Explained: Why an Indian Passport is Not Proof of Citizenship – and No Single Document Is
by KBS Sidhu
If a passport is just a travel document, what actually proves you are a citizen?
0:00 / 19:48 · Narrator Sulafat
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2026-09-16
Today's Crosscut
American Democratic Guardrails
While frustrated voters hope military generals will step in to stop a rogue president, partisan activists are quietly taking over the local county boards that actually control election results.
The Election Deniers’ Long Game × Who Checks the President? Not the Military
0:00 / 53:24 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
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How to Think Like a Hegelian
by Jeffrey Reid
If a thought doesn't stay in the brain, how does it change the physical world?
0:00 / 30:17 · Narrator Algieba
The Myth of Perfect Knowledge
by Carlo Rovelli
How do you perfectly describe the universe when you are standing inside it?
0:00 / 9:07 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up.
by Matt von Hippel
If the new calculations are right, what was actually happening inside the old particle colliders?
0:00 / 12:06 · Narrator Gacrux
Smart escape →
Who Needs Life on Mars When It Has Glacial Spiders?
by Patrick Redford
If nothing lives on Mars, what keeps erupting through the ice at the south pole?
0:00 / 7:23 · Narrator Charon