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
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2026-09-02
Today's Crosscut
Bridging Partisan Divides
Whether fighting off a massive AI data center or sitting down with trained student facilitators, divided communities are finding practical ways to bypass national politics and solve local problems.
In a Divided America, the Left and Right Unite to Oppose Artificial Intelligence Data Centers × How Students at Colorado State Helped Teach Their Community to Stop Talking Past Each Other and Manage Complex Problems
0:00 / 23:42 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
For the curious →
Absurd Adventure and Amygdalectomy Advocacy
by Scott Alexander
What happens to your mind when a surgeon cuts out the physical source of fear?
0:00 / 28:32 · Narrator Charon
Mother Teresa Was Virtuous, but She Was Wrong About Virtue
by Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva
When does being kind to the person right in front of you stop being enough?
0:00 / 12:41 · Narrator Gacrux
Smart escape →
‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ at 35
by Sonny Bunch
Does a movie belong to the director who keeps changing it, or the audience who remembers it?
0:00 / 8:59 · Narrator Algieba
This American Commando Parachuted Behind Enemy Lines in Both the European and Pacific Theaters of World War II
What happens to a goodbye letter when the man who wrote it actually comes home?
0:00 / 13:04 · Narrator Vindemiatrix