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
Daily edition
2026-08-16
Today's Crosscut
Weight Loss Drugs
Unregulated beauty salons are handing out slimming injections as a quick cosmetic fix, a dangerous trend that buries the life-saving medical benefits these drugs actually offer.
The Dark Side of the Booming Indian Market for Weight-loss Drugs × Ozempic is Not Just a Weight-loss Story Anymore
0:00 / 27:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
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
For the curious →
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
The Day Hyderabad Celebrated Two Independence Days on August 15, 1947
What did the first Independence Day look like in a city that wasn't free?
0:00 / 5:38 · Narrator Rasalgethi
This Unsung Black Developer Unlocked the Code to Turning a Video Game Console Into a Virtual Living Room Arcade
Who actually figured out how to put video games into cartridges you could swap at home?
0:00 / 6:00 · Narrator Sulafat
Smart escape →
‘I Can Sense Sinatra Enter My Body and Exit My Lungs’: Aboard the Celebrity Impersonators’ Cruise
by Mina Tavakoli
What happens to a celebrity impersonator when the face they borrow starts to age?
0:00 / 30:04 · Narrator Gacrux
Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge is Gone
by Nancy Walecki
When an airplane gets high-speed internet, what happens to the luxury of being unreachable?
0:00 / 8:44 · Narrator Vindemiatrix