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Big Waves Meet Biodiversity: Why Surfing Paradises Could Offer a Key Opportunity for Marine Conservation
Sasquatch science
Strategic Attack on Iran: Airpower’s Promises, Limits, and Lessons
Feel like a late bloomer? You’re not alone.
The New Parent Trap
Crosscut: policing adult romance
How Aging Populations Are Transforming Police Work Across Asia
How Diplomats See the World
What Are You Banning When You Ban Influencers?
Gen Z Is Testing the Limits of How Weird Parties Can Get
Crosscut: why we buy books
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis
Summer between high school graduation and college is a critical time for preventing risky behaviors – here’s how parents can play a key role
How The Death Penalty At 50 Is Far More Broken Than We Knew
A Brief History of Hold Music, From Early Patents to the Soundtrack of Customer-Service Purgatory
Crosscut: why we read
Fences Not F-35s: Drone Attacks and the Illogic of Gulf Procurement
‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege
Ceuta: The videos and rumours that sparked sudden deadly surge of migrants into Spain’s enclave
Why we should learn to embrace the middlebrow
Which Screen Is the ‘Good Screen’ Now?
Crosscut: gen z moviegoing
Opinion: We lead the Federation of State Medical Boards. Here’s what we think about licensing AI to practice medicine
How the blind built a place of their own in Ranchi
North Korea Needs China and Russia – But Doesn’t Want Its People Admiring Them
Democrats don’t get why they’ve lost most working class voters
I Love My Emotionally Stunted Friendships
The glorious burden of stockpiling little glass jars
Crosscut: unexpected climate collapse
America needs liberal nationalism back
Is This What Comes After AI Slop?
‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend
When Germany Built a Flying Train 125 Years Ago, a City Coalesced Beneath It. It Has Moved Royalty, Commuters and Tourists—and One Elephant—Ever Since
When Following the Rules Leads to Disaster
Crosscut: women claiming space
Why Southeast Asia’s Just Energy Transition Partnerships Have Stalled
Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth
The Route of the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway in Cambridgeshire, England
Living with leopards in the Himalayas
Why your kid is obsessed with squishy toys
Can A Monkey Have A Pet?
Crosscut: india student protests
Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?
Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
What’s the Matter With the Democratic Party?
This book uncovers how indentured labourers forged independent India’s foreign relations
The enduring legacy of Kashmir’s poet-saints who built bridges between faiths
Is She the New Britney Spears—Or the New Lou Reed?
Crosscut: ai for life decisions
Attention Is a Form of Love
How A.I. Will Reshape Radiology—Without Replacing Radiologists
What ancient art tells us about modern psychedelic medicine
Counting the Votes in the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Decision
The Middle-Income Health Trap
Is football still capable of scandal?
Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else
Crosscut: automating the impossible
Beware the Permanent Periphery
Mahasweta Devi at 100: Why her greatest legacy lies in the Adivasi movements she helped build
Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine
Opinion: Ebola outbreak response requires engaging with religious traditions and leaders
Inside the quirky pub empire where phones and swearing are banned – and why landlords want to keep it that way
How Cycling Solved Sleep
Crosscut: womens health gaps
Black teachers improve outcomes for all students, but the profession remains largely white
Lessons from a high-fertility subculture
Public Health Needs MAHA
On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet
The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou
Crosscut: the weather driving Europe's fast fires
Crosscut: borders and science
America At 250 & Beyond
In China, people are renting out their faces to AI
Don’t turn away from tragedy, but do witness intentionally
The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic
How Japanese military officers freely scouted colonial India without raising British suspicion
The surprisingly undisciplined trick to escaping social media
Crosscut: us war in iran
The Dirt That Refused To Die
What will more intelligence actually do for us?
The Doomers Are All Right
What a Stray Dog’s Murder Tells us About Chinese Civil Society
Danny McBride Leaves You Wandering
Crosscut: math and morals
How the Iran war could drive conflicts in countries thousands of miles away
Thanatos Rising
When Civilian Infrastructure Becomes a Lawful Target
The Unapologetic Crime Fiction of Colson Whitehead
The King of Cool: Mobile Refrigeration and the Remaking of Global Logistics
Crosscut: questioning the experts
The Other Elephant
The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines
The myth of medieval childhood
Travelogue: A hermit travels from the Garhwal Himalayas to Mount Kailash and Manas Sarovar in 1898
Crosscut: building physical habits
Australia’s Strategic Ambiguity Is Running Out of Road
New genetic approaches raise hopes for restoring the American chestnut to its former glory
You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Supply Chains!
When the world stopped moving
Loitering towards war