How ‘Boys Love’ Conquered Asia
by R. Taggart Murphy
How did a Thai show about boys falling in love quietly draw a billion viewers?
0:00 / 26:21 · Narrator Rasalgethi
Daily edition
2026-09-26
Today's Crosscut
Engineering Friendship
Tech startups want to sell friendship as a fast, frictionless product, but building real trust requires the slow, clumsy work of sharing ordinary moments in person.
Friendship is Built Over Time, Through Ordinary Moments – I Teach Lonely College Students to Notice Them × Can You Spend Your Way Out of Loneliness?
0:00 / 23:05 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
At a Pivotal Moment of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass Delivered a Speech That Reframed What Was at Stake if Slavery Stood
How do you turn a war to save a nation into a war to remake it?
0:00 / 10:39 · Narrator Gacrux
For the curious →
Everything in Moderation
by Livia Wood
How did the workers paid to clean up the internet become the stars of psychological thrillers?
0:00 / 26:46 · Narrator Sulafat
Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
by Charlie Wood
If a three-dimensional world can fit on a flat surface, does space actually exist?
0:00 / 19:43 · Narrator Charon
Forgetter
by Brodie Crellin
How does a man who writes the nation's history forget where his first wife is buried?
0:00 / 29:19 · Narrator Algieba
Smart escape →
The Generational Difference in Southern Manners
by Annie Joy Williams
What happens to Southern manners when nobody has the patience for a two-hour conversation?
0:00 / 8:20 · Narrator Sulafat
‘Hope’ Review
by Sonny Bunch
If the chase scenes are perfect, does it matter if the monsters look cheap?
0:00 / 6:28 · Narrator Rasalgethi