ababa, who gets to decide what the future looks like?
0:00 / 12:31 · Narrator Algieba
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2026-07-21
Today's Crosscut
Death as Protest
Mothers in Rio are taking the police to court for killing their sons while activists use their own lives as a final weapon to break a government’s silence.
United by Grief, Mothers in Brazil Demand Reparations After Police Killed Their Sons × A New Book Reflects on Why a Hunger Strike is the Most Culturally Resonant Political Protest
0:00 / 19:34 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
‘She Was Almost a Batman Figure’: Mexico’s Avenging Mother Courage
by Sam Edwards
If a mother uses billboards to hunt her son’s killers, who checks if the crime ever happened?
0:00 / 54:07 · Narrator Gacrux
We Went to a Yacht Party for the Most Pro-Deportation People in DC
by By Samuel Benson
How does a plan to deport millions of people turn into a yacht party on the Potomac?
0:00 / 14:46 · Narrator Charon
Small delights →
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
by Emily Flake
If a viral raccoon could look back at the people watching it, what would it see?
0:00 / 5:02 · Narrator Sulafat