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
Daily edition
2026-08-27
Today's Crosscut
Broken Digital Promises
Early computer scientists warned of an automated dictatorship, but the everyday reality of modern technology is just an exhausting grind of forgotten passwords and broken security codes.
Democracy V the Machine: the Birth of the Digital Age and the Warnings That Were Ignored × Logging in Was Never Supposed to Be This Complicated
0:00 / 44:03 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
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
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
Behind the news →
A Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which It Formed
How do you read the history of an ancient star system from a passing chunk of ice?
0:00 / 10:01 · Narrator Rasalgethi
For the curious →
Opinion: Medical Aid in Dying and the Burden of Choosing to Live
by Monika Piotrowska
If a doctor can help you die, does staying alive become a choice you have to justify?
0:00 / 5:56 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
Smart escape →
For Everything From Troubled Hearts to Lost Keys, Greeks Bake Cakes for a Wish-granting Saint
by Theodora Tongas and Derek Gatopoulos
How does a homemade orange cake become a prayer for the things you have lost?
0:00 / 6:26 · Narrator Sulafat
Finding Friends, Legacy, and Leather Sluts at New Jersey’s Finest Holiday Inn
by Sophie Abromowitz
How do you build a lasting history in a hotel that resets the moment you leave?
0:00 / 41:09 · Narrator Sulafat